Gifts And Wickedness

Εἰ οὖν ὑμεῖς πονηροὶ ὄντες οἴδατε δόματα ἀγαθὰ διδόναι τοῖς τέκνοις ὑμῶν, πόσῳ μᾶλλον ὁ πατὴρ ὑμῶν ὁ ἐν τοῖς οὐρανοῖς δώσει ἀγαθὰ τοῖς αἰτοῦσιν αὐτόν.  Δόματα ἀγαθὰ καλεῖ τὰς πνευματικὰς δωρεάς· ὁ δὲ Λουκᾶς Πνευμα ἅγιον εἶπεν ἀντὶ τοῦ εἰπεῖν, ἀγαθά· καὶ οὐδὲν τὸ διάφορον· τὸ γὰρ ἅγιον Πνεῦμα, αὐτὸ ἐστι τὸ φύσει ἀγαθόν· διὸ καὶ τοῖς μετόχοις αὐτοῦ δίδωσιν ἀγαθά· τοὶς δὲ ἅγαν πονηροῖς, διὰ τὸ ανενδότως ἁμαρτάνειν, τρόπον τινὰ φύσις αὐτοῖς ἡ κακία γίνεται· οἶός ἐστιν ὁ Σατανᾶς καὶ οἱ δαίμονες· δονατὸν γὰρ καὶ τούτους φύσει κακοὺς εἰπεῖν, καίπερ μὴ φύσει κακοὺς δημιουργηθέντας, ἀλλ' ἐξ αὐτοπροαιρέτου κακίας ἀπεσκληκότας. Ἅγιος Κύριλλος Ἀλεξανδρείας, Ἐξὴγησις Εἰς Τὸ Κατὰ Ματθαιον Εὐάγγελιον

'If then you who are wicked know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father in heaven give good things to those who ask Him?' 1 By good gifts He speaks of spiritual gifts. And like Luke 2 he speaks of the Holy Spirit when he uses the word 'good', and without confusion, for the Holy Spirit is in his own nature good and thus to those who participate in Him he confers good gifts. But to those who are wicked, that is, unbridled in their sins, wicked things befit them on account of their nature, as it is with Satan and the demons. For one may attribute to these an evil nature, but not that they were created wicked, but rather that by their own wills they passed into wickedness. Saint Cyril of Alexandria, Commentary on Matthew, Fragment 1 Mt 7.11 2 Lk 11.13