 Absent a self-evident apprehension of God, the two passages appear inexplicable, with Descartes seeming to misunderstand the sceptical implications of his own Evil Genius Doubt. But on the self-evident God interpretation, both passages read as a summary of the anti-sceptical effects of it being impossible to conceive of God as a deceiver. As Descartes writes to Voetius, the very thought of God as a deceiver “implies a conceptual contradiction – that is, it cannot be conceived” (May 1643 letter, AT 8b:60, CSMK 222). The interpretation also makes sense of why the final victory over scepticism is announced not at the end of the Fourth Meditation, but at the end the Fifth – after the further result concerning an enhanced, self-evident apprehension of God.