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1001 15 | point, added, "and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in
1002 15 | dwelleth in his temple, not the Holy Spirit only, but also
1003 15 | which he standeth as Head of the Church on earth "that in
1004 15 | again."~117 ~Therefore, the temple of God - that is,
1005 15 | temple of God - that is, of the supreme Trinity as a whole -
1006 15 | whole - is holy Church, the ~Universal Church in heaven
1007 15 | Church in heaven and on the earth.~
1008 15 | affirm about that part of the Church in heaven, save that
1009 15 | when "God did not spare ~the sinning angels" - as the
1010 15 | the sinning angels" - as the apostle Peter writes - "
1011 15 | he delivered them into~the prisons of darkness in hell,
1012 15 | hell, to be reserved for the sentence in the Day of Judgment"~118?~
1013 15 | reserved for the sentence in the Day of Judgment"~118?~
1014 15 | are~there in rank among the angels, so that while all
1015 15 | while all are called by the general title "angels" -
1016 15 | angels" - as we~read in the Epistle to the Hebrews, "
1017 15 | we~read in the Epistle to the Hebrews, "But to which of
1018 15 | Hebrews, "But to which of the angels said he at any time, '
1019 15 | powers" [virtutes],~so that the verse, "Praise him all his
1020 15 | powers,"~120 would mean the~same thing as, "Praise him,
1021 15 | distinctions~are implied by the four designations by which
1022 15 | four designations by which the apostle seems to encompass
1023 15 | apostle seems to encompass the entire~heavenly society, "
1024 15 | another question: whether the sun and moon and all the
1025 15 | the sun and moon and all the stars belong to that same
1026 15 | Furthermore, who can explain the kind of bodies in which
1027 15 | kind of bodies in which the angels appeared to men,
1028 15 | certain visions, not to the physical eyes but to the~
1029 15 | the physical eyes but to the~spiritual eyes of the mind,
1030 15 | to the~spiritual eyes of the mind, or speak something,
1031 15 | speak something, not to the ears, as from outside us,
1032 15 | but actually ~from within the human soul, since they are
1033 15 | For, as it is written in the book~of the Prophets: "And
1034 15 | is written in the book~of the Prophets: "And the angel
1035 15 | book~of the Prophets: "And the angel that spoke in me,
1036 15 | through~dreams, as we read in the Gospel: "Behold, the angel
1037 15 | in the Gospel: "Behold, the angel of the Lord appeared
1038 15 | Gospel: "Behold, the angel of the Lord appeared to him in
1039 15 | various modes of presentation, the angels seem to indicate
1040 15 | question: How, then, did the patriarchs~wash the angels'
1041 15 | did the patriarchs~wash the angels' feet?~124 How, also,
1042 15 | did Jacob wrestle with the angel in such a tangible~
1043 15 | as these, and to guess at the answers as one can, is not
1044 15 | speculation, so long as the discussion is moderate and
1045 15 | moderate and one avoids the mistake of those~who think
1046 16 | and Earthly Divisions of the Church~~
1047 16 | For, when he ~deceives the corporeal senses, and does
1048 16 | and does not thereby turn the mind from that true and
1049 16 | judgment by which one leads the life of faith, there is
1050 16 | says things that would fit the character of the good angels,
1051 16 | would fit the character of the good angels, even if~then
1052 16 | then we believe him good, the error is neither dangerous
1053 16 | neither dangerous nor fatal to the Christian faith. But~when,
1054 16 | and preserves them! Yet the very difficulty of~this
1055 16 | this latter is~obviously the best course for us no pious
1056 16 | 61. This part of the Church, therefore, which
1057 16 | therefore, which is composed of the holy angels and powers of~
1058 16 | really is only when, at the end of the age, we are joined
1059 16 | only when, at the end of the age, we are joined to it, ~
1060 16 | with it, eternal bliss. But the other part which, separated
1061 16 | company, wanders through the earth is better known to
1062 16 | like ourselves. This is the part that has been redeemed
1063 16 | redeemed from all sin by the~blood of the sinless Mediator,
1064 16 | all sin by the~blood of the sinless Mediator, and its
1065 16 | Now Christ did not die for the~angels. But still, what
1066 16 | deliverance~from evil was done for the angels also, because by
1067 16 | angels also, because by it the enmity caused by sin between
1068 16 | caused by sin between men and~the angels is removed and friendship
1069 16 | mankind serves to~repair the ruins left by the angelic
1070 16 | repair the ruins left by the angelic apostasy.~
1071 16 | 62. Of course, the holy angels, taught by God -
1072 16 | angels, taught by God - in the eternal contemplation of
1073 16 | blessed - know how many of the human race are required
1074 16 | are required to fill up the full census of ~that commonwealth.
1075 16 | commonwealth. This is why the apostle says "that all things
1076 16 | those in heaven and those on the earth in him."~127 The part
1077 16 | on the earth in him."~127 The part in heaven is indeed
1078 16 | is indeed restored ~when the number lost from the angelic
1079 16 | when the number lost from the angelic apostasy are replaced
1080 16 | apostasy are replaced from the ranks of mankind. The~part
1081 16 | from the ranks of mankind. The~part on earth is restored
1082 16 | eternal life are redeemed from the old~state of corruption.~
1083 16 | state of corruption.~Thus by the single sacrifice, of which
1084 16 | single sacrifice, of which the many victims of the law
1085 16 | which the many victims of the law were only shadows, the~
1086 16 | the law were only shadows, the~heavenly part is set at
1087 16 | part is set at peace with the earthly part and the earthly
1088 16 | with the earthly part and the earthly reconciled to the
1089 16 | the earthly reconciled to the heavenly. ~Wherefore, as
1090 16 | heavenly. ~Wherefore, as the same apostle says: "For
1091 16 | making peace with them by the blood of his ~cross, whether
1092 16 | entered into it. For how is the heavenly~realm set at peace,
1093 16 | always peace, both among the whole company of rational
1094 16 | and their~Creator. This is the peace that, as it is said, "
1095 16 | of those who always see the Father's face. For no matter
1096 16 | surpass our understanding. But the peace of God, which is there,
1097 16 | it is better to interpret the passage, "The peace of God
1098 16 | interpret the passage, "The peace of God which passes
1099 16 | understanding," so~that from the word "all" not even the
1100 16 | the word "all" not even the understanding of the holy
1101 16 | even the understanding of the holy angels should be excepted. ~
1102 17 | Forgiveness of Sins in the Church~~
1103 17 | 64. The angels are in concord with
1104 17 | forgiven. Therefore, in~the order of the Creed, after
1105 17 | Therefore, in~the order of the Creed, after the reference
1106 17 | order of the Creed, after the reference to "holy Church"
1107 17 | holy Church" is placed the reference to ~"forgiveness
1108 17 | For it is by this that the part of the Church on earth
1109 17 | by this that the part of the Church on earth stands;
1110 17 | not lost again. Of course, the gift of baptism is an~exception.
1111 17 | contracted by birth is~removed by the new birth - though it also
1112 17 | for this great remission - the beginning point of a man'
1113 17 | acquired, is washed away - the rest of life, from the age
1114 17 | the rest of life, from the age of~accountability (and
1115 17 | righteousness), is not without the~need for the forgiveness
1116 17 | not without the~need for the forgiveness of sins. This
1117 17 | forgiveness of sins. This is the case because the sons of
1118 17 | This is the case because the sons of God, as long as
1119 17 | As many as~are led by the Spirit of God, they are
1120 17 | Spirit of God, they are the sons of God,"~133 yet even
1121 17 | as they are being led by~the Spirit of God and, as sons
1122 17 | so that, weighed down by the corruptible body and influenced
1123 17 | crime. Thus we can say of the life of holy men even while~
1124 17 | that we have no sin,"~as the great apostle says, "we
1125 17 | deceive even ourselves, and the truth is not in us."~134~
1126 17 | repent, each according to the measure of his sin. ~And,
1127 17 | measure of his sin. ~And, in the act of repentance,~135 where
1128 17 | gravity as also to~cut off the sinner from the body of
1129 17 | cut off the sinner from the body of Christ, we should
1130 17 | we should not consider the measure of time as much
1131 17 | measure of time as much as~the measure of sorrow. For, "
1132 17(135)| of poenitentiam agite in the 95 Theses and in De poenitentia. ~
1133 17 | despise."~136~Still, since the sorrow of one heart is mostly
1134 17 | established by those~set over the churches, that satisfaction
1135 17 | satisfaction may also be made in the Church, in which the sins
1136 17 | in the Church, in which the sins are ~forgiven. For,
1137 17 | For she alone has received the~pledge of the Holy Spirit,~138
1138 17 | has received the~pledge of the Holy Spirit,~138 without
1139 17 | 66. Now the remission of sins has chiefly
1140 17 | sins has chiefly to do with the future judgment. In this
1141 17 | future judgment. In this life the~Scripture saying holds true: "
1142 17 | true: "A heavy yoke is on the sons of Adam, from the day
1143 17 | on the sons of Adam, from the day they come forth ~from
1144 17 | their mother's womb till the day of their burial in the
1145 17 | the day of their burial in the mother of us all."~139 Thus
1146 17 | see~even infants, after the washing of regeneration,
1147 17 | helps us~to understand that the whole import of the ~sacraments
1148 17 | that the whole import of the ~sacraments of salvation
1149 17 | salvation has to do more with the hope of future goods than
1150 17 | of future goods than with the retaining or~attaining of
1151 17 | punishment is reserved for the future. It is not in vain
1152 17 | It is not in vain that the day when the Judge of the~
1153 17 | in vain that the day when the Judge of the~living and
1154 17 | the day when the Judge of the~living and the dead shall
1155 17 | Judge of the~living and the dead shall come is rightly
1156 17 | shall come is rightly called the Day of Judgment. Just so,
1157 17 | of Judgment. Just so, on the other hand,~some sins are
1158 17 | bring no harm upon us in the~future age. Hence, referring
1159 17 | upon sinners in~this life, the apostle, speaking to those
1160 17 | out and not reserved to the end,~says: "For if we judge
1161 17 | should not be judged by the Lord. But when we are~judged,
1162 17 | judged, we are chastised by the Lord, that we may not be
1163 18(141)| supplies an important clue to the date of the Enchiridion
1164 18(141)| important clue to the date of the Enchiridion and an interesting
1165 18(141)| material." In his treatise on The Eight Questions of Dulcitius (
1166 18(141)| a part of his answer to the question whether those who
1167 18(141)| ever delivered from hell. The date of the De octo is 422
1168 18(141)| delivered from hell. The date of the De octo is 422 or, possibly,
1169 18(141)| have a terminus ad quem for the date of the Enchiridion.
1170 18(141)| ad quem for the date of the Enchiridion. Still the best
1171 18(141)| of the Enchiridion. Still the best text of De octo is
1172 18(141)| PL, 40, c. 147-170, and the best English translation
1173 18(141)| Treatises on Various Subjects (The Fathers of the Church, New
1174 18(141)| Subjects (The Fathers of the Church, New York, 1952),
1175 18 | those who do not abandon the name of Christ,~and who
1176 18 | baptized in his laver in the Church, who are not cut
1177 18 | human ~benevolence. For the divine Scripture, when consulted,
1178 18 | according to Holy Scripture, the faith that saves is the
1179 18 | the faith that saves is the faith that~the apostle Paul
1180 18 | saves is the faith that~the apostle Paul adequately
1181 18 | nor uncircumcision, but the faith which works through
1182 18(142)| Augustine seeks to combine the Pauline and Jacobite emphases
1183 18(142)| essential to salvation. The best text is that of Joseph
1184 18(142)| A Library of Fathers of the Holy Catholic Church; Seventeen
1185 18 | without doubt, according to the apostle James "it is dead
1186 18 | to save him?"~145~Now, if the wicked man were to be saved
1187 18 | faith only, and if this is the~way the statement of the
1188 18 | and if this is the~way the statement of the blessed
1189 18 | the~way the statement of the blessed Paul should be understood - "
1190 18 | salvation. But then what~the apostle James said would
1191 18 | be another statement of the ~same Paul himself: "Do
1192 18 | idolaters, nor adulterers, nor~the unmanly, nor homosexuals,
1193 18 | homosexuals, nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards,
1194 18 | extortioners, shall inherit the Kingdom of God."~147 Now,
1195 18 | would they not then be in the Kingdom of ~God?~
1196 18 | about those who build on "the foundation, which is Christ,
1197 18 | perishing on~account of the saving worth of their foundation -
1198 18 | loss without anguish in the soul. Now,~when such anguish "
1199 18 | his place as foundation in the heart - that is, if~nothing
1200 18 | preferred to him and if the man whose anguish "burns"
1201 18 | prefer to suffer loss~of the things he greatly loves
1202 18 | because he has put "things" in the first place - whereas in
1203 18 | building nothing comes before the ~foundations.~Now, this
1204 18 | Now, this fire, of which the apostle speaks, should be
1205 18 | men must pass: that is, the man who builds with gold,
1206 18 | this~foundation and also the man who builds with wood,
1207 18 | spoken~of this, he added: "The fire shall try every man'
1208 18 | by fire."~149 Therefore the fire will test~the work,
1209 18 | Therefore the fire will test~the work, not only of the one,
1210 18 | test~the work, not only of the one, but of both.~The fire
1211 18 | of the one, but of both.~The fire is a sort of trial
1212 18 | clearly written elsewhere: "The~furnace tries the potter'
1213 18 | elsewhere: "The~furnace tries the potter's vessels and the
1214 18 | the potter's vessels and the trial of affliction tests
1215 18 | This kind of~fire works in the span of this life, just
1216 18 | span of this life, just as the apostle said, as it affects
1217 18 | apostle said, as it affects the two different kinds of~faithful
1218 18 | There is, for example, the man who "thinks of the things
1219 18 | the man who "thinks of the things of God, how he may~
1220 18 | Such a man builds on Christ the foundation, with gold, silver,
1221 18 | silver, and precious stones. ~The other man "thinks about
1222 18 | other man "thinks about the things of the world, how
1223 18 | thinks about the things of the world, how he may please
1224 18 | that is,~he builds upon the same foundation with wood,
1225 18 | wood, hay, and stubble. The work of the former is not~
1226 18 | and stubble. The work of the former is not~burned up,
1227 18 | loss brings anguish. But the work of the~latter is burned
1228 18 | anguish. But the work of the~latter is burned up, since
1229 18 | situation, he prefers to suffer the loss of these~things rather
1230 18 | burns" with~grief, for the things he has loved and
1231 18 | him, secured as~he is by the stability and the indestructibility
1232 18 | is by the stability and the indestructibility of his
1233 18 | remain hidden whether some of the faithful are sooner or later
1234 18 | proportion as they have loved the goods that perish, and in~
1235 18 | They shall not possess the Kingdom of God,"~152 unless
1236 18 | tells us in advance that,~on the bare basis of fruitfulness
1237 18 | his right hand; and, on~the same basis of unfruitfulness,
1238 18 | left - when he shall say to the former, ~"Come, blessed
1239 18 | blessed of my Father, receive the Kingdom," but to the latter, "
1240 18 | receive the Kingdom," but to the latter, "Depart into everlasting~
1241 19 | commit who "will not possess the Kingdom of God" can be perpetrated
1242 19 | life must be changed for the better, and alms should
1243 19 | 71. For the passing and trivial sins
1244 19 | from which no life is free, the everyday~prayer of the faithful
1245 19 | the everyday~prayer of the faithful makes satisfaction.
1246 19 | such a Father "by water and the Spirit."~155 This prayer
1247 19 | those sins which once made the life of~the faithful wicked,
1248 19 | which once made the life of~the faithful wicked, but from
1249 19 | that they have changed for the better by repentance,~they
1250 19 | repentance,~they have departed. The condition of this is that
1251 19 | mercy. Therefore, not only the man who gives food to~the
1252 19 | the man who gives food to~the hungry, drink to the thirsty,
1253 19 | to~the hungry, drink to the thirsty, clothing to the
1254 19 | the thirsty, clothing to the naked, hospitality to the
1255 19 | the naked, hospitality to the wayfarer, refuge to the~
1256 19 | the wayfarer, refuge to the~fugitive; who visits the
1257 19 | the~fugitive; who visits the sick and the prisoner, redeems
1258 19 | who visits the sick and the prisoner, redeems the captive,
1259 19 | and the prisoner, redeems the captive, bears the burdens
1260 19 | redeems the captive, bears the burdens of the weak, ~leads
1261 19 | captive, bears the burdens of the weak, ~leads the blind,
1262 19 | burdens of the weak, ~leads the blind, comforts the sorrowful,
1263 19 | leads the blind, comforts the sorrowful, heals the sick,
1264 19 | comforts the sorrowful, heals the sick, shows the errant the
1265 19 | sorrowful, heals the sick, shows the errant the right way, gives~
1266 19 | the sick, shows the errant the right way, gives~advice
1267 19 | right way, gives~advice to the perplexed, and does whatever
1268 19 | whatever is needful for the needy~158 - not only does
1269 19 | this~man give alms, but the man who forgives the trespasser
1270 19 | but the man who forgives the trespasser also gives alms
1271 19 | under his command,~if at the same time he forgives from
1272 19 | same time he forgives from the heart the sin by which he
1273 19 | forgives from the heart the sin by which he has been
1274 19 | prays that it be forgiven the offender. Such a man gives
1275 19 | benefits are bestowed on the unwilling, when their interests
1276 19(158)| a close approximation of the medieval lists of "The Seven
1277 19(158)| of the medieval lists of "The Seven Works of Mercy." Cf.
1278 19(158)| T. McNeill, A History of the Cure of Souls, pp. 155,
1279 19 | these alms is greater than the forgiveness from the heart
1280 19 | than the forgiveness from the heart of a sin committed~
1281 19 | Such counsels are for the perfect sons of God. And
1282 19 | of God. And although all the faithful should strive~toward
1283 19 | cannot be doubted that the terms of this pledge are
1284 19 | enemies, still forgives from the heart one who has sinned
1285 19 | who does not forgive from the heart one who asks forgiveness
1286 19 | own sins are forgiven by the Lord, since the Truth~cannot
1287 19 | forgiven by the Lord, since the Truth~cannot lie, and what
1288 19 | what hearer and reader of the gospel has not noted who
1289 19 | who it was who said, "I am~the Truth"~160? It is, of course,
1290 19 | It is, of course, the One who, when he was teaching
1291 19 | who, when he was teaching the prayer, strongly~emphasized
1292 19 | has power to awaken even the dead.~~
1293 20 | themselves in vain with the Lord's words, "Give alms;
1294 20 | he said it. For this is the context of it in the Gospel: "
1295 20 | is the context of it in the Gospel: "As he was~speaking,
1296 20 | went in and reclined at the table. ~And the Pharisee
1297 20 | reclined at the table. ~And the Pharisee began to wonder
1298 20 | himself before~dinner. But the Lord said to him: 'Now you
1299 20 | Now you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and the
1300 20 | Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and the dish,~but within
1301 20 | the outside of the cup and the dish,~but within you are
1302 20 | ones! Did not He who made~the outside make the inside
1303 20 | who made~the outside make the inside too? ~Nevertheless,
1304 20 | interpret this to mean that to the Pharisees, who had not the
1305 20 | the Pharisees, who had not the faith of Christ, all things ~
1306 20 | been reborn of water and the Spirit? But all are unclean
1307 20 | who are not made clean ~by the faith of Christ, of whom
1308 20 | hearts by faith."~163 And as the~apostle said, "But to them
1309 20 | should all things be clean to the Pharisees, even if~they
1310 20 | is a work of mercy, and the saying is most true: "Have
1311 20 | soul, pleasing God."~165 The purpose of the new birth
1312 20 | God."~165 The purpose of the new birth is that we should
1313 20 | is justly displeased with the sin we contracted in birth.
1314 20 | contracted in birth. This is the first ~almsgiving, which
1315 20 | ourselves - when through the mercy of a merciful God
1316 20 | and come to acknowledge the just verdict by which we
1317 20 | of that mercy, of which the apostle says, "Judgment
1318 20 | to~condemnation."~166 And the same herald of grace then
1319 20 | and begin~to love God with the love he himself giveth us,
1320 20 | piously and ~righteously.~But the Pharisees, while they gave
1321 20 | as alms a tithing of even the least of their fruits,~disregarded
1322 20 | yourself."~168~Therefore, when the Lord had reproved the Pharisees
1323 20 | when the Lord had reproved the Pharisees for washing themselves
1324 20 | for washing themselves on the outside~while inwardly they
1325 20 | himself - to make clean the inner man: "However," he~
1326 20 | you." Then, to make plain~the import of his admonition,
1327 20 | am advising you to give the kind of alms which shall
1328 20 | then neglect justice and the love of God."~"_This_ kind
1329 20 | inward defilement, just as the bodies~which you wash are
1330 20 | made clean by you." For the word "all" here means both "
1331 20 | elsewhere we read, "Make clean the inside, and the outside
1332 20 | Make clean the inside, and the outside will become~clean."~170~
1333 20 | appear that he was rejecting the kind of alms we give of
1334 20 | kind of alms we give of the earth's bounty, he~adds, "
1335 20 | that is, pay heed to the judgment and love of God -
1336 20 | love of God - and~"not omit the others" - that is, alms
1337 20 | that is, alms done with the earth's bounty.~
1338 20 | impunity to continue in the enormity of their~crimes
1339 20 | enormity of their~crimes and the grossness of their wickedness.
1340 20 | For by loving it after the world's way he hates it
1341 20 | would hate his soul after the world's way and love it
1342 20 | all unless he gives from the store of Him who ~needs
1343 21 | respect of some sins, even the apostle, by pardoning ~them,
1344 21 | Such a case is seen in what the venerable Paul says to married~
1345 21 | lest Satan tempt you at the point of self - control."~173
1346 21 | intercourse, not only for the sake of ~procreating children -
1347 21 | procreating children - which is the good of marriage - but also
1348 21 | marriage - but also for the sake of the carnal~pleasure
1349 21 | but also for the sake of the carnal~pleasure involved.
1350 21 | consider this not a sin, had the apostle not ~added, "But
1351 21 | bring it to be judged before the unrighteous and not the
1352 21 | the unrighteous and not the saints?"~174 And a bit later: "
1353 21 | who are~contemptible in the Church's eyes. I say this
1354 21 | with brother, and~that in the presence of ~unbelievers."~175
1355 21 | against a~brother, and that the only sin consisted in wishing
1356 21 | wishing it judged outside the Church, if the apostle had~
1357 21 | judged outside the Church, if the apostle had~not added immediately, "
1358 21 | immediately, "Now therefore the whole fault among you is
1359 21 | removed by judicial sentence, the apostle~directly resists
1360 21 | brought back to that saying of the Lord: "If anyone~would take
1361 21 | because of this teaching that the~apostle says that this kind
1362 21 | such suits to be decided in~the Church, brothers judging
1363 21 | forbids such a thing outside the Church, it is~clear that
1364 21 | concession is being made here for the infirmities of the weak.~
1365 21 | here for the infirmities of the weak.~Because of these and
1366 21 | thoughts - and because, as the apostle James confesses, "
1367 21 | it behooves us to pray to the Lord daily and often, and
1368 21 | deemed quite trifling if the Scriptures did not~show
1369 21 | danger of hell-fire," if the Truth had not said it? Still,
1370 21 | not said it? Still, for the hurt he~immediately supplied
1371 21 | supplied a medicine, adding the precept of brotherly reconciliation: "
1372 21 | you are offering a gift at the altar, and remember there
1373 21 | unlucky - if we did not infer the magnitude of this evil from
1374 21 | magnitude of this evil from the apostle's~fear, in saying
1375 21 | of which it is~written, "The sinner is praised in the
1376 21 | The sinner is praised in the desires of his soul; and
1377 21 | iniquity is~blessed."~183~In the divine books such iniquity
1378 21 | You have such a usage in the~prophet Isaiah's reference
1379 21 | prophet Isaiah's reference to the evil vineyard: "I looked
1380 21 | that passage in Genesis: "The cry of Sodom~and Gomorrah
1381 21 | ago, when I was expounding~the Epistle to the Galatians,
1382 21 | expounding~the Epistle to the Galatians, where the apostle
1383 21 | to the Galatians, where the apostle says, "I fear for
1384 21 | moved to exclaim: "Woe to the sins of men! We shrink from
1385 21 | are accustomed -~although the blood of the Son of God
1386 21 | although the blood of the Son of God was shed to wash
1387 21 | although they are so great~that the Kingdom of God is wholly
1388 22 | CHAPTER XXII - The Two Causes of Sin~~
1389 22 | ought to do. Of these two, the first is ignorance~of the
1390 22 | the first is ignorance~of the evil; the second, weakness.~
1391 22 | is ignorance~of the evil; the second, weakness.~We must
1392 22 | Him of whom it is said in the psalm, "The~Lord is my light
1393 22 | it is said in the psalm, "The~Lord is my light and my ~
1394 22 | performed. For shame is the fear of displeasing ~men,
1395 22 | may be enabled to do so, the mercy of God is prerequisite.
1396 22 | prerequisite. Otherwise, the apostle would not say~of
1397 22 | enabled to weep bitterly, the Evangelist tells, "The Lord
1398 22 | the Evangelist tells, "The Lord looked at him."~189~
1399 22 | 83. But the man who does not believe
1400 22 | that sins are forgiven in the Church, who despises so~
1401 22 | despises so~great a bounty of the divine gifts and ends, and
1402 22 | that man is guilty of the unpardonable sin against
1403 22 | unpardonable sin against the Holy Spirit, in whom Christ~
1404 22(191)| to which Possidius gave the title De blasphemia in Spiritum
1405 23 | CHAPTER XXIII - The Reality of the Resurrection~~
1406 23 | CHAPTER XXIII - The Reality of the Resurrection~~
1407 23 | 84. Now, with respect to the resurrection of the body -
1408 23 | respect to the resurrection of the body - and by this I do
1409 23 | and by this I do not mean the cases~of resuscitation after
1410 23 | resurrection to eternal life after the fashion~of Christ's own
1411 23 | satisfactory~answers to all the questions usually raised
1412 23 | no Christian should have the slightest~doubt as to the
1413 23 | the slightest~doubt as to the fact that the bodies of
1414 23 | doubt as to the fact that the bodies of all men, whether
1415 23 | then, first of all, comes the question about abortive
1416 23 | which are indeed "born" in the mother's womb, but are never
1417 23 | affirm it either - that in~the resurrection day what is
1418 23 | resurrection day what is lacking in the forms of things will be
1419 23 | will be filled out? Thus, the perfection~which time would
1420 23 | be lacking, any more than the blemishes wrought~by time
1421 23 | most carefully discussed by the most learned men, and still
1422 23 | human being begin to live in the womb? Is there~some form
1423 23 | life, not yet apparent in the motions of a living thing?
1424 23 | by limb and cast out of the~wombs of pregnant women,
1425 23 | of pregnant women, lest the mothers die also if the
1426 23 | the mothers die also if the fetuses were left there
1427 23 | overtook him, I cannot find the basis on which he~would
1428 23 | would not have a share in the resurrection of the dead.~
1429 23 | share in the resurrection of the dead.~
1430 23 | 87. By the same token, the resurrection
1431 23 | 87. By the same token, the resurrection is not to be
1432 23 | resurrection is not to be denied in the cases of monsters which
1433 23 | double-limbed man recently born in the Orient - about whom most
1434 23 | eyewitness reports and the presbyter Jerome, of holy
1435 23 | say, to suppose that at the resurrection there will
1436 23 | are called monsters: at the ~resurrection they will
1437 23 | they will be restored to the normal human ~physiognomy,
1438 23(193)| to similar phenomena in The City of God, XVI. viii,
1439 23 | 88. Moreover, with God, the earthly substance from which
1440 23 | earthly substance from which the flesh of mortal man is~produced
1441 23 | dispersed into~vapors and the winds, or converted into
1442 23 | winds, or converted into the substance of other bodies (
1443 23 | bodies (or even back into the~basic elements themselves),
1444 23 | time this matter returns to the soul that first animated
1445 23 | which becomes a corpse upon the soul's departure will not,
1446 23 | s departure will not, at the~resurrection, be so restored
1447 23 | resurrection, be so restored that the parts into which it was
1448 23 | must necessarily return to the same parts of the body in
1449 23 | return to the same parts of the body in which they were~
1450 23 | though they do return to the body from which they were
1451 23 | Otherwise, to~suppose that the hair recovers what frequent
1452 23 | clippings have taken off, or the nails get back what~trimming
1453 23 | wholly unbecoming image in the minds of those~who speculate
1454 23 | them thus to disbelieve in the resurrection. But take the~
1455 23 | the resurrection. But take the~example of a statue made
1456 23 | to restore it again from the mass of the same~material,
1457 23 | it again from the mass of the same~material, it would
1458 23 | would make no difference to the wholeness of the restored
1459 23 | difference to the wholeness of the restored statue which part
1460 23 | was~remade of what part of the metal, so long as the statue,
1461 23 | of the metal, so long as the statue, as restored, had
1462 23 | restored, had been given all the~material of which it was
1463 23 | mysterious celerity, out of ~the whole of the matter of which
1464 23 | celerity, out of ~the whole of the matter of which it was originally
1465 23 | will make no difference, in~the restoration, whether hair
1466 23 | nails to nails, or whether the part of this original~matter
1467 23 | restored to other parts of the body. The~main thing is
1468 23 | other parts of the body. The~main thing is that the providence
1469 23 | The~main thing is that the providence of the [divine]
1470 23 | is that the providence of the [divine] Artist takes care
1471 23 | Nor does it follow that the stature of each person will
1472 23 | when first alive, nor that the lean will be raised~lean
1473 23 | lean will be raised~lean or the fat come back to life in
1474 23 | obesity. But if this is in the Creator's plan, that~each
1475 23 | his special features and the proper and recognizable
1476 23 | will be preserved - then the matter of which each~resurrection
1477 23 | nothing as he wills.~But if in the bodies of those rising again
1478 23 | be managed by disposing the matter of each body ~so
1479 23 | men into their place in the angelic band and impose
1480 23 | fitting,~and this because the unfitting will simply not
1481 23 | 91. The bodies of the saints, then,
1482 23 | 91. The bodies of the saints, then, shall rise
1483 23 | spirits. For just as now the body is called "animate"~[
1484 23 | Accordingly, then, as far as the corruption which weighs
1485 23 | corruption which weighs down the soul and the vices through~
1486 23 | weighs down the soul and the vices through~which "the
1487 23 | the vices through~which "the flesh lusts against the
1488 23 | the flesh lusts against the spirit"~194 are concerned,
1489 23 | blood shall not inherit the Kingdom of God," and~then,
1490 23 | incorruption."~196 What the writer first called "flesh
1491 23 | and what he first called "the Kingdom of God" he then
1492 23 | incorruption."~But, as far as the substance of the resurrection
1493 23 | far as the substance of the resurrection body is concerned,
1494 23 | be~"flesh." This is why the body of Christ is called "
1495 23 | called "flesh" even after the resurrection. Wherefore~
1496 23 | resurrection. Wherefore~the apostle also says, "What
1497 23 | between flesh and spirit - the spirit~quickening the servant
1498 23 | the spirit~quickening the servant flesh without any
1499 23 | brought to pass through the~first man) by the one Mediator
1500 23 | through the~first man) by the one Mediator between God