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1501 23 | be punished together with the devil and his angels. Whether
1502 23 | question? For obviously the uncertainty~about their
1503 23 | This state is called, in ~the Scripture, "the second death."~198~
1504 23 | called, in ~the Scripture, "the second death."~198~
1505 23 | 93. Yet neither the first death, in which the
1506 23 | the first death, in which the soul is compelled to leave
1507 23 | compelled to leave its body, nor the~second death, in which it
1508 23 | is not allowed to leave the body undergoing punishment,
1509 23 | one had sinned. Surely, the lightest of all punishments
1510 23 | originally contracted. Among the rest, who have added ~further
1511 23 | tolerable in proportion to~the lesser degree of their iniquity.~~
1512 24 | CHAPTER XXIV - The Solution to Present Spiritual
1513 24 | Enigmas to Be Awaited in the Life of the World To Come~~
1514 24 | Be Awaited in the Life of the World To Come~~
1515 24 | thus it will be that while the reprobated angels and men
1516 24 | their eternal~punishment, the saints will go on learning
1517 24 | go on learning more fully the blessings which grace has
1518 24 | upon them. Then, through the actual realities of their
1519 24 | they will see more clearly the~meaning of what is written
1520 24 | meaning of what is written in The Psalms: "I will sing to
1521 24 | taken up by~God's mercy and the other abandoned through
1522 24 | God's judgment - and when the chosen one~knows what would
1523 24 | deserts in judgment - why was the one chosen rather than~the
1524 24 | the one chosen rather than~the other, when the condition
1525 24 | rather than~the other, when the condition of the two was
1526 24 | other, when the condition of the two was the same? Or again,
1527 24 | condition of the two was the same? Or again, why were
1528 24 | miracles not~wrought in the presence of certain people
1529 24 | who would have repented in the face of miraculous~works,
1530 24 | miracles were wrought in the presence of those who were
1531 24 | and Sidon had been wrought the miracles done in your midst,
1532 24 | willed it so.~201 Then, in the~clearest light of wisdom,
1533 24 | wisdom, will be seen what now the pious hold by faith, not
1534 24 | immutable, and effectual is the will of God, how there are
1535 24 | true is what is sung in ~the psalm: "But our God is above
1536 24(201)| This is one of the rare instances in which
1537 24(201)| affects a basic issue in the interpretation of his doctrine.
1538 24(201)| doctrine. All but one of the major old editions, up to
1539 24(201)| willed it). This would mean the attribution of a decisive
1540 24(201)| role in human salvation to the human will and would thus
1541 24(201)| from his general stress in the rest of the Enchiridion
1542 24(201)| general stress in the rest of the Enchiridion and elsewhere
1543 24(201)| Enchiridion and elsewhere on the primacy and even irresistibility
1544 24(201)| irresistibility of grace. The Jansenist edition of Augustine,
1545 24(201)| if _He_ willed it) and the reading became the subject
1546 24(201)| and the reading became the subject of acrimonious controversy
1547 24(201)| acrimonious controversy between the Jansenists and the Molinists.
1548 24(201)| between the Jansenists and the Molinists. The Maurist edition
1549 24(201)| Jansenists and the Molinists. The Maurist edition reads si
1550 24(201)| edition reads si vellet, on the strength of much additional
1551 24(201)| that time. In modern times, the si vellet reading has come
1552 24(201)| reading has come to have the overwhelming support of
1553 24(201)| overwhelming support of the critical editors, although
1554 24 | man's will prevented~him, the Omnipotent, from doing what
1555 24 | therefore, happens unless the~Omnipotent wills it to happen.
1556 24(202)| s sense of liberty with the texts of Scripture. Here
1557 24 | not be allowed to exist by the Omnipotent Good, for whom
1558 24 | Unless we believe this, the very beginning of our Confession
1559 24 | of Faith is imperiled - the~sentence in which we profess
1560 24 | profess to believe in God the Father Almighty. For he
1561 24 | whatsoever he willeth and because the efficacy of his~omnipotent
1562 24 | omnipotent will is not impeded by the will of any creature.~
1563 24 | we must now inquire about the meaning of what was said
1564 24 | what was said most truly by the~apostle concerning God, "
1565 24 | would indeed appear that the fact that what God willeth
1566 24 | embargo on God's will by the human will.~Now, when we
1567 24 | will.~Now, when we ask for the reason why not all are saved,
1568 24 | reason why not all are saved, the customary answer is: "Because~
1569 24 | who have not yet come to~the power of willing or not
1570 24 | attribute to their wills the infant squirmings~they make
1571 24 | against their will. But the Lord's language is clearer
1572 24 | language is clearer when, in the Gospel, he~reproveth the
1573 24 | the Gospel, he~reproveth the unrighteous city: "How often,"
1574 24 | by human wills and as if the weakest, by not willing,
1575 24 | by not willing, impeded the Most Powerful~so that he
1576 24 | if he willed to gather the children of Jerusalem~together,
1577 24 | so? Or, is it not rather the case that, although Jerusalem
1578 25 | XXV - Predestination and the Justice of God~~
1579 25 | say that God cannot turn the evil~wills of men - as he
1580 25 | where he willeth - toward the good? But,~when he acteth,
1581 25 | hardeneth."~205~Now when the apostle said this, he was
1582 25 | spoken in~connection with the twin children in Rebecca'
1583 25 | good or bad, in order that the electing purpose of God
1584 25 | through works but through the divine calling - it was
1585 25 | it was said of them, 'The elder shall serve the~younger.' "~206
1586 25 | The elder shall serve the~younger.' "~206 Accordingly,
1587 25 | or bad, God should love the one and hate ~the other.
1588 25 | should love the one and hate ~the other. Now, if the apostle
1589 25 | hate ~the other. Now, if the apostle had wished us to
1590 25 | were future good deeds of~the one, and evil deeds of the
1591 25 | the one, and evil deeds of the other - which God, of course,
1592 25 | Thus he would have solved the~difficulty; or, rather,
1593 25 | imposes penal~judgment on the deserving or when he shows
1594 25 | or when he shows mercy to the undeserving? Finally, the
1595 25 | the undeserving? Finally, the apostle~concludes and says, "
1596 25 | showing mercy."~210~Thus, both the twins were "by nature children
1597 25 | they were both bound in the fetters of damnation originally
1598 25 | wrath] was due~them both, the former learned from what
1599 25 | learned from what happened to the other that the fact that
1600 25 | happened to the other that the fact that he had not,~with
1601 25 | with equal merit, incurred the same penalty gave him no
1602 25 | that he should glory in the abundance of divine grace,
1603 25 | mercy."~212 And, indeed,~the whole visage of Scripture
1604 25 | and, if I may speak so, the lineaments of its ~countenance,
1605 25 | glories, should glory in the Lord."~213~
1606 25(213)| Cor. 1 :31; cf. Jer. 9:24. The _religious_ intention of
1607 25(213)| never so much to account for the doom of the wicked as to
1608 25(213)| account for the doom of the wicked as to underscore
1609 25(213)| wicked as to underscore the sheer and wonderful gratuity
1610 25 | 99. Now, after the apostle had commended God'
1611 25 | immediately added, "For the Scripture says to Pharaoh, '
1612 25 | may be proclaimed in~all the earth."~214 Then, having
1613 25 | merit of his own; nor does the man who is damned have a
1614 25 | For grace alone separates the redeemed from the lost,
1615 25 | separates the redeemed from the lost, all~having been mingled
1616 25 | been mingled together in the one mass of perdition, arising
1617 25 | should be ashamed to give the same reply as we see~the
1618 25 | the same reply as we see~the apostle giving: "O man,
1619 25 | you to reply to God? Does the molded object say to the~
1620 25 | the molded object say to the~molder, 'Why have you made
1621 25 | me like this?' Or is not the potter master of his clay,
1622 25 | of his clay, to make from~the same mass one vessel for
1623 25 | think that in this part of the argument the apostle had
1624 25 | this part of the argument the apostle had no~answer to
1625 25 | rejoinder, simply rebuked the audacity of his ~gainsayer.
1626 25 | single word, to consider the limits of his capacity and,
1627 25 | of his capacity and, at the ~same time, supplies an
1628 25 | understands, he sees ~that the whole human race was condemned
1629 25 | even if a single member of the race were ever saved from
1630 25 | show - by contrast with the greater number of those
1631 25 | wholly just damnation - what the whole mass deserved and
1632 25 | that glories may glory in the~Lord."~217~~
1633 26 | CHAPTER XXVI - The Triumph of God's Sovereign
1634 26 | 100. These are "the great works of the Lord,
1635 26 | are "the great works of the Lord, well-considered in
1636 26 | willed and~this through the same creaturely will by
1637 26 | creaturely will by which the first act contrary to the
1638 26 | the first act contrary to the Creator's will had been~
1639 26 | s will had been~done. As the Supreme Good, he made good
1640 26 | good use of evil deeds, for the damnation of those whom~
1641 26 | predestined to punishment and for the salvation of those whom
1642 26 | thereby accomplished. This is the meaning of the~statement, "
1643 26 | This is the meaning of the~statement, "The works of
1644 26 | meaning of the~statement, "The works of the Lord are great,
1645 26 | statement, "The works of the Lord are great, well-considered
1646 26 | would he who is good allow the evil to be done, unless
1647 26 | also God's will. Of course, the former wills what God doth
1648 26 | God doth not will, whereas the latter~does will what God
1649 26 | will what God willeth. Yet the piety of the one, though
1650 26 | willeth. Yet the piety of the one, though he wills not
1651 26 | with God's will than is the impiety of the other, who
1652 26 | will than is the impiety of the other, who wills the same
1653 26 | of the other, who wills the same thing that~God willeth.
1654 26 | for God - and also between the ends to which a man directs
1655 26 | course, all good - through the evil wills of bad men. For~
1656 26 | example, it was through the ill will of the Jews that,
1657 26 | through the ill will of the Jews that, by the good will
1658 26 | will of the Jews that, by the good will of the Father,
1659 26 | that, by the good will of the Father, Christ was~slain
1660 26 | a deed so good that when the apostle Peter would have
1661 26 | slain.~219 How good seemed the purposes of the~pious faithful
1662 26 | good seemed the purposes of the~pious faithful who were
1663 26 | who were unwilling that the apostle Paul should go to
1664 26 | lest there he~should suffer the things that the prophet
1665 26 | should suffer the things that the prophet Agabus had predicted!~220
1666 26 | suffer these things for the sake of the preaching of
1667 26 | these things for the sake of the preaching of Christ, and
1668 26 | preaching of Christ, and for the training of a~martyr for
1669 26 | he achieved, not through the good will of the~Christians,
1670 26 | through the good will of the~Christians, but through
1671 26 | Christians, but through the ill will of the Jews. Yet
1672 26 | through the ill will of the Jews. Yet they were more
1673 26 | purpose - for while he and the latter did the very same
1674 26 | while he and the latter did the very same thing, he worked~
1675 26 | 102. But, however strong the wills either of angels or
1676 26 | or will something else, the will of the Omnipotent is
1677 26 | something else, the will of the Omnipotent is always ~undefeated.
1678 26 | willeth, he hardeneth," the omnipotent God never doth~
1679 27 | that account to underrate the fully omnipotent will of
1680 27 | Rather, we must understand the~Scripture, "Who will have
1681 27 | was of prayer to God that the apostle~was speaking when
1682 27 | understand what is written in~the Gospel about Him "who enlighteneth
1683 27 | except by God.~In any case, the word concerning God, "who
1684 27 | men" we~are to understand the whole of mankind, in every
1685 27 | nobility and plebeians; the high and the low; the learned
1686 27 | plebeians; the high and the low; the learned and unlearned;
1687 27 | plebeians; the high and the low; the learned and unlearned; the
1688 27 | the learned and unlearned; the healthy~and the sick; the
1689 27 | unlearned; the healthy~and the sick; the bright, the dull,
1690 27 | the healthy~and the sick; the bright, the dull, and the
1691 27 | and the sick; the bright, the dull, and the stupid; the
1692 27 | the bright, the dull, and the stupid; the rich, the poor,
1693 27 | the dull, and the stupid; the rich, the poor, and the
1694 27 | and the stupid; the rich, the poor, and the middle class; ~
1695 27 | the rich, the poor, and the middle class; ~males, females,
1696 27 | females, infants, children, the adolescent, young adults
1697 27 | tongue and fashion, of all the arts, of all professions,
1698 27 | of all professions, with the countless variety of wills
1699 27 | wills and~minds and all the other things that differentiate
1700 27 | he doth save them since the Omnipotent cannot will in
1701 27 | whatsoever he~willeth.~Now, the apostle had enjoined that
1702 27 | cause for them to despise the humility of the Christian
1703 27 | despise the humility of the Christian faith. Then,~continuing
1704 27 | is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour"~225- ~
1705 27 | such as these [kings] - the apostle, to remove any warrant
1706 27 | men be saved and come to the knowledge of the truth."~226
1707 27 | come to the knowledge of the truth."~226 Truly, ~then,
1708 27 | judged it good that through the prayers of the lowly he
1709 27 | that through the prayers of the lowly he would deign to
1710 27 | deign to grant~salvation to the exalted - a paradox we have
1711 27 | exemplified. Our Lord also useth the ~same manner of speech in
1712 27 | same manner of speech in the Gospel, where he saith to
1713 27 | Gospel, where he saith to the Pharisees, "You tithe mint
1714 27 | every herb."~227 Obviously, the Pharisees did not tithe
1715 27 | belonged to others, nor all the~herbs of all the people
1716 27 | nor all the~herbs of all the people of other lands. Therefore,
1717 27 | compelled to believe that the~Omnipotent hath willed anything
1718 28 | CHAPTER XXVIII - The Destiny of Man~~
1719 28 | willed to preserve even the first man in that state
1720 28 | him in due season, after the begetting~of children, to
1721 28 | to a better state without the intervention of death -
1722 28 | would not have had even the will to sin - if he had
1723 28 | doing evil, and so~that the good will of the Omnipotent
1724 28 | so~that the good will of the Omnipotent should be nullified
1725 28 | Omnipotent should be nullified by the bad will of men, but should~
1726 28 | man should be created, in the first place, so that he
1727 28 | without reward, if he willed the good; not without punishment,
1728 28 | punishment, if ~he willed the evil. But in the future
1729 28 | willed the evil. But in the future life he will not
1730 28 | future life he will not have the power to will evil; and
1731 28 | unable to will iniquity. But the ordered course of God's
1732 28 | willed to show how good the rational creature is that
1733 28 | capable of not dying, even if the higher order which is~to
1734 28(229)| capacities included both the power not to sin and the
1735 28(229)| the power not to sin and the power to sin (posse non
1736 28(229)| s original sin, man lost the posse non peccare (the power
1737 28(229)| lost the posse non peccare (the power not to sin) and retained
1738 28(229)| not to sin) and retained the posse peccare (the power
1739 28(229)| retained the posse peccare (the power to sin) - which he
1740 28(229)| continues to exercise. In the fulfillment of grace, man
1741 28(229)| of grace, man will have the posse peccare taken away
1742 28(229)| peccare taken away and receive the highest of all, the power
1743 28(229)| receive the highest of all, the power not to be able to
1744 28 | 106. Human nature lost the former kind of immortality
1745 28 | kind of immortality through the misuse of free will. It
1746 28 | free will. It is~to receive the latter through grace - though
1747 28 | had been afforded man, in the gift of participation in
1748 28 | gift of participation in the~immutable good. Thus, for
1749 28 | good. Thus, for example, the power to die when he wills
1750 28 | mention other means). But~the bare will is not sufficient
1751 28 | for maintaining life, if the aids of food and other means
1752 28 | by an act of~will; yet if the life of justice was to be
1753 28 | given him aid. But, after the Fall, God's mercy was even
1754 28 | more abundant,~for then the will itself had to be freed
1755 28 | itself had to be freed from the bondage in which sin and
1756 28 | which sin and death are the masters. ~There is no way
1757 28 | which is~made effectual in the faith of Christ. Thus, as
1758 28 | as it is written, even the will by which "the will
1759 28 | even the will by which "the will itself~is prepared
1760 28 | will itself~is prepared by the Lord"~231 so that we may
1761 28 | so that we may receive the other gifts of God through
1762 28 | through which we~come to the Gift eternal - this too
1763 28 | 107. Accordingly, even the life eternal, which is surely
1764 28 | eternal, which is surely the wages of good works, is
1765 28 | called a~_gift_ of God by the apostle. "For the wages
1766 28 | God by the apostle. "For the wages of sin," he says, "
1767 28 | he says, "is death; but the gift of God is ~eternal
1768 28 | a gift. Hence, he said "the wages of sin is death,"
1769 28 | him was done; for, from the same mass of perdition that
1770 28 | another for ignoble use"~234; the ones~for honorable use through
1771 28 | honorable use through his mercy, the ones for ignoble use through
1772 28 | glory in man, or - what is the same thing - in himself. ~
1773 28 | redeemed, even through "the one Mediator between God
1774 28 | however, had widely~separated the human race from God, it
1775 28 | departed from God, when~by the incarnate God he is recalled
1776 28 | example of obedience by the God - Man; that the fount
1777 28 | obedience by the God - Man; that the fount of grace might be
1778 28 | be opened up; that even the ~resurrection of the body -
1779 28 | even the ~resurrection of the body - itself promised to
1780 28 | body - itself promised to the redeemed - might be previewed
1781 28 | might be previewed in the~resurrection of the Redeemer
1782 28 | previewed in the~resurrection of the Redeemer himself; that the
1783 28 | the Redeemer himself; that the devil might be vanquished
1784 28 | from so great a~mystery of the Mediator, which those who
1785 29 | CHAPTER XXIX - "The Last Things"~~
1786 29 | 109. Now, for the time that intervenes between
1787 29 | between man's death and the final resurrection, there
1788 29 | merited while it lived in the body.~
1789 29 | There is no denying that the souls of the dead are benefited
1790 29 | denying that the souls of the dead are benefited by the
1791 29 | the dead are benefited by the piety of their living~friends,
1792 29 | their living~friends, when the sacrifice of the Mediator
1793 29 | friends, when the sacrifice of the Mediator is offered for
1794 29 | Mediator is offered for the dead, or alms are given
1795 29 | dead, or alms are given in the ~church. But these means
1796 29 | whereby a man's condition in the life hereafter is improved
1797 29 | then, those means which the Church constantly uses in
1798 29 | uses in interceding for the dead are not~opposed to
1799 29 | opposed to that statement of the apostle when he said, "For
1800 29 | of us shall stand before the ~tribunal of Christ, so
1801 29 | according to what he has done in the body, whether~good or evil."~236
1802 29 | himself while living in the body earned the merit~whereby
1803 29 | living in the body earned the merit~whereby these means
1804 29 | unless it be because of the different kinds of lives
1805 29 | kinds of lives men lead in the~body? Accordingly, when
1806 29 | when sacrifices, whether of the altar or of alms, are offered
1807 29 | of alms, are offered for the baptized~dead, they are
1808 29 | are thank offerings for the very good, propitiations
1809 29 | good, propitiations for the not-so-very-bad [non valde ~
1810 29 | valde ~malis], and, as for the very bad - even if they
1811 29 | if they are of no help to the dead - they are at least
1812 29 | a sort~of consolation to the living. Where they are of
1813 29 | 111. After the resurrection, however, when
1814 29 | resurrection, however, when the general judgment has been
1815 29 | been held and finished,~the boundary lines will be set
1816 29 | boundary lines will be set for the two cities: the one of Christ,
1817 29 | set for the two cities: the one of Christ, the other
1818 29 | cities: the one of Christ, the other of the devil; one
1819 29 | of Christ, the other of the devil; one for~the good,
1820 29 | other of the devil; one for~the good, the other for the
1821 29 | devil; one for~the good, the other for the bad - both
1822 29 | the good, the other for the bad - both including angels
1823 29 | including angels and men. In the one group, there will be~
1824 29 | will be~no will to sin, in the other, no power to sin,
1825 29 | further possibility of dying. The citizens of~the first commonwealth
1826 29 | of dying. The citizens of~the first commonwealth will
1827 29 | happily in life eternal. The second will go on,~miserable
1828 29 | with no power to die to it. The condition of both societies
1829 29 | fixed and endless. But in the first city, some will outrank
1830 29 | others in bliss, and in the second,~some will have a
1831 29 | human feelings~and deplore the notion of the eternal punishment
1832 29 | and deplore the notion of the eternal punishment of the
1833 29 | the eternal punishment of the damned and their interminable
1834 29 | terrify than to express~the literal truth. "God will
1835 29 | mercy." This is, in fact, the text of a holy psalm.~237
1836 29 | so, if they suppose that the text~applies to all men,
1837 29 | there will also be an end to the happiness of those of whom
1838 29 | happiness of those of whom the ~antithesis was said: "But
1839 29 | antithesis was said: "But the righteous into life eternal."
1840 29 | certain intervals of time, the punishments of the damned
1841 29 | time, the punishments of the damned are somewhat mitigated. ~
1842 29 | somewhat mitigated. ~Even so, the wrath of God must be understood
1843 29 | not a violent passion in the divine mind, is called "
1844 29 | respite in their~torments. For the psalm does not say, "To
1845 29 | it were~present only in the slightest degree conceivable -
1846 29 | still, to be lost out of the Kingdom of God, to~be an
1847 29 | God, to~be an exile from the City of God, to be estranged
1848 29 | God, to be estranged from the life of God, to suffer loss
1849 29 | of God, to suffer loss of the great~abundance of God's
1850 29 | 113. The eternal death of the damned -
1851 29 | 113. The eternal death of the damned - that is, their
1852 29 | their estrangement from the life of God - will~therefore
1853 29 | gradations of punishment, or the relief or~intermission of
1854 29 | intermission of their misery. In the same way, the eternal life
1855 29 | misery. In the same way, the eternal life of the saints
1856 29 | way, the eternal life of the saints will abide forever,
1857 29 | no matter how different the grades of rank and honor
1858 30 | CHAPTER XXX - The Principles of Christian
1859 30 | briefly ~summarized in the Creed (which is milk for
1860 30 | for babes when pondered at the carnal level but food for~
1861 30 | spiritually), there is born the good _hope_ of the ~faithful,
1862 30 | born the good _hope_ of the ~faithful, accompanied by
1863 30 | hope_ are contained in the Lord's ~Prayer. For "cursed
1864 30 | cursed is everyone," as the divine eloquence testified, "
1865 30(241)| Note the artificial return to the
1866 30(241)| the artificial return to the triadic scheme of the treatise:
1867 30(241)| to the triadic scheme of the treatise: faith, hope, and
1868 30 | hope in himself is bound by the bond of this curse. ~Therefore,
1869 30 | seek from none other than the Lord God whatever it is
1870 30 | 115. Accordingly, in the Evangelist Matthew, the
1871 30 | the Evangelist Matthew, the Lord's Prayer may be seen
1872 30 | them ask for eternal goods, the other four for temporal
1873 30 | necessary for obtaining the eternal goods.~For when
1874 30 | which is to be hoped for in the~other life - they will be
1875 30 | pertain to our needs in the present life? In~that life
1876 30 | where we all hope to be - the hallowing of God's name,
1877 30 | because it is necessary, in the measure required by soul
1878 30 | and body, whether we take the~term in a spiritual or bodily
1879 30 | petition for forgiveness,~where the sins are committed; here
1880 30 | committed; here too are the temptations that allure
1881 30 | sinning;~here, finally, the evil from which we wish
1882 30 | 116. However, the Evangelist Luke, in his
1883 30 | Luke, in his version of the Lord's Prayer, has brought
1884 30 | rather, in his brief way, the Evangelist~has shown us
1885 30 | Evangelist~has shown us how the seven petitions should be
1886 30 | is even now~hallowed in the spirit, but the Kingdom
1887 30 | hallowed in the spirit, but the Kingdom of God is yet to
1888 30 | of God is yet to come in the resurrection of the body. ~
1889 30 | come in the resurrection of the body. ~Therefore, Luke was
1890 30 | was seeking to show that the third petition ["Thy will
1891 30 | done"] is a repetition~of the first two, and makes this
1892 30 | However, what Matthew puts in the last place, "But deliver
1893 31 | regarding _love_, which the apostle says is greater
1894 31 | apostle says is greater than the other two - that~is, faith
1895 31 | is, faith and hope - for the more richly it dwells in
1896 31 | richly it dwells in a man, the better the man in whom it
1897 31 | dwells in a man, the better the man in whom it dwells. ~
1898 31 | may through prayer obtain the gift of love. For, although
1899 31 | love it, he cannot realize the object of his hopes. An
1900 31 | comes to it.~Now this is the true faith of Christ which
1901 31 | true faith of Christ which the apostle commends: faith
1902 31 | For faith achieves what the law commands [fides~namque
1903 31 | lex imperat]. And, without the gift of God - that is, without
1904 31 | of God - that is, without the Holy~Spirit, through whom
1905 31 | shed abroad in our hearts - the law may bid but it cannot
1906 31 | For appetite reigns where the love of God does not.~247~
1907 31 | 118. When, in the deepest shadows of ignorance,
1908 31 | ignorance, he lives according to the flesh with no~restraint
1909 31 | restraint of reason - this is the primal state of man.~248
1910 31 | Afterward, when "through the law the ~knowledge of sin"~249
1911 31 | Afterward, when "through the law the ~knowledge of sin"~249 has
1912 31(248)| to Freud's description of the Id, the primal core of our
1913 31(248)| s description of the Id, the primal core of our unconscious
1914 31 | has come to man, and the Holy Spirit has not yet
1915 31 | wishes to live according to the law, he is vanquished -
1916 31 | knowingly and is~brought under the spell and made the slave
1917 31 | under the spell and made the slave of sin, "for by whatever
1918 31 | vanquished, of this~master he is the ~slave"~250. The effect
1919 31 | master he is the ~slave"~250. The effect of the knowledge
1920 31 | slave"~250. The effect of the knowledge of the law is
1921 31 | effect of the knowledge of the law is that sin works in
1922 31 | is that sin works in man the whole round of~concupiscence,
1923 31 | concupiscence, which adds to the guilt of the first transgression.
1924 31 | which adds to the guilt of the first transgression. And
1925 31 | written is fulfilled: "The law entered in, that the
1926 31 | The law entered in, that the offense might abound."~251
1927 31 | might abound."~251 This is the~_second_ state of man.~252~
1928 31 | man begins to be led by the Spirit of God, then the
1929 31 | the Spirit of God, then the mightier power of love~struggles
1930 31 | of love~struggles against the power of the flesh.~253
1931 31 | struggles against the power of the flesh.~253 And although
1932 31(252)| Compare the psychological notion of
1933 31(252)| psychological notion of the effect of external moral
1934 31 | yet fully healed - yet he [the righteous man] ~lives by
1935 31 | righteousness. This is the _third_ stage of the man
1936 31 | is the _third_ stage of the man of good hope. A final
1937 31 | perfected beyond this life in the repose of the spirit, and,
1938 31 | this life in the repose of the spirit, and, at the last,
1939 31 | repose of the spirit, and, at the last, in the resurrection
1940 31 | spirit, and, at the last, in the resurrection of~the body.~
1941 31 | in the resurrection of~the body.~Of these four different
1942 31 | different stages of man, the first is before the law,
1943 31 | man, the first is before the law, the second is under
1944 31 | first is before the law, the second is under the law,~
1945 31 | law, the second is under the law,~the third is under
1946 31 | second is under the law,~the third is under grace, and
1947 31 | third is under grace, and the fourth is in full and perfect
1948 31 | perfect peace. Thus, also, the history of~God's people
1949 31 | number and weight."~254 The first period was before
1950 31 | first period was before the law; the ~second under the
1951 31 | period was before the law; the ~second under the law, which
1952 31 | the law; the ~second under the law, which was given through
1953 31 | was given through Moses; the next, under grace which
1954 31 | which was revealed~through the first Advent of the Mediator."~255
1955 31 | through the first Advent of the Mediator."~255 This grace
1956 31 | although, in conformity to the temporal dispensations,
1957 31 | and hidden. For none of the righteous men of antiquity
1958 31 | find salvation apart from the ~faith of Christ. And, unless
1959 31 | one can call them that - the grace of~regeneration finds
1960 31 | sins are forgiven him and the guilt he ~contracted in
1961 31 | And so true is it that "the Spirit~breatheth where he
1962 31 | some men have never known the second "age" of slavery~
1963 31 | second "age" of slavery~under the law, but begin to have divine
1964 31 | divine aid directly under the new ~commandment.~
1965 31 | before a man can receive the commandment, he must, of
1966 31 | course, live according to~the flesh. But, once he has
1967 31 | he has been imbued with the sacrament of rebirth, no
1968 31 | again, that he might be the Lord of both the living
1969 31 | might be the Lord of both the living and the dead."'~257
1970 31 | Lord of both the living and the dead."'~257 Nor will the
1971 31 | the dead."'~257 Nor will the kingdom of~death have dominion
1972 31 | He, who was "free among the dead,"~258 died.~~
1973 32 | CHAPTER XXXII The End of All the Law~~
1974 32 | CHAPTER XXXII The End of All the Law~~
1975 32 | 121. All the divine precepts are, therefore,
1976 32 | back to _love_, of which the apostle says,~"Now the end
1977 32 | which the apostle says,~"Now the end of the commandment is
1978 32 | apostle says,~"Now the end of the commandment is love, out
1979 32 | it does not measure up to the ~standard of love which
1980 32 | standard of love which the Holy Spirit sheds abroad
1981 32 | of course includes both ~the love of God and the love
1982 32 | both ~the love of God and the love of our neighbor and,
1983 32 | two commandments hang all~the Law and the Prophets"~260 -
1984 32 | commandments hang all~the Law and the Prophets"~260 - and, we
1985 32 | and, we may add, the gospel and the apostles,
1986 32 | may add, the gospel and the apostles, for from~nowhere
1987 32 | from~nowhere else comes the voice, "The end of the commandment
1988 32 | nowhere else comes the voice, "The end of the commandment is
1989 32 | comes the voice, "The end of the commandment is love,"~261
1990 32 | when they are measured by the~standard of our love of
1991 32 | Deum]. This applies~both in the present age and in the world
1992 32 | in the present age and in the world to come. Now we love
1993 32 | ourselves, we do not know the hearts of mortal men. But
1994 32 | of mortal men. But then "the Lord will~illuminate the
1995 32 | the Lord will~illuminate the hidden things in the darkness
1996 32 | illuminate the hidden things in the darkness and will make manifest
1997 32 | darkness and will make manifest the cogitations of the heart;~
1998 32 | manifest the cogitations of the heart;~and then shall each
1999 32 | then, can explain how great the power of love will be, when
2000 32 | or overcome? For, then, the supreme state of true~health [