Chapter

 1   1|                      1. I cannot say, my dearest son Laurence,
 2   1|       hope, love. It is easy to _say_ what one ought to believe,
 3   2|          it.~What, then, shall I say of love, without which faith
 4   4|      being, is good, if we then ~say that a defective thing is
 5   4|                  15. But when we say that evil has its source
 6   5|     thing would~be to be able to say, in speech or judgment: "
 7   6|      concerned, since he did not say what he believed, he did
 8   6|         his mistakes. But when I say that in such a case a~man
 9   7|        error for parents"~37 - I say I do not know whether these
10   7|     positive assent. Indeed they say it is an error if ~someone
11   7|       the gain. Yet no one would say that such a theft was not
12   9|         is from both, that is to say, from the will of man~and
13   9|       the will of man. But if we say rightly that "it is not
14   9|          Christian~would dare to say, "It is not a matter of
15  10|          in him."~66 He does not say, "It will come," but, "It
16  10|         was required; that is to say, a Reconciler who by offering
17  10|        It would take too long to say all that would be truly
18  10|       justified,"~71 which is to say, no _man_ shall be justified.
19  10| justified. Yet certainly we must say that in that~assumption
20  12|             38. Are we, then, to say that the Holy Spirit is
21  12|          Mary? Who would dare to say such a thing? There is no
22  12|         Spirit.~How, then, do we say that Christ is born of the
23  12|        this world, one could not~say that the world is the son
24  13|         in ~him."~83 He does not say, as we read in some defective
25  13|         him he could then, so to say, die to sin by dying in
26  13|         serpent."~85 It does not say "serpents," as it ~might,
27  13|         the plural number, as we say when infants~are baptized "
28  13|         s ~life"~86; it does not say, "He is dead." And in Exodus: "
29  13|     single sin is divided, so to say, into its separate elements.
30  13|         her womb."~91 Nor did he say~"in iniquity" or "in sin,"
31  13|          rather, he preferred to say "iniquities"~and "sins,"
32  14|        was originally and, so to say, radically condemned. ~It
33  14|      asks: "What, then, shall we say? Shall we continue in sin,
34  14|     death of Christ in order to ~say that even he died to sin.
35  15|        me . . ."~122 He does not say, "Spoke ~_to_ me" but "Spoke _
36  17|          is a crime. Thus we can say of the life of holy men
37  17|        without crime. "But if we say that we have no sin,"~as
38  18|               He then goes on to say, "If a man says he has faith,
39  18|        through due repentance. I say "due repentance" to signify
40  18|         his left - when he shall say to the former, ~"Come, blessed
41  19|       satisfaction. For they can say, "Our Father who art in
42  19|          that just as they truly say, "Forgive us our debts"~(
43  19|    forgiven), so also they truly say, "As we forgive our~debtors"~156;
44  19|      heard~when, in prayer, they say, "Forgive us our debts,
45  20|        Pharisees"~169 - as if to say, "I~am advising you to give
46  21|       apostle not ~added, "But I say this as a concession, not
47  21|          in the Church's eyes. I say this to shame you. Can it
48  21|        Lord daily and often, and say, "Forgive us our debts,"~
49  22|         sinned, as we do when we say, "Forgive~us our debts as
50  22|           and this we do when we say, "Lead us not into ~temptation" -
51  22| Otherwise, the apostle would not say~of some men, "In case God
52  23|         be "reborn." ~For, if we say that there is a resurrection
53  23|     faults. Far be it from us to say of that~double-limbed man
54  23|             far be it from us, I say, to suppose that at the
55  23|         then death itself, so to say, dies not; and where pain~
56  24|       can, we would then have to say that they ~were saved against
57  25|          impiously foolish as to say that God cannot turn the
58  25|          What therefore shall~we say to this? Is there unrighteousness
59  25|         this in such a way as to say: "Why then~does he find
60  25|           Does the molded object say to the~molder, 'Why have
61  28|      fault with such a will, nor say it is~no will, or that it
62  29|       God will not forget," they say, "to show mercy, nor in
63  29|           For the psalm does not say, "To put an end to his wrath,"
64  30|       eternal goods.~For when we say: "Hallowed be thy name.
65  30|   possessed forever! But when we say: "Give us this day our daily