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501 13 | which was "the likeness~of sin." And since he had never
502 13 | lived in the old manner of sinning, he might, in his
503 13 | 42. This is the meaning of the great sacrament of baptism,
504 13 | meaning of the great sacrament of baptism, which is celebrated
505 13 | that is, "in the likeness of sin" - and they are thereby
506 13 | case no matter what the age~of the body.~
507 13 | deed. Actually, by the use of the singular number the
508 13 | is signified by the use of the plural number, as we
509 13 | baptized "unto the remission of sins," instead of saying "
510 13 | remission of sins," instead of saying "unto the remission
511 13 | saying "unto the remission of sin," then we~have the converse
512 13 | in the~Gospel, it is said of Herod's death, "For they
513 13 | says, "to~themselves gods of gold," when they had made
514 13 | they had made one calf. And of this calf, they said: "These
515 13 | Israel, which brought you out of the land of Egypt,"~87 here
516 13 | brought you out of the land of Egypt,"~87 here also putting
517 13 | men,"~88 and on account of which infants are baptized -
518 13 | can recognize a plurality of sins, if~that single sin
519 13 | rule rather than the rule of God; and sacrilege too,
520 13 | fornication, for~the integrity of the human mind was corrupted
521 13 | corrupted by the seduction of the serpent; and theft,
522 13 | in the diligent analysis of~that one sin.~
523 13 | are involved in the sins of their~parents, not only
524 13 | their~parents, not only of the first pair, but even
525 13 | the first pair, but even of their own, of whom they
526 13 | but even of their own, of whom they were born. Indeed,
527 13 | I shall visit the sins of the fathers on their children,"~89
528 13 | This is why each one of them must be born again,
529 13 | may thereby be absolved of~whatever sin was in him
530 13 | sin was in him at the time of birth. For the sins committed
531 13 | such a degree that one born of even a lawful wedlock said, "
532 13 | brought~under the necessity of death - and also because
533 13 | other sins, such as those of parents,~which, even if
534 13 | gracious grace and mercy of God interpose.~
535 13 | 47. But, in the matter of the sins of one's other
536 13 | in the matter of the sins of one's other parents, those
537 13 | involved in the evil deeds of all his forebears, and their
538 13 | threatens~to visit the sins of the parents as far as -
539 13 | those~not given the grace of regeneration be crushed
540 13 | original guilt, all the sins of their~ancestors from the
541 13 | ancestors from the beginning of the human race, and to pay
542 13 | search and interpretation of Holy Scripture, I dare not
543 14 | CHAPTER XIV - The Mysteries of Christ's Mediatorial Work (
544 14 | committed in a setting of such great happiness, was
545 14 | prepared_ by the ministry of this forerunner,~who said, "
546 14 | reborn by that same Spirit, of whom Christ also was born,
547 14 | the reason for the Voice of the Father spoken over him
548 14 | baptized, but to that "day" of changeless eternity, in
549 14 | belonged to~the personal Unity of the Only Begotten. For a
550 14 | neither begins with the close of~yesterday nor ends with
551 14 | ends with the beginning of tomorrow is indeed an eternal "
552 14 | thereby to wash away any sin of his own, but to~manifest
553 14 | was in no way~deserving of death, he also did most
554 14 | baptism and death, not out of ~a piteous necessity but
555 14 | through his own free act of showing mercy - as part
556 14 | showing mercy - as part of a definite plan~whereby
557 14 | might take away the sin of the world, just as one man
558 14 | apostle says, "And the gift [of grace] is not like the effect
559 14 | is not like the effect of the one that sinned: for
560 14 | condemnation; but the gift of grace is for many offenses,
561 14 | others and also the~multitude of sins which he has committed
562 14 | Therefore, as the offense of one man~led all men to condemnation,
563 14 | so also the righteousness of one man leads all men to
564 14 | leads all men to the life of ~justification,"~97 he indicates
565 14 | sufficiently that everyone born of Adam is subject to damnation,~
566 14 | and no one, unless reborn of Christ, is free from such
567 14 | And after this discussion of punishment through one man
568 14 | sufficient for that part of the epistle, the apostle
569 14 | apostle passes on to speak of the great ~mystery of holy
570 14 | speak of the great ~mystery of holy baptism in the cross
571 14 | holy baptism in the cross of Christ, and to do this so
572 14 | nothing~other in the baptism of Christ than the likeness
573 14 | Christ than the likeness of the death of Christ. The
574 14 | the likeness of the death of Christ. The death of Christ ~
575 14 | death of Christ. The death of Christ ~crucified is nothing
576 14 | other than the likeness of the forgiveness of sins -
577 14 | likeness of the forgiveness of sins - so that in the very
578 14 | also is the forgiveness of our sins real, and in the
579 14 | question whether, because of the abundance of grace that
580 14 | because of the abundance of grace that follows~sin,
581 14 | baptized into the death of Christ shows that we are
582 14 | his death." And the effect of this is to show that we
583 14 | from the dead by the glory of the Father, even so we also
584 14 | should walk in~the newness of life. For if we have been
585 14 | with him in the likeness of his death, we shall be~also
586 14 | with him in the likeness of his resurrection, knowing
587 14 | with him, that the body of sin might be destroyed,
588 14 | Know you ~not, that as many of us as were baptized into
589 14 | he introduced the death of Christ in order to ~say
590 14 | To what sin, save that of the flesh in which he existed,
591 14 | sinner,~but in "the likeness of sin" and which was, therefore,
592 14 | therefore, called by the name of sin? Thus, to ~those baptized
593 14 | baptized into the death of Christ - into which not
594 14 | therefore, in the crucifixion of Christ, his burial, his
595 14 | here on the earth. Thus, of his crucifixion it was said,~"
596 14 | lusts ~thereof"~103; and of his burial, "For we are
597 14 | by baptism into death"; of his~resurrection, "Since
598 14 | the dead through the glory of the Father, so we also ~
599 14 | walk with him in newness of life"; of his ascension
600 14 | him in newness of life"; of his ascension and session
601 14 | sitting~at the right hand of God. Set your affection
602 14 | not pertain to this life of ours as~we live it here
603 14 | he will do~at the close of the age. To this the apostle
604 14 | For sometimes~the judgment of God is passed upon the evil,
605 14 | forth] to the resurrection of judgment."~106 And sometimes
606 14 | Indeed, it is~by the judgment of God that the distinction
607 15 | Now, when we have spoken of Jesus Christ, the only Son
608 15 | Jesus Christ, the only Son of God our Lord, in the brevity~
609 15 | befitting our confession of faith, we go on to affirm
610 15 | the supreme Trinity. For, of course, all that has been~
611 15 | Jesus refers to the unity of the Person of the Only Begotten.~
612 15 | the unity of the Person of the Only Begotten.~Thus,
613 15 | Begotten.~Thus, the right order of the Creed demanded~110 that
614 15 | here on earth~from rising of the sun to its setting,
615 15 | setting, praising the name of the Lord~111 and singing
616 15 | and singing a new song~of deliverance from its old
617 15 | never experienced the evils of a fall. This part, composed~
618 15 | fall. This part, composed~of the holy angels, remains
619 15 | they~are one in the bond of love - the whole instituted
620 15 | instituted for the proper worship of the one God.~112 ~Wherefore,
621 15 | whole Church nor any part of it wishes to be worshiped
622 15 | belonging to the temple of God - the temple that is
623 15 | temple that is being built up of "the gods" ~whom the uncreated
624 15 | for this is the highest of the levels of ~creation.
625 15 | the highest of the levels of ~creation. But in this case
626 15 | would not be set in the rule of faith _before_ the Church,
627 15 | the Church, in that part of it which is in heaven. He
628 15 | in fact, he hath a temple of which the apostle~speaks, "
629 15 | your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit, who is
630 15 | In another place, he says of this body, "Know you not
631 15 | your bodies~are members of Christ?"~115 How, then,
632 15 | that you are the temple of God," and~then, as if to
633 15 | added, "and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?" God~
634 15 | Father and Son, who saith of~his body - in which he standeth
635 15 | which he standeth as Head of the Church on earth "that
636 15 | Therefore, the temple of God - that is, of the supreme
637 15 | temple of God - that is, of the supreme Trinity as a
638 15 | we affirm about that part of the Church in heaven, save
639 15 | delivered them into~the prisons of darkness in hell, to be
640 15 | the sentence in the Day of Judgment"~118?~
641 15 | the Hebrews, "But to which of the angels said he at any
642 15 | I confess to ignorance of such matters. I am not even
643 15 | who can explain the kind of bodies in which the angels
644 15 | how do they, not by impact of ~physical stimulus but by
645 15 | but to the~spiritual eyes of the mind, or speak something,
646 15 | it is written in the book~of the Prophets: "And the angel
647 15 | Gospel: "Behold, the angel of the Lord appeared to him
648 15 | By these various modes of presentation, the angels
649 15 | and one avoids the mistake of those~who think they know
650 16 | Heavenly and Earthly Divisions of the Church~~
651 16 | transforms himself as an~angel of light, lest by this deception
652 16 | which one leads the life of faith, there is no danger
653 16 | would fit the character of the good angels, even if~
654 16 | Yet the very difficulty of~this business is useful
655 16 | 61. This part of the Church, therefore, which
656 16 | therefore, which is composed of the holy angels and powers
657 16 | the holy angels and powers of~God will become known to
658 16 | is only when, at the end of the age, we are joined to
659 16 | because it ~is composed of men like ourselves. This
660 16 | from all sin by the~blood of the sinless Mediator, and
661 16 | Moreover, this redemption of mankind serves to~repair
662 16 | 62. Of course, the holy angels,
663 16 | the eternal contemplation of whose truth~they are blessed -
664 16 | blessed - know how many of the human race are required
665 16 | fill up the full census of ~that commonwealth. This
666 16 | replaced from the ranks of mankind. The~part on earth
667 16 | redeemed from the old~state of corruption.~Thus by the
668 16 | by the single sacrifice, of which the many victims of
669 16 | of which the many victims of the law were only shadows,
670 16 | pleased God that all plenitude of being should dwell~in him
671 16 | peace with them by the blood of his ~cross, whether those
672 16 | among the whole company of rational creatures and between
673 16 | understanding, not that of those who always see the
674 16 | understanding. But the peace of God, which is there, will~
675 16 | and theirs as well. For, of course, in so far as a rational~
676 16 | the passage, "The peace of God which passes all understanding,"
677 16 | not even the understanding of the holy angels should be
678 16 | understanding is excepted; for, of course, his peace does not
679 17 | CHAPTER XVII - Forgiveness of Sins in the Church~~
680 17 | Therefore, in~the order of the Creed, after the reference
681 17 | reference to ~"forgiveness of sins." For it is by this
682 17 | is by this that the part of the Church on earth stands;
683 17 | is not lost again. Of course, the gift of baptism
684 17 | again. Of course, the gift of baptism is an~exception.
685 17 | actual sins as well, whether of heart,~word, or deed. But
686 17 | remission - the beginning point of a man's renewal, in~which
687 17 | is washed away - the rest of life, from the age of~accountability (
688 17 | rest of life, from the age of~accountability (and no matter
689 17 | need for the forgiveness of sins. This is the case because
690 17 | the case because the sons of God, as long as they live~
691 17 | although it is truly said of them, "As many as~are led
692 17 | as~are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of
693 17 | of God, they are the sons of God,"~133 yet even as they
694 17 | being led by~the Spirit of God and, as sons of God,
695 17 | Spirit of God and, as sons of God, advance toward God,
696 17 | a crime. Thus we can say of the life of holy men even
697 17 | Thus we can say of the life of holy men even while~they
698 17 | should never be~despaired of in holy Church for those
699 17 | according to the measure of his sin. ~And, in the act
700 17 | his sin. ~And, in the act of repentance,~135 where a
701 17 | crime has been committed of such gravity as also to~
702 17 | the sinner from the body of Christ, we should not consider
703 17 | not consider the measure of time as much as~the measure
704 17 | time as much as~the measure of sorrow. For, "a contrite
705 17(135)| Luther's similar conception of poenitentiam agite in the
706 17 | Still, since the sorrow of one heart is mostly hid
707 17 | when it is plain to Him of whom it is said, "My ~groaning
708 17 | hid from thee"~137 - times of repentance have been rightly
709 17 | sins are ~forgiven. For, of course, outside her they
710 17 | has received the~pledge of the Holy Spirit,~138 without
711 17 | there is no forgiveness of sins. Those forgiven~thus
712 17 | 66. Now the remission of sins has chiefly to do with
713 17 | heavy yoke is on the sons of Adam, from the day they
714 17 | mother's womb till the day of their burial in the mother
715 17 | their burial in the mother of us all."~139 Thus we see~
716 17 | infants, after the washing of regeneration, tortured by
717 17 | understand that the whole import of the ~sacraments of salvation
718 17 | import of the ~sacraments of salvation has to do more
719 17 | to do more with the hope of future goods than with the
720 17 | the retaining or~attaining of present goods. Indeed, many
721 17 | that the day when the Judge of the~living and the dead
722 17 | is rightly called the Day of Judgment. Just so, on the
723 18(141)| important clue to the date of the Enchiridion and an interesting
724 18(141)| treatise on The Eight Questions of Dulcitius (De octo Dulcitii
725 18(141)| entire chapter as a part of his answer to the question
726 18(141)| delivered from hell. The date of the De octo is 422 or, possibly,
727 18(141)| terminus ad quem for the date of the Enchiridion. Still the
728 18(141)| Enchiridion. Still the best text of De octo is Migne, PL, 40,
729 18(141)| Various Subjects (The Fathers of the Church, New York, 1952),
730 18 | do not abandon the name of Christ,~and who are baptized
731 18 | it seems to me, by a kind~of merely human ~benevolence.
732 18(142)| emphases by analyzing what kind of faith and what kind of works
733 18(142)| kind of faith and what kind of works are _both_ essential
734 18(142)| salvation. The best text is that of Joseph Zycha in CSEL, Vol.
735 18(142)| C.L. Cornish in A Library of Fathers of the Holy Catholic
736 18(142)| in A Library of Fathers of the Holy Catholic Church;
737 18 | saved by fire on account of his faith only, and if this
738 18 | is the~way the statement of the blessed Paul should
739 18 | would be another statement of the ~same Paul himself: "
740 18 | shall inherit the Kingdom of God."~147 Now, if those
741 18 | not then be in the Kingdom of ~God?~
742 18 | not perishing on~account of the saving worth of their
743 18 | account of the saving worth of their foundation - such
744 18 | still prefer to suffer loss~of the things he greatly loves
745 18 | by fire." But if, in time of~testing, he should prefer
746 18 | foundations.~Now, this fire, of which the apostle speaks,
747 18 | through which both~kinds of men must pass: that is,
748 18 | For, when he had spoken~of this, he added: "The fire
749 18 | shall try every man's work, of what sort it is. If any
750 18 | test~the work, not only of the one, but of both.~The
751 18 | not only of the one, but of both.~The fire is a sort
752 18 | both.~The fire is a sort of trial of affliction, concerning
753 18 | fire is a sort of trial of affliction, concerning which
754 18 | s vessels and the trial of affliction tests righteous
755 18 | righteous men."~150 This kind of~fire works in the span of
756 18 | of~fire works in the span of this life, just as the apostle
757 18 | the two different kinds of~faithful men. There is,
758 18 | example, the man who "thinks of the things of God, how he
759 18 | who "thinks of the things of God, how he may~please God."
760 18 | thinks about the things of the world, how he may please
761 18 | hay, and stubble. The work of the former is not~burned
762 18 | brings anguish. But the work of the~latter is burned up,
763 18 | prefers to suffer the loss of these~things rather than
764 18 | desert Christ from fear of losing such things - even~
765 18 | and the indestructibility of his foundation.~
766 18 | remain hidden whether some of the faithful are sooner
767 18 | later to be saved~by a sort of purgatorial fire, in proportion
768 18 | does not apply to those of whom it was~said, "They
769 18 | not possess the Kingdom of God,"~152 unless their crimes
770 18 | they must not be barren of~almsgiving, on which divine
771 18 | that,~on the bare basis of fruitfulness in alms, he
772 18 | and, on~the same basis of unfruitfulness, demerit
773 18 | former, ~"Come, blessed of my Father, receive the Kingdom,"
774 19 | not possess the Kingdom of God" can be perpetrated
775 19 | redeemed by almsgiving. Of course, life must be changed
776 19 | passing and trivial sins of every day, from which no
777 19 | free, the everyday~prayer of the faithful makes satisfaction.
778 19 | which once made the life of~the faithful wicked, but
779 19 | departed. The condition of this is that just as they
780 19 | since there is no lack of debts to be forgiven), so
781 19 | applies to all useful acts of mercy. Therefore, not only
782 19 | captive, bears the burdens of the weak, ~leads the blind,
783 19 | well. He is also a~giver of alms who, by blows or other
784 19 | Thus, there are many kinds of~alms, by which, when we
785 19 | in obtaining forgiveness of our own sins.~
786 19(158)| is a close approximation of the medieval lists of "The
787 19(158)| approximation of the medieval lists of "The Seven Works of Mercy."
788 19(158)| lists of "The Seven Works of Mercy." Cf. J.T. McNeill,
789 19(158)| J.T. McNeill, A History of the Cure of Souls, pp. 155,
790 19(158)| McNeill, A History of the Cure of Souls, pp. 155, 161. (Harper &
791 19 | 73. But none of these alms is greater than
792 19 | forgiveness from the heart of a sin committed~against
793 19 | is far greater - a sort of magnificent goodness - to
794 19 | are for the perfect sons of God. And although all the
795 19 | still so high a degree of goodness is not possible
796 19 | be doubted that the terms of this pledge are fulfilled
797 19 | forgiveness and is repentant~of his sins can in no way suppose
798 19 | and what hearer and reader of the gospel has not noted
799 19 | am~the Truth"~160? It is, of course, the One who, when
800 20 | For this is the context of it in the Gospel: "As he
801 20 | Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and the dish,~but
802 20 | within you are still full of extortion and wickedness.
803 20 | Pharisees, who had not the faith of Christ, all things ~are
804 20 | in him, nor been reborn of water and the Spirit? But
805 20 | made clean ~by the faith of Christ, of whom it is written, "
806 20 | by the faith of Christ, of whom it is written, "Cleansing
807 20 | give alms as a set plan of his life should begin with
808 20 | For almsgiving is a work of mercy, and the saying is
809 20 | pleasing God."~165 The purpose of the new birth is that we
810 20 | when through the mercy of a merciful God we come to~
811 20 | which we were put~in need of that mercy, of which the
812 20 | put~in need of that mercy, of which the apostle says, "
813 20 | And the same herald of grace then adds (in a word
814 20 | grace then adds (in a word of thanksgiving for~God's great
815 20 | come to a valid estimate of our wretchedness and begin~
816 20 | they gave as alms a tithing of even the least of their
817 20 | tithing of even the least of their fruits,~disregarded
818 20 | this "judgment and love of God." Therefore, they did
819 20 | themselves, nor did they, first of all, show mercy toward themselves.
820 20 | reference to this right~order of self - love, it was said, "
821 20 | inwardly they were still full of extortion and wickedness,
822 20 | to make plain~the import of his admonition, which they
823 20 | that he was not~ignorant of their kind of almsgiving,
824 20 | not~ignorant of their kind of almsgiving, he adds, "But
825 20 | advising you to give the kind of alms which shall make all
826 20 | herb" - "I know these alms of yours and you need not~think
827 20 | neglect justice and the love of God."~"_This_ kind of almsgiving
828 20 | love of God."~"_This_ kind of almsgiving would make you
829 20 | he was rejecting the kind of alms we give of the earth'
830 20 | the kind of alms we give of the earth's bounty, he~adds, "
831 20 | to the judgment and love of God - and~"not omit the
832 20 | however profusely, and whether of their ~fruits or money or
833 20 | continue in the enormity of their~crimes and the grossness
834 20 | crimes and the grossness of their wickedness. For not
835 20 | it according to~God's way of judging. Therefore, if one
836 20 | he gives from the store of Him who ~needs not anything. "
837 21 | CHAPTER XXI - Problems of Casuistry~~
838 21 | we see that, in respect of some sins, even the apostle,
839 21 | Satan tempt you at the point of self - control."~173 One
840 21 | intercourse, not only for the sake of ~procreating children -
841 21 | children - which is the good of marriage - but also for
842 21 | but also for the sake of the carnal~pleasure involved.
843 21 | adultery,~and other kinds of impurity too shameful to
844 21 | where he says, "Dare any of you, having a case against
845 21 | and~that in the presence of ~unbelievers."~175 And here
846 21 | brought back to that saying of the Lord: "If anyone~would
847 21 | suits. And it is because of this teaching that the~apostle
848 21 | apostle says that this kind of action is "a fault." Still,
849 21 | here for the infirmities of the weak.~Because of these
850 21 | infirmities of the weak.~Because of these and similar sins -
851 21 | these and similar sins - and of others even less than these,
852 21 | You fool," is "in danger of hell-fire," if the Truth
853 21 | medicine, adding the precept of brotherly reconciliation: "
854 21 | not infer the magnitude of this evil from the apostle'
855 21 | published abroad - cases of which it is~written, "The
856 21 | is praised in the desires of his soul; and he that works
857 21 | passage in Genesis: "The cry of Sodom~and Gomorrah is ~multiplied,"~185
858 21 | even if not like those ~[of old], have come to be public
859 21 | exclaim: "Woe to the sins of men! We shrink from them~
860 21 | accustomed -~although the blood of the Son of God was shed
861 21 | although the blood of the Son of God was shed to wash them
862 21 | so great~that the Kingdom of God is wholly closed to
863 21 | them, we even practice some of them! But grant, O Lord,
864 21 | that we~do not practice any of them which we could prohibit!"
865 22 | CHAPTER XXII - The Two Causes of Sin~~
866 22 | already seen we ought to do. Of these two, the first is
867 22 | the first is ignorance~of the evil; the second, weakness.~
868 22 | increases, to make our ~love of righteousness victor over
869 22 | righteousness victor over our love of those things because of
870 22 | of those things because of which - either by desiring~
871 22 | make our petitions to Him of whom it is said in the psalm, "
872 22 | is often omitted because of weakness, even when in Church
873 22 | performed. For shame is the fear of displeasing ~men, when a
874 22 | enabled to do so, the mercy of God is prerequisite. Otherwise,
875 22 | the apostle would not say~of some men, "In case God giveth
876 22 | despises so~great a bounty of the divine gifts and ends,
877 22 | day in such an obstinacy of ~mind - that man is guilty
878 22 | mind - that man is guilty of the unpardonable sin against
879 23 | CHAPTER XXIII - The Reality of the Resurrection~~
880 23 | respect to the resurrection of the body - and by this I
881 23 | I do not mean the cases~of resuscitation after which
882 23 | eternal life after the fashion~of Christ's own body - I have
883 23 | the fact that the bodies of all men, whether already
884 23 | established, then, first of all, comes the question
885 23 | at least as much is true~of fetuses that are fully formed.
886 23 | is lacking in the forms of things will be filled out?
887 23 | Nature, then, will be cheated of nothing apt and fitting
888 23 | womb? Is there~some form of hidden life, not yet apparent
889 23 | apparent in the motions of a living thing? To deny,
890 23 | limb by limb and cast out of the~wombs of pregnant women,
891 23 | and cast out of the~wombs of pregnant women, lest the
892 23 | share in the resurrection of the dead.~
893 23 | to be denied in the cases of monsters which are~born
894 23 | Far be it from us to say of that~double-limbed man recently
895 23 | and the presbyter Jerome, of holy memory, has left a
896 23 | other~cases, which, because of some excess or defect or
897 23(193)| similar phenomena in The City of God, XVI. viii, 2.~
898 23 | substance from which the flesh of mortal man is~produced does
899 23 | converted into the substance of other bodies (or even back
900 23 | their flesh - in an instant of time this matter returns
901 23 | which have become ~parts of other things must necessarily
902 23 | return to the same parts of the body in which they were~
903 23 | unbecoming image in the minds of those~who speculate this
904 23 | resurrection. But take the~example of a statue made of fusible
905 23 | example of a statue made of fusible metal: if it were
906 23 | restore it again from the mass of the same~material, it would
907 23 | difference to the wholeness of the restored statue which
908 23 | restored statue which part of it was~remade of what part
909 23 | which part of it was~remade of what part of the metal,
910 23 | was~remade of what part of the metal, so long as the
911 23 | been given all the~material of which it was originally
912 23 | mysterious celerity, out of ~the whole of the matter
913 23 | celerity, out of ~the whole of the matter of which it was
914 23 | the whole of the matter of which it was originally
915 23 | nails, or whether the part of this original~matter that
916 23 | restored to other parts of the body. The~main thing
917 23 | thing is that the providence of the [divine] Artist takes
918 23 | follow that the stature of each person will be different
919 23 | and recognizable likeness of his former self -~while
920 23 | self -~while an equality of physical endowment will
921 23 | preserved - then the matter of which each~resurrection
922 23 | by Him who can create out of nothing as he wills.~But
923 23 | wills.~But if in the bodies of those rising again there
924 23 | by disposing the matter of each body ~so to bring men
925 23 | 91. The bodies of the saints, then, shall
926 23 | not inherit the Kingdom of God," and~then, as if to
927 23 | first called "the Kingdom of God" he then later called "
928 23 | as far as the substance of the resurrection body is
929 23 | flesh." This is why the body of Christ is called "flesh"
930 23 | servant flesh without any need of sustenance therefrom - that
931 23 | liberated from that mass of perdition (brought to pass
932 23 | sinned. Surely, the lightest of all punishments will be
933 23 | proportion to~the lesser degree of their iniquity.~~
934 24 | to Be Awaited in the Life of the World To Come~~
935 24 | through the actual realities of their experience, they will
936 24 | more clearly the~meaning of what is written in The Psalms: "
937 24 | Psalms: "I will sing to thee of mercy and judgment, O~Lord"~199 -
938 24 | not be hidden: when one of two infants is taken up
939 24 | other, when the condition of the two was the same? Or
940 24 | wrought in the presence of certain people who would
941 24 | have repented in the face of miraculous~works, while
942 24 | wrought in the presence of those who were not about
943 24 | Then, in the~clearest light of wisdom, will be seen what
944 24 | and effectual is the will of God, how there are things
945 24(201)| This is one of the rare instances in which
946 24(201)| issue in the interpretation of his doctrine. All but one
947 24(201)| his doctrine. All but one of the major old editions,
948 24(201)| would mean the attribution of a decisive role in human
949 24(201)| general stress in the rest of the Enchiridion and elsewhere
950 24(201)| and even irresistibility of grace. The Jansenist edition
951 24(201)| grace. The Jansenist edition of Augustine, by Arnauld in
952 24(201)| reading became the subject of acrimonious controversy
953 24(201)| vellet, on the strength of much additional MS. evidence
954 24(201)| the overwhelming support of the critical editors, although
955 24(202)| an interesting instance of Augustine's sense of liberty
956 24(202)| instance of Augustine's sense of liberty with the texts of
957 24(202)| of liberty with the texts of Scripture. Here he is doubtless
958 24 | this, the very beginning of our Confession of Faith
959 24 | beginning of our Confession of Faith is imperiled - the~
960 24 | and because the efficacy of his~omnipotent will is not
961 24 | not impeded by the will of any creature.~
962 24 | inquire about the meaning of what was said most truly
963 24 | But this cannot be said of infants, who have not yet
964 24 | not yet come to~the power of willing or not willing.
965 24 | willed to gather the children of Jerusalem~together, and
966 24 | together those children of hers whom he would? It is
967 25 | Predestination and the Justice of God~~
968 25 | cannot turn the evil~wills of men - as he willeth, when
969 25 | he was commending grace, of which he had just spoken
970 25 | that the electing purpose of God might continue - not~
971 25 | divine calling - it was said of them, 'The elder shall serve
972 25 | penetrate to this depth of grace, he adds: "What therefore
973 25 | there were future good deeds of~the one, and evil deeds
974 25 | the one, and evil deeds of the other - which God, of
975 25 | of the other - which God, of course, foreknew - he would
976 25 | would never have ~said "not of good works" but rather "
977 25 | good works" but rather "of _future_ works." Thus he
978 25 | Therefore, it is not a question of him who wills nor of him
979 25 | question of him who wills nor of him who runs but of~God'
980 25 | nor of him who runs but of~God's showing mercy."~210~
981 25 | were "by nature children of wrath,"~211 not because
982 25 | wrath,"~211 not because of any works of~their own,
983 25 | not because of any works of~their own, but because they
984 25 | both bound in the fetters of damnation originally forged
985 25 | justice. Since this judgment [of wrath] was due~them both,
986 25 | gave him no ground to boast of his own distinctive~merits -
987 25 | should glory in the abundance of divine grace, because "it
988 25 | because "it is not a~question of him who wills nor of him
989 25 | question of him who wills nor of him who runs, but of God'
990 25 | nor of him who runs, but of God's showing mercy."~212
991 25 | indeed,~the whole visage of Scripture and, if I may
992 25 | speak so, the lineaments of its ~countenance, are found
993 25(213)| The _religious_ intention of Augustine's emphasis upon
994 25(213)| to account for the doom of the wicked as to underscore
995 25(213)| sheer and wonderful gratuity of salvation.~
996 25 | then, there is no~question of him who wills nor of him
997 25 | question of him who wills nor of him who runs, but of God'
998 25 | nor of him who runs, but of God's showing mercy," next
999 25 | he~intends to speak also of his judgment - for where
1000 25 | hardeneth." He showeth mercy out of his great goodness; he hardeneth~