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1001 25 | goodness; he hardeneth~out of no unfairness at all. In
1002 25 | for glorying in~any merit of his own; nor does the man
1003 25 | a basis for complaining of anything~except what he
1004 25 | together in the one mass of perdition, arising from
1005 25 | is not the potter master of his clay, to make from~the
1006 25 | think that in this part of the argument the apostle
1007 25 | answer to give; and, for lack of a reasonable rejoinder,
1008 25 | simply rebuked the audacity of his ~gainsayer. But what
1009 25 | to consider the limits of his capacity and, at the ~
1010 25 | even if a single member of the race were ever saved
1011 25 | with the greater number of those not saved but simply
1012 25 | interposed. Thus every mouth of those~disposed to glory
1013 26 | CHAPTER XXVI - The Triumph of God's Sovereign Good Will~~
1014 26 | These are "the great works of the Lord, well-considered
1015 26 | well-considered in all his acts of will"~218 -~and so wisely
1016 26 | Supreme Good, he made good use of evil deeds, for the damnation
1017 26 | deeds, for the damnation of those whom~he had justly
1018 26 | punishment and for the salvation of those whom he had mercifully ~
1019 26 | purpose. In their very ~act of going against his will,
1020 26 | accomplished. This is the meaning of the~statement, "The works
1021 26 | the~statement, "The works of the Lord are great, well-considered
1022 26 | well-considered in all his acts of will" - that in a ~strange
1023 26 | could~bring good even out of evil.~
1024 26 | Sometimes, however, a man of good will wills something
1025 26 | it can happen that a man of evil will can will something~
1026 26 | this is also God's will. Of course, the former wills
1027 26 | God willeth. Yet the piety of the one, though he wills
1028 26 | will than is the impiety of the other, who wills the
1029 26 | determines whether an act of will is to be approved or
1030 26 | Actually, God achieveth~some of his purposes - which are,
1031 26 | his purposes - which are, of course, all good - through
1032 26 | through the evil wills of bad men. For~example, it
1033 26 | was through the ill will of the Jews that, by the good
1034 26 | Jews that, by the good will of the Father, Christ was~slain
1035 26 | good seemed the purposes of the~pious faithful who were
1036 26 | these things for the sake of the preaching of Christ,
1037 26 | the sake of the preaching of Christ, and for the training
1038 26 | Christ, and for the training of a~martyr for Christ. And
1039 26 | Christ. And this good purpose of his he achieved, not through
1040 26 | not through the good will of the~Christians, but through
1041 26 | but through the ill will of the Jews. Yet they were
1042 26 | were willing ~instruments of his purpose - for while
1043 26 | strong the wills either of angels or of men, whether
1044 26 | wills either of angels or of men, whether good or evil,
1045 26 | something else, the will of the Omnipotent is always ~
1046 27 | CHAPTER XXVII - Limits of God's Plan for Human Salvation~~
1047 27 | the fully omnipotent will of God. Rather, we must understand
1048 27 | be. And, indeed, it was of prayer to God that the apostle~
1049 27 | to understand the whole of mankind, in every single
1050 27 | middle-aged and very old; of~every tongue and fashion,
1051 27 | every tongue and fashion, of all the arts, of all professions,
1052 27 | fashion, of all the arts, of all professions, with the
1053 27 | with the countless variety of wills and~minds and all
1054 27 | differentiate people. For from which of these groups doth not~God
1055 27 | for kings and all those of exalted station,"~224 whose
1056 27 | to despise the humility of the Christian faith. Then,~
1057 27 | acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour"~225- ~that
1058 27 | and come to the knowledge of the truth."~226 Truly, ~
1059 27 | that through the prayers of the lowly he would deign
1060 27 | also useth the ~same manner of speech in the Gospel, where
1061 27 | others, nor all the~herbs of all the people of other
1062 27 | herbs of all the people of other lands. Therefore,
1063 27 | herb" to~mean "every kind of herb," so also we can interpret "
1064 27 | men" to mean "all kinds of men." We~could interpret
1065 27 | willed,"~228 as Truth sings of him, and surely he hath
1066 28 | CHAPTER XXVIII - The Destiny of Man~~
1067 28 | first man in that state of~salvation in which he was
1068 28 | season, after the begetting~of children, to a better state
1069 28 | without the intervention of death - where he not only
1070 28 | that man would make bad use of his free will - that is,
1071 28 | and so~that the good will of the Omnipotent should be
1072 28 | nullified by the bad will of men, but should~nonetheless
1073 28 | But the ordered course of God's plan was not to be ~
1074 28 | it was an inferior order of immortality - but~yet it
1075 28 | in which man was capable of not dying, even if the higher
1076 28 | which man will be incapable of dying.~230~
1077 28(229)| Another example of Augustine's wordplay. Man'
1078 28(229)| exercise. In the fulfillment of grace, man will have the
1079 28(229)| and receive the highest of all, the power not to be
1080 28 | nature lost the former kind of immortality through the
1081 28 | immortality through the misuse of free will. It is~to receive
1082 28 | afforded man, in the gift of participation in the~immutable
1083 28 | maintaining life, if the aids of food and other means of ~
1084 28 | of food and other means of ~preservation are lacking.~
1085 28 | in paradise was capable of self - destruction by abandoning
1086 28 | abandoning justice by an act of~will; yet if the life of
1087 28 | of~will; yet if the life of justice was to be maintained,
1088 28 | made effectual in the faith of Christ. Thus, as it is written,
1089 28 | receive the other gifts of God through which we~come
1090 28 | which is surely the wages of good works, is called a~_
1091 28 | works, is called a~_gift_ of God by the apostle. "For
1092 28 | apostle. "For the wages of sin," he says, "is death;
1093 28 | is death; but the gift of God is ~eternal life in
1094 28 | Hence, he said "the wages of sin is death," to show that
1095 28 | his own choice. ~Whichever of these two man had chosen,
1096 28 | do his own will instead of God's, God's will~_concerning_
1097 28 | for, from the same mass of perdition that flowed out
1098 28 | perdition that flowed out of that ~common source, God
1099 28 | be furnished an~example of obedience by the God - Man;
1100 28 | God - Man; that the fount of grace might be opened up;
1101 28 | that even the ~resurrection of the body - itself promised
1102 28 | previewed in the~resurrection of the Redeemer himself; that
1103 28 | from so great a~mystery of the Mediator, which those
1104 29 | soul, as each is worthy of rest or affliction according
1105 29 | no denying that the souls of the dead are benefited by
1106 29 | are benefited by the piety of their living~friends, when
1107 29 | friends, when the sacrifice of the Mediator is offered
1108 29 | that such~services could be of help to them. For there
1109 29 | them. For there is a mode of life that is neither so
1110 29 | is,~however, a good mode of life that does not need
1111 29 | opposed to that statement of the apostle when he said, "
1112 29 | apostle when he said, "For all of us shall stand before the ~
1113 29 | stand before the ~tribunal of Christ, so that each may
1114 29 | all, unless it be because of the different kinds of lives
1115 29 | because of the different kinds of lives men lead in the~body?
1116 29 | when sacrifices, whether of the altar or of alms, are
1117 29 | whether of the altar or of alms, are offered for the
1118 29 | very bad - even if they are of no help to the dead - they
1119 29 | they are at least a sort~of consolation to the living.
1120 29 | the living. Where they are of value, their benefit consists
1121 29 | the two cities: the one of Christ, the other of the
1122 29 | one of Christ, the other of the devil; one for~the good,
1123 29 | any further possibility of dying. The citizens of~the
1124 29 | possibility of dying. The citizens of~the first commonwealth will
1125 29 | die to it. The condition of both societies will then~
1126 29 | a more tolerable burden of misery than others.~
1127 29 | feelings~and deplore the notion of the eternal punishment of
1128 29 | of the eternal punishment of the damned and their interminable
1129 29 | This is, in fact, the text of a holy psalm.~237 But there
1130 29 | who are called "vessels of mercy,"~238 those who are
1131 29 | can be an end for ~those of whom it is said, "Thus these
1132 29 | an end to the happiness of those of whom the ~antithesis
1133 29 | to the happiness of those of whom the ~antithesis was
1134 29 | that, for certain intervals of time, the punishments of
1135 29 | of time, the punishments of the damned are somewhat
1136 29 | mitigated. ~Even so, the wrath of God must be understood as
1137 29 | still, to be lost out of the Kingdom of God, to~be
1138 29 | lost out of the Kingdom of God, to~be an exile from
1139 29 | be an exile from the City of God, to be estranged from
1140 29 | estranged from the life of God, to suffer loss of the
1141 29 | life of God, to suffer loss of the great~abundance of God'
1142 29 | loss of the great~abundance of God's blessings which he
1143 29 | 113. The eternal death of the damned - that is, their
1144 29 | estrangement from the life of God - will~therefore abide
1145 29 | to think about gradations of punishment, or the relief
1146 29 | the relief or~intermission of their misery. In the same
1147 29 | same way, the eternal life of the saints will abide forever,
1148 29 | and~also be common to all of them no matter how different
1149 29 | how different the grades of rank and honor in which~
1150 30 | CHAPTER XXX - The Principles of Christian Living: Faith
1151 30 | Thus, from our confession of _faith_, briefly ~summarized
1152 30 | is born the good _hope_ of the ~faithful, accompanied
1153 30 | by a holy _love_.~241 But of these affirmations, all
1154 30 | these affirmations, all of which ought~_faithfully_
1155 30(241)| return to the triadic scheme of the treatise: faith, hope,
1156 30 | himself is bound by the bond of this curse. ~Therefore,
1157 30 | contain seven~petitions: three of them ask for eternal goods,
1158 30 | They begin in this life, of course; they are~increased
1159 30 | hope to be - the hallowing of God's name, his Kingdom,
1160 30 | in that other world none of these~things will be found.~
1161 30 | Evangelist Luke, in his version of the Lord's Prayer, has brought
1162 30 | spirit, but the Kingdom of God is yet to come in the
1163 30 | come in the resurrection of the body. ~Therefore, Luke
1164 30 | be done"] is a repetition~of the first two, and makes
1165 30 | daily bread, forgiveness of sins, and avoidance of temptation.~245 ~
1166 30 | forgiveness of sins, and avoidance of temptation.~245 ~However,
1167 30 | But_ deliver us," instead of, "_And_ deliver~us," as
1168 31 | through prayer obtain the gift of love. For, although it is
1169 31 | cannot realize the object of his hopes. An example of
1170 31 | of his hopes. An example of this would be if a man hopes
1171 31 | Now this is the true faith of Christ which the apostle
1172 31 | And, without the gift of God - that is, without the
1173 31 | Moreover, it can make of man a transgressor, who
1174 31 | appetite reigns where the love of God does not.~247~
1175 31 | in the deepest shadows of ignorance, he lives according
1176 31 | flesh with no~restraint of reason - this is the primal
1177 31 | this is the primal state of man.~248 Afterward, when "
1178 31 | through the law the ~knowledge of sin"~249 has come to man,
1179 31(248)| here to Freud's description of the Id, the primal core
1180 31(248)| the Id, the primal core of our unconscious life.~
1181 31 | spell and made the slave of sin, "for by whatever a
1182 31 | whatever a man is vanquished, of this~master he is the ~slave"~250.
1183 31 | slave"~250. The effect of the knowledge of the law
1184 31 | effect of the knowledge of the law is that sin works
1185 31 | works in man the whole round of~concupiscence, which adds
1186 31 | which adds to the guilt of the first transgression.
1187 31 | This is the~_second_ state of man.~252~But if God regards
1188 31 | to be led by the Spirit of God, then the mightier power
1189 31 | then the mightier power of love~struggles against the
1190 31 | struggles against the power of the flesh.~253 And although
1191 31(252)| the psychological notion of the effect of external moral
1192 31(252)| psychological notion of the effect of external moral pressures
1193 31(252)| feelings, as in Freud's notion of "superego."~
1194 31 | conquering them~by his love of ~righteousness. This is
1195 31 | This is the _third_ stage of the man of good hope. A
1196 31 | third_ stage of the man of good hope. A final peace
1197 31 | this life in the repose of the spirit, and, at the
1198 31 | last, in the resurrection of~the body.~Of these four
1199 31 | resurrection of~the body.~Of these four different stages
1200 31 | these four different stages of man, the first is before
1201 31 | Thus, also, the history of~God's people has been ordered
1202 31 | through the first Advent of the Mediator."~255 This
1203 31 | veiled and hidden. For none of the righteous men of antiquity
1204 31 | none of the righteous men of antiquity could find salvation
1205 31 | salvation apart from the ~faith of Christ. And, unless Christ
1206 31 | 119. Now, in whichever of these four "ages" - if one
1207 31 | call them that - the grace of~regeneration finds a man,
1208 31 | never known the second "age" of slavery~under the law, but
1209 31 | the commandment, he must, of course, live according to~
1210 31 | imbued with the sacrament of rebirth, no harm will come
1211 31 | that he might be the Lord of both the living and the
1212 31 | Nor will the kingdom of~death have dominion over
1213 32 | CHAPTER XXXII The End of All the Law~~
1214 32 | referred back to _love_, of which the apostle says,~"
1215 32 | apostle says,~"Now the end of the commandment is love,
1216 32 | commandment is love, out of a pure heart, and a good
1217 32 | one does~either in fear of punishment or from some
1218 32 | measure up to the ~standard of love which the Holy Spirit
1219 32 | Love, in this context, of course includes both ~the
1220 32 | includes both ~the love of God and the love of our
1221 32 | love of God and the love of our neighbor and, indeed, "
1222 32 | comes the voice, "The end of the commandment is love,"~261
1223 32 | things God commands (and one of these is, "Thou shalt not
1224 32 | spiritual counsel (and one of these is, "It is a good
1225 32 | touch a~woman"~264) - all of these imperatives are rightly
1226 32 | measured by the~standard of our love of God and our
1227 32 | the~standard of our love of God and our love of our
1228 32 | love of God and our love of our neighbor in God [propter
1229 32 | we do not know the hearts of mortal men. But then "the
1230 32 | manifest the cogitations of the heart;~and then shall
1231 32 | explain how great the power of love will be, when there
1232 32 | then, the supreme state of true~health [summa sanitas]
1233 33 | for you through the help of~our Redeemer, and since
1234 33 | love you greatly as one of the members of his body,
1235 33 | greatly as one of the members of his body, I have written