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1 1 | CHAPTER I - The Occasion and Purpose of this "Manual"~~
2 1 | your learning pleases me, and how~much I desire that you
3 1 | health of the world"~2; and also you should be the kind
4 1 | you be wise in goodness~and simple in evil."~4~
5 1 | shorter than you wished, and might then beg for a brief
6 1 | what should be hoped for, and what should~be loved? If
7 1 | alone; what is the beginning and end of our endeavor? What
8 1 | explanations? What is the certain and distinctive foundation of
9 1 | what he should hope for, and what he ought to love. For
10 1 | by our own~understanding, and cannot - here we must believe,
11 1 | divinely aided in~their senses and their minds to see and even
12 1 | senses and their minds to see and even to foresee the things
13 1 | sight, so that the holy and perfect in heart catch ~
14 1 | question about the beginning and the end of our endeavor.
15 1 | explanations. As for~the certain and distinctive foundation of
16 1 | that it is common to us and to certain heretics as well.
17 1 | the ones that now exist, and those which could exist
18 1 | under the label "Christian,"~and we would have to show that
19 1(10) | in which he had reviewed and refuted a full score of
20 1 | believe, what to hope~for, and what to love. But to defend
21 1 | differently is a more difficult and detailed task. If one is
22 2 | CHAPTER II - The Creed and the Lord's Prayer as Guides
23 2 | Virtues of Faith, Hope, and Love~~
24 2 | example, with the Symbol~11 and the Lord's Prayer. What
25 2 | burdened by great misery and in deep need of mercy, a
26 2 | time~of God's grace, said, "And it shall be that all who
27 2(11) | Augustine's early essay On Faith and the Creed.~
28 2 | this prophetic testimony and promptly added, "But how
29 2 | together: faith believes; hope and love pray. Yet without faith~
30 2 | he does not hope for it, and whoever believes that such
31 2 | punishment is~threatening him and draws back in horror from
32 2 | but another poet, and a better one, did not put
33 2 | example of inaccurate language and comment, "He said~'to hope'
34 2 | believe in both the good~and evil. Yet faith is good,
35 2 | faith refers to things past and present and ~future. For
36 2 | things past and present and ~future. For we believe
37 2 | do with our own affairs and with those of others. For
38 2 | believes, both~about himself and other persons - and about
39 2 | himself and other persons - and about things as well - that
40 2 | some time he began to exist~and that he has not existed
41 2 | deals only with good things, and only with those which lie
42 2 | which lie in the future, and which~pertain to the man
43 2 | they are different terms and likewise different concepts.
44 2 | different concepts. Yet faith and hope have this in~common:
45 2 | refer to things not seen. And as for hope, the~apostle
46 2 | Even the demons believe and~tremble."~19 Yet they neither
47 2 | do that what we hope~for and love is coming to pass,
48 2 | the apostle Paul approves and~commends the faith that
49 2 | faith that works by love and that cannot exist without
50 2 | hope is not without love, and neither hope nor love are
51 3 | God the Creator of All; and the Goodness of All Creation~~
52 3 | ignorant about the properties and the number of the basic
53 3 | about the~motion, order, and deviations of the stars,
54 3 | of the heavens, the kinds and nature of~animals, plants,
55 3 | stones, springs, rivers, and mountains; about the divisions
56 3 | about the divisions of space and time,~about the signs of
57 3 | signs of impending storms, and the myriad other things
58 3 | with their ardor in study and their abundant leisure,
59 3 | matters by human~conjecture and others through historical
60 3 | Creator, ~who is the one and the true God.~21 Further,
61 3 | exists save God~himself and what comes from him; and
62 3 | and what comes from him; and he believes that God is
63 3 | triune, i.e., the Father, and the ~Son begotten of the
64 3 | begotten of the Father, and the Holy Spirit proceeding
65 3 | the same Father, but one and the~same Spirit of the Father
66 3 | same Spirit of the Father and the Son.~
67 3 | this Trinity, supremely and equally and immutably good,
68 3 | Trinity, supremely and equally and immutably good, were all
69 3 | single created thing is~good, and taken as a whole they are
70 3 | when it is rightly ordered and~kept in its place, commends
71 3 | things yield greater pleasure~and praise when compared to
72 3 | unless in his~omnipotence and goodness, as the Supreme
73 3 | for~instance, sickness and wounds are nothing but the
74 3 | present (i.e., the sickness and the wounds) do not retreat
75 3 | the wounds) do not retreat and go elsewhere. ~Rather, they
76 3(22) | This section (Chs. III and IV) is the most explicit
77 3(22) | writings, Soliloquies, 1, 2, and De ordine, II, 7. It is
78 4 | nature is not supremely and immutably good as is the
79 4 | things can be diminished and augmented. For good to be
80 4 | praise~an uncorrupted thing, and if it were indeed an incorruptible
81 4 | which it is being~deprived; and in this process, if something
82 4 | natura ~incorruptibilis], and to this great good it will
83 4 | corruption comes to be total and entire, there is no~good
84 4 | be. Yet only the foolish and ~unknowing can deny that
85 4 | what is good is ever evil and that there is no evil apart
86 4 | those who call evil good and good evil: who call~darkness
87 4 | who call~darkness light and light darkness; who call
88 4 | who call the bitter sweet and the sweet bitter."~23 Moreover~
89 4 | him who calls evil good and good evil." For this amounts
90 4 | contraries we call evil and good, the rule of the logicians
91 4 | No~weather is both dark and bright at the same time;
92 4 | food or drink is both sweet and sour at the~same time; no
93 4 | body is, at the same time and place, both white and black,
94 4 | time and place, both white and black, nor deformed and~
95 4 | and black, nor deformed and~well-formed at the same
96 4 | one maintains that good and~evil are not contraries,
97 4 | or an angel could exist and yet not be wicked, whereas
98 4 | their source in the good, and unless they are parasitic
99 4 | soil we can see both vines and thorns spring up. Likewise,
100 4 | passage ~about the trees and the fruits, for he said: "
101 4 | said: "Make the tree good and the fruits will be good,
102 4 | good, or~make the tree bad and its fruits will be bad."~27
103 5 | CHAPTER V - The Kinds and Degrees of Error~~
104 5 | they burst their bounds~and then subside again,"~29 ~
105 5 | then subside again,"~29 ~and other such things as this.~
106 5 | know the causes of good and evil in things, at least
107 5 | filled as it is with errors and distress, in order to avoid
108 5 | order to avoid these errors and distresses. ~We must always
109 5 | how the secrets of heaven and~earth still remain hidden
110 5 | still remain hidden from us, and what patience there must
111 5 | in the error, for in one and the same question~one naturally
112 5 | expert to the blunderer, and this with~good reason. In
113 5 | one man knows one thing and another man~knows something
114 5 | knowledge is more useful and the latter is less useful
115 5 | the way at ~a crossroads and did not go by the place
116 5 | only by a roundabout way, and~upon learning of the ambush,
117 5 | were glad to have erred and gave thanks to God for our
118 5 | I saw her I was undone, ~and fatal error swept me away,"~31~~
119 5 | true what is in fact false, and as false what is true. It
120 5 | in the mind is deforming and improper, since the fitting
121 5 | improper, since the fitting and proper thing would~be to
122 5 | souls, where~none deceives and none is deceived. In this
123 5 | In this life men deceive and are deceived, and are actually~
124 5 | deceive and are deceived, and are actually~worse off when
125 5 | shrinks from falsehood, and naturally avoids error as
126 5 | does not~deceive himself and that he deceives only those
127 6 | 18. Here a most difficult and complex issue arises which
128 6 | it~is sometimes a good and pious deed to speak falsely.
129 6 | depending on the intention and the topic of the lie. He
130 6 | one intention in his heart and another in his word, whereas
131 6 | deceived in matters where~faith and knowledge are prerequisite
132 6 | that a dead man is alive, and another man, being deceived,~
133 6 | deceived in the second? And would it not be~a lesser
134 6 | good who is actually bad, and~consequently has to suffer
135 6 | things in which men are evil and not to the men themselves.
136 6 | supposing him to be chaste and not knowing that he is an
137 6 | in his doctrine of good and evil, but only as to the
138 6 | what he supposed him to be, and this is undoubtedly a good
139 6 | Moreover, he calls adultery bad and chastity good. But he calls
140 6 | that he is an adulterer and not chaste. In similar fashion,
141 6 | of it. Error, in itself and by itself, whether a ~great
142 7 | the Limits of Knowledge and Certainty in Various Matters~~
143 7 | being liberated from~fetters and chains by the angel~36)
144 7 | do not know whether these and other such errors should~
145 7 | every error is deemed a sin, and this can be~warded off only
146 7 | dispute it with the most acute and~even shameless arguments.~
147 7 | affirmation nothing is ~believed. And there are truths about things
148 7 | truths about things unseen, and unless they are believed,
149 7 | altogether certain as well. And there are many things that
150 7 | things that are thus true and certain~concerning which,
151 7(40) | watchword of the Academics - and assensio, the badge of Christian
152 7 | or, if~it is, as a small and light one. In sum, whatever
153 7 | thought he saw a vision and~so mistook one thing for
154 7 | the true for the false, and hold as uncertain what is
155 7 | forward to affirm~truth and eternal beatitude, yet they
156 7 | already enjoying that true and perfected happiness.~
157 7 | truth, but even when he errs and is deceived, as a man may
158 7 | language in order to deceive, and not as it was designed to
159 7 | not consent to her desire and who, if she lived, might
160 7 | in such a forward step, and perhaps even rewarded, is
161 7 | rewarded, is their good will~and not their deceit. The deceit
162 8 | about the causes of good and evil - enough to lead us
163 8 | the case ~of the angels and, afterward, that of man.~
164 8 | the right things to ~do and also an appetite for noxious
165 8 | appetite for noxious things. And these brought along with
166 8 | their~companions, error and misery. When these two evils
167 8 | harmful or~at least inane - and as it fails to recognize
168 8 | the evils that both men and angels have in common, for
169 8 | him by rational command and~deter him by the threat
170 8 | sinned, man was banished, and through his sin he subjected~
171 8 | to the punishment of sin and damnation, for he had radically
172 8 | those descended from him and his wife (who~had prompted
173 8 | had prompted him to sin and who was condemned along
174 8 | through ~divers errors and sufferings (along with the
175 8 | angels, their corruptors and possessors and~companions),
176 8 | corruptors and possessors and~companions), to that final
177 8 | sin entered into~the world and death through sin; and thus
178 8 | world and death through sin; and thus death came upon all
179 8 | condemned, lying ruined and wallowing in evil, being
180 8 | plunged from evil into evil and, having~joined causes with
181 8 | wicked~do freely in blind and unbridled lust; and it is
182 8 | blind and unbridled lust; and it is manifest in whatever
183 8 | on to~suffer, both openly and secretly. Yet the Creator'
184 8 | not cease to sustain life and~vitality even in the evil
185 8 | although born of a corrupted and condemned stock, he still
186 8 | retains the~power to form and animate his seed, to direct
187 8 | their spatial relations, and to provide bodily nourishment.
188 8 | permit any evil to exist. And if he had willed that there
189 8 | nature that deserted God and, through the evil use of
190 8 | of his powers, trampled and~transgressed the precepts
191 8 | turned away from His Light and violated the image of the
192 8 | abandoned by God wholly and forever~and laid under the
193 8 | by God wholly and forever~and laid under the everlasting
194 8 | this~if he were only just and not also merciful and if
195 8 | just and not also merciful and if he had not willed to
196 9 | deserted God in impious pride and were cast into the lowest~
197 9 | persevered in eternal bliss and holiness with God. For these
198 9 | from a single angel, lapsed and damned. Hence, the original
199 9 | with his impious~company and was then with them prostrated,
200 9 | pious obedience~to the Lord and so received what the others
201 9 | it pleased God, Creator and Governor of the universe,
202 9 | as a whole through sins and punishments,~both original
203 9 | punishments,~both original and personal, God had determined
204 9 | of it would be restored and would~fill up the loss which
205 9 | heavenly Jerusalem, our mother and the commonwealth of God,
206 9 | as though they were,"~46 and "ordereth all things in
207 9 | ordereth all things in measure and ~number and weight."~47~
208 9 | things in measure and ~number and weight."~47~
209 9 | hath promised deliverance and a~place in the eternal Kingdom
210 9 | that man destroyed himself and his will at the same time.
211 9 | is then no longer alive and ~cannot resuscitate himself
212 9 | be victor over the will and the free will is destroyed. "
213 9 | judgment~of the apostle Peter. And since it is true, I ask
214 9 | from the bondage of sin and begins to be the servant
215 9 | But how would a man, bound and sold, get back his liberty
216 9 | 31. And lest men should arrogate
217 9 | faith as their own work and not~understand it as a divine
218 9 | an additional comment: "And this is not of~yourselves,
219 9 | lives, that is, formeth and createth us not as~men -
220 9 | had originated from him and as if the freedom to do
221 9 | work in you both to will and to do according to his good
222 9 | according to his good will."~56 And,~in another place: "It is
223 9 | say, from the will of man~and from the mercy of God. Thus
224 9 | will to receive divine aid and aideth the will which~has
225 9(59) | the primacy of God's grace and the reality of human freedom.
226 9(59) | involved him in a paradox and the appearance of confusion.
227 9(59) | sufficient as the ground and source of human willing.
228 9(59) | source of human willing. And against the Pelagians and
229 9(59) | And against the Pelagians and other detractors from grace,
230 9(59) | that grace is irresistible and inviolable. Cf. On Grace
231 9(59) | inviolable. Cf. On Grace and Free Will, 99, 41-43; On
232 9(59) | Perseverance, 41; On the Soul and Its Origin, 16; and even
233 9(59) | Soul and Its Origin, 16; and even the Enchiridion, XXIV,
234 9(59) | conclusion that man is unfree and everywhere roundly rejects
235 9(59) | John, Tractate, 53:6-8; and even his severest anti-Pelagian
236 9(59) | anti-Pelagian tracts: On Grace and Free Will, 6- 8, 10, 31
237 9(59) | Free Will, 6- 8, 10, 31 and On Admonition and Grace,
238 9(59) | 10, 31 and On Admonition and Grace, 2-8.~
239 9 | mercy goes before me,"~60 and also, "His mercy shall follow
240 9 | even now at work in them and in their wills?~63 Or~again,
241 10 | was bound in a just doom and all men were children of~
242 10 | of woman is~of few days and full of trouble."~65 And
243 10 | and full of trouble."~65 And even the Lord Jesus said
244 10 | condition~made still graver and more pernicious as they
245 10 | as they compounded more and worse sins with it - a~Mediator
246 10 | the sacrifices of the Law and the Prophets were shadows,
247 10 | God through the Mediator and receive the ~Holy Spirit
248 10 | that "the Word became flesh and dwelt among us,"~70 so that
249 10 | born of the Holy Spirit and Mary the Virgin." Yet it~
250 10 | conceived~by His mother's faith and not her fleshly desires.
251 10 | whom~I name with honor and affection.~72~
252 10 | of God, is thus both God and man. He was God before all
253 10 | his Person a rational soul and body is joined to the~Word.~
254 10 | so far as he is God, he and the Father are one. Yet
255 10 | was also made Son of Man - and yet he~was in the one nature
256 10 | Thus he was made less and~remained equal, and both
257 10 | less and~remained equal, and both these in a unity as
258 10 | He is the one Son of God, and at the same time Son of
259 10 | Man; the one Son of Man, and ~at the same time God's
260 10 | two sons of God, one God and the other man, but~_one_
261 11 | manifest, commended in grand and visible fashion;~for what
262 11 | Christ merited, that it, and no other, should be ~assumed
263 11 | a man before the union, and was this singular grace~
264 11 | God's Son, the only Son, and this~because the Word of
265 11 | a unity of rational soul and flesh - so also is Christ
266 11 | Christ a~personal unity: Word and man.~Why should there be
267 11 | glory to a human nature - and this undoubtedly an act
268 11 | such a question faithfully and~soberly might have here
269 11 | manifestation of God's great and sole grace, and this in
270 11 | s great and sole grace, and this in order that~they
271 11 | he said, "full of grace." And shortly ~thereafter, "You
272 11 | found favor with God."~76 And this was said of her, that
273 11 | the Evangelist John said, "And the Word became flesh and
274 11 | And the Word became flesh and dwelt among us," he~added, "
275 11 | dwelt among us," he~added, "and we beheld his glory, a glory
276 11 | the Father, full of grace and ~truth."~77 When he said, "
277 11 | God's only begotten Son - and, again, this not by grace
278 11 | Jesus Christ, God's one and only Son our Lord, was born
279 11 | born of the Holy Spirit~and the Virgin Mary. Now obviously
280 11 | not inferior to the Father and the Son. Now what~does this
281 11 | Spirit shall come upon you~and the power of the Most High
282 11 | called the Son of God."~78 And when Joseph wished to put
283 12 | generated the human nature, and that~from both natures Christ
284 12 | as man of the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary, there is
285 12 | nature (in both the divine~and the human) the only Son
286 12 | which the Virgin conceived and bore, though it was related
287 12 | that action? This is true and can be shown by examples,
288 12 | Born of the Holy Spirit and the Virgin Mary," the sense
289 12 | the Son of the Holy Spirit and yet is the son of the Virgin
290 12 | he was born both of~him and of her, is difficult to
291 12 | those who~are born of water and of the Holy Spirit would
292 12 | them sons of God the Father and of Mother Church. ~Thus,
293 12 | What we said about the hair and the other things has this
294 12 | the fashion of a~"son," and conversely, since not everyone
295 12 | Spirit (yet not as a son), and of~the Virgin Mary as a
296 12 | Man should be Son of God,~and the one who is Son of God
297 13 | CHAPTER XIII - Baptism and Original Sin~~
298 13 | 41. Since he was begotten and conceived in no pleasure
299 13 | pleasure of carnal appetite - and therefore~bore no trace
300 13 | operating in a marvelous and an ~ineffable manner), joined
301 13 | ineffable manner), joined and united in a personal unity
302 13 | by grace but by nature. And although he himself committed
303 13 | he was himself called sin and was made a~sacrifice for
304 13 | was "the likeness~of sin." And since he had never lived
305 13 | in the likeness of sin" - and they are thereby alive by
306 13 | to one~but to many sins, and to all the sins which they
307 13 | committed by thought, ~word, and deed. Actually, by the use
308 13 | signified,~as the poet said, ~~"And they fill the belly with
309 13 | this with many warriors. And in our own Scriptures we
310 13 | does not say, "He is dead." And in Exodus: "They made," [
311 13 | they had made one calf. And of this calf, they said: "
312 13 | into the world by one man and so spread to all~men,"~88
313 13 | so spread to all~men,"~88 and on account of which infants
314 13 | rather than the rule of God; and sacrilege too, for man did
315 13 | did not~acknowledge God; and murder, since he cast himself
316 13 | cast himself down to death; and spiritual fornication, for~
317 13 | seduction of the serpent; and theft, since~the forbidden
318 13 | forbidden fruit was snatched; and avarice, since he hungered
319 13 | have~sufficed for him - and whatever other sins that
320 13 | 46. It is also said - and not without support - that
321 13 | fathers have eaten sour grapes and the children's teeth are
322 13 | generatio] ~was tainted - and to such a degree that one
323 13 | conceived in iniquities; and in sins did my mother nourish
324 13 | preferred to say "iniquities"~and "sins," because, as I explained
325 13 | has~passed into all men, and which was so great that
326 13 | human nature was changed and by it brought~under the
327 13 | the necessity of death - and also because there are other
328 13 | unless the gracious grace and mercy of God interpose.~
329 13 | deeds of all his forebears, and their multiplied original
330 13 | farther than - the third and fourth generations,~because
331 13 | beginning of the human race, and to pay the due penalty for
332 13 | a more diligent ~search and interpretation of Holy Scripture,
333 14 | Mediatorial Work (48-49) and Justification (50-55)~~
334 14 | human race was originally and, so to say, radically condemned. ~
335 14 | It cannot be pardoned and washed away except through "
336 14 | one mediator between God and~men, the man Christ Jesus,"~92
337 14 | was in authentic justice, and not by violent power, that
338 14 | that the~devil was overcome and conquered: for, as he had
339 14 | upon himself both baptism and death, not out of ~a piteous
340 14 | Hence, ~the apostle says, "And the gift [of grace] is not
341 14 | grace is for many offenses, and ~brings justification."~96
342 14 | common with all the others and also the~multitude of sins
343 14 | is subject to damnation,~and no one, unless reborn of
344 14 | 52. And after this discussion of
345 14 | punishment through one man and grace through the Other,
346 14 | in the cross of Christ, and to do this so that we may
347 14 | forgiveness of our sins real, and in the same sense ~in which
348 14 | did much more abound."~99 And ~therefore he himself raised
349 14 | he answers, "God forbid!" and adds, "How shall we,~who
350 14 | baptized into his death." And the effect of this is to
351 14 | thereby grace might abound, and had said, "If we have died
352 14 | we~go on living in it?" And then to show that we were
353 14 | in "the likeness of sin" and which was, therefore, called
354 14 | crucifixion it was said,~"And they that are Jesus Christ'
355 14 | flesh, with the passions and lusts ~thereof"~103; and
356 14 | and lusts ~thereof"~103; and of his burial, "For we are
357 14 | life"; of his ascension and session at the Father's
358 14 | earth. For you~are dead, and your life is hid with Christ
359 14 | heaven to judge the living and the dead, does not pertain
360 14 | this the apostle refers and goes on to add, "When Christ,
361 14 | shall judge the living and the dead." On the one hand,
362 14 | the flesh~when he comes; and we may understand by "the
363 14 | signify "the righteous,"~and "the dead" may signify "
364 14 | resurrection of judgment."~106 And sometimes it is passed upon
365 14 | me, O God, by thy name, and judge me in thy strength."~107
366 14 | distinction between good and evil is made, to the end
367 14 | that,~being freed from evil and not destroyed with the evildoers,
368 14 | cried, "Judge me, O God," and, as if to explain what he
369 14 | explain what he had~said, "and defend my cause against
370 15 | XV - The Holy Spirit (56) and the Church (57-60)~~
371 15 | the Trinity which is God; and after that we call to mind
372 15 | in it, the temple to God, and the city to its founder.
373 15(110)| form poscebat (as in Scheel and PL) for the late form poxebat (
374 15(110)| form poxebat (as in Riviere and many old MSS.). ~
375 15 | the name of the Lord~111 and singing a new song~of deliverance
376 15 | creation, held fast to God, and which never experienced
377 15 | remains in blessedness, and it gives help, even as it
378 15(112)| unum deum (with Riviere and PL) against deum (in Scheel).~
379 15 | Holy Spirit were creature and not~Creator, he would obviously
380 15(113)| unusual phrase is Ps. 82:6 and John 10:34f. But note the
381 15(113)| between ex diis quos facit and non factus Deus.~
382 15 | not that he has one temple and God~another temple, since
383 15 | are the temple of God," and~then, as if to prove his
384 15 | prove his point, added, "and that the Spirit of God dwelleth
385 15 | Spirit only, but also Father and Son, who saith of~his body -
386 15 | Destroy this temple and in three days I will raise
387 15 | Universal Church in heaven and on the earth.~
388 15 | ordered in that most blessed and supernal society? What differences
389 15 | question: whether the sun and moon and all the stars belong
390 15 | whether the sun and moon and all the stars belong to
391 15 | visible, but tangible as well? And, again, how do they, not
392 15 | the book~of the Prophets: "And the angel that spoke in
393 15 | appear to men in sleep, and communicate through~dreams,
394 15 | such questions as these, and to guess at the answers
395 15 | the discussion is moderate and one avoids the mistake of
396 16 | Problems About Heavenly and Earthly Divisions of the
397 16 | important to be able to discern and tell when Satan transforms
398 16 | deceives the corporeal senses, and does not thereby turn the
399 16 | the mind from that true and right~judgment by which
400 16 | required to recognize him and not follow after. But how
401 16 | stratagems, unless God guides and preserves them! Yet the
402 16 | cast their hopes on him. And that this latter is~obviously
403 16 | composed of the holy angels and powers of~God will become
404 16 | us because we are in it, and because it ~is composed
405 16 | of the sinless Mediator, and its cry is: "If God be for
406 16 | death for man's redemption and his deliverance~from evil
407 16 | caused by sin between men and~the angels is removed and
408 16 | and~the angels is removed and friendship restored. Moreover,
409 16 | Christ,~both those in heaven and those on the earth in him."~127
410 16 | peace with the earthly part and the earthly reconciled to
411 16 | being should dwell~in him and by him to reconcile all
412 16 | company of rational creatures and between them and their~Creator.
413 16 | creatures and between them and their~Creator. This is the
414 16 | may be, "we know in part, and we see in a glass darkly."~129
415 16 | shall see~face to face."~131 And we shall then have as great
416 16 | will be like theirs in kind and~measure - nor will it then
417 16 | surpass our understanding and theirs as well. For, of
418 17 | this that~"what was lost and is found again"~132 is not
419 17 | which all guilt, inherited and acquired, is washed away -
420 17 | the age of~accountability (and no matter how vigorously
421 17 | in a conflict with death. And although it is truly said
422 17 | led by~the Spirit of God and, as sons of God, advance
423 17 | by the corruptible body and influenced by certain human
424 17 | fall away from themselves and commit sin. But it matters _
425 17 | deceive even ourselves, and the truth is not in us."~134~
426 17 | the measure of his sin. ~And, in the act of repentance,~135
427 17 | sorrow. For, "a contrite and humbled heart God will not
428 17(135)| poenitentiam agite in the 95 Theses and in De poenitentia. ~
429 17 | mostly hid from another, and does not come to notice~
430 17 | to notice~through words and other such signs - even
431 17 | sins seem to be ignored and go unpunished; but ~their
432 17 | the Judge of the~living and the dead shall come is rightly
433 17 | sins are punished here, and, if they are forgiven, will
434 17 | whose sins are blotted out and not reserved to the end,~
435 18 | CHAPTER XVIII~141 - Faith and Works~~
436 18(141)| date of the Enchiridion and an interesting side light
437 18(141)| Migne, PL, 40, c. 147-170, and the best English translation
438 18 | abandon the name of Christ,~and who are baptized in his
439 18 | redeeming~them by alms - and who obstinately persevere
440 18 | those who believe thus, and still are Catholics, are
441 18 | question, entitled Faith and Works,~142 in which, with
442 18(142)| seeks to combine the Pauline and Jacobite emphases by analyzing
443 18(142)| analyzing what kind of faith and what kind of works are _
444 18 | But if faith~works evil and not good, then without doubt,
445 18 | account of his faith only, and if this is the~way the statement
446 18 | James said would be false. And also false would be another
447 18 | since these fully plain and most pertinent apostolic
448 18 | Christ, not gold, silver,~and precious stones, but wood,
449 18 | precious stones, but wood, hay, and ~stubble"~148 - for it is
450 18 | testimonies. In fact, wood and hay and stubble may~be understood,
451 18 | testimonies. In fact, wood and hay and stubble may~be understood,
452 18 | when such anguish "burns," and Christ still holds his place
453 18 | nothing is preferred to him and if the man whose anguish "
454 18 | hold onto these temporal and worldly goods rather than
455 18 | builds with gold, silver, and precious stones on this~
456 18 | stones on this~foundation and also the man who builds
457 18 | who builds with wood, hay, and stubble. For, when he had
458 18 | tries the potter's vessels and the trial of affliction
459 18 | foundation, with gold, silver, and precious stones. ~The other
460 18 | foundation with wood, hay, and stubble. The work of the
461 18 | rather than losing Christ, and does not desert Christ from
462 18 | the things he has loved and lost, but this does not
463 18 | as~he is by the stability and the indestructibility of
464 18 | loved the goods that perish, and in~proportion to their attachment
465 18 | those on his right hand; and, on~the same basis of unfruitfulness,
466 19 | CHAPTER XIX - Almsgiving and Forgiveness~~
467 19 | can be perpetrated daily and then daily~redeemed by almsgiving.
468 19 | changed for the better, and alms should be~offered as
469 19 | 71. For the passing and trivial sins of every day,
470 19 | such a Father "by water and the Spirit."~155 This prayer
471 19 | completely~blots out our minor and everyday sins. It also blots
472 19 | our Lord says - "Give alms and, behold, all things are
473 19 | fugitive; who visits the sick and the prisoner, redeems the
474 19 | advice to the perplexed, and does whatever is needful
475 19 | other discipline, corrects and restrains those under his
476 19 | only in that he forgives and ~prays, but also in that
477 19 | also in that he rebukes and administers corrective punishment,
478 19 | unwilling, when their interests and not their~preferences are
479 19 | preferences are consulted. And men frequently are found
480 19 | are their true friends. And then, by mistake, they return
481 19 | goodness - to love your enemy, and~always to wish him well
482 19 | always to wish him well and, as you can, _do_ well to
483 19 | to him who wishes you ill and who does you ~harm when
484 19 | good to them that~hate you, and pray for them that persecute
485 19 | the perfect sons of God. And although all the faithful
486 19 | should strive~toward them and through prayer to God and
487 19 | and through prayer to God and earnest endeavor bring their
488 19 | who has sinned against him and who~now asks his forgiveness.
489 19 | be regarded as an enemy, and it should not now be as
490 19 | one who asks forgiveness and is repentant~of his sins
491 19 | since the Truth~cannot lie, and what hearer and reader of
492 19 | cannot lie, and what hearer and reader of the gospel has
493 19 | is not asleep, but dead. And yet such a word has power
494 20 | live in gross wickedness and take no care to correct
495 20 | care to correct their lives~and habits, who yet, amid their
496 20 | who yet, amid their crimes and misdeeds, continue to multiply
497 20 | Lord's words, "Give alms; and, behold, all things are
498 20 | asked him to dine with him. And he went in and reclined
499 20 | with him. And he went in and reclined at the table. ~
500 20 | reclined at the table. ~And the Pharisee began to wonder