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501 20 | Pharisee began to wonder and ask himself why He had not
502 20 | clean the outside of the cup and the dish,~but within you
503 20 | still full of extortion and wickedness. Foolish ones!
504 20 | alms what remains within; and, behold, all things are
505 20 | nor been reborn of water and the Spirit? But all are
506 20 | their hearts by faith."~163 And as the~apostle said, "But
507 20 | to them that are unclean and unbelieving nothing is clean;
508 20 | clean; both their minds and ~consciences are unclean."~164
509 20 | unwilling~to believe in Christ and to be born again in his
510 20 | born again in his grace? And yet, what they heard is
511 20 | heard is true: "Give~alms; and behold, all things are clean
512 20 | should begin with himself and give them~to himself. For
513 20 | almsgiving is a work of mercy, and the saying is most true: "
514 20 | inquire about our wretchedness and come to acknowledge the
515 20 | trespass to~condemnation."~166 And the same herald of grace
516 20 | estimate of our wretchedness and begin~to love God with the
517 20 | then begin to live piously and ~righteously.~But the Pharisees,
518 20 | disregarded this "judgment and love of God." Therefore,
519 20 | still full of extortion and wickedness, he then admonished
520 20 | give what remains as alms, and, behold, all things are
521 20 | which they had ignored, and to show them that he was
522 20 | you, for you tithe mint and rue and every herb" - "I
523 20 | for you tithe mint and rue and every herb" - "I know these
524 20 | know these alms of yours and you need not~think I am
525 20 | you to give them up" - "and then neglect justice and
526 20 | and then neglect justice and the love of God."~"_This_
527 20 | here means both "inward" and~"outward" - as elsewhere
528 20 | Make clean the inside, and the outside will become~
529 20 | pay heed to the judgment and love of God - and~"not omit
530 20 | judgment and love of God - and~"not omit the others" -
531 20 | alms - however profusely, and whether of their ~fruits
532 20 | enormity of their~crimes and the grossness of their wickedness.
533 20 | hates his own soul."~171 And he who hates his own~soul
534 20 | soul after the world's way and love it according to~God'
535 21 | 78. What sins are trivial and what are grave, however,
536 21 | give yourselves to prayer,~and then return together lest
537 21 | fornication, or adultery,~and other kinds of impurity
538 21 | judged before the unrighteous and not the saints?"~174 And
539 21 | and not the saints?"~174 And a bit later: "If, ~therefore,
540 21 | goes to law with brother, and~that in the presence of ~
541 21 | presence of ~unbelievers."~175 And here it might be thought
542 21 | suit against a~brother, and that the only sin consisted
543 21 | that he had a just ~cause and was suffering injustice
544 21 | directly resists such thoughts and excuses by saying: "Why
545 21 | anyone~would take your tunic and contend in court with you,
546 21 | go your cloak also."~178 And in~another place: "If a
547 21 | other men in secular suits. And it is because of this teaching
548 21 | the weak.~Because of these and similar sins - and of others
549 21 | these and similar sins - and of others even less than
550 21 | such as offenses in~words and thoughts - and because,
551 21 | in~words and thoughts - and because, as the apostle
552 21 | to pray to the Lord daily and often, and say, "Forgive
553 21 | the Lord daily and often, and say, "Forgive us our debts,"~
554 21 | Forgive us our debts,"~and not lie about what follows
555 21 | offering a gift at the altar, and remember there that your
556 21 | sin it is to observe days and months and~years and seasons -
557 21 | observe days and months and~years and seasons - as those
558 21 | days and months and~years and seasons - as those people
559 21 | follow vain human doctrines and suppose that various~seasons
560 21 | those sins, however grave and terrible, which, when they
561 21 | trivial or no sins at all. And so far does this go that
562 21 | but are even proclaimed and published abroad - cases
563 21 | the desires of his soul; and he that works iniquity is~
564 21 | Genesis: "The cry of Sodom~and Gomorrah is ~multiplied,"~185
565 21 | we come to~tolerate them, and, tolerating them, we even
566 22 | do not do what we should, and we do what we know already
567 22 | guide us~away from sin, and this we do when we say, "
568 22 | not into ~temptation" - and we should make our petitions
569 22 | psalm, "The~Lord is my light and my ~salvation"~187; that,
570 22 | giveth them repentance."~188 And, similarly, that Peter might
571 22 | bounty of the divine gifts and ends, and persists to his
572 22 | the divine gifts and ends, and persists to his last day
573 23 | resurrection of the body - and by this I do not mean the
574 23 | way to discuss it briefly and still give satisfactory~
575 23 | be cheated of nothing apt and fitting which time's~passage
576 23 | disfigured by anything adverse and~contrary which time has
577 23 | by the most learned men, and still I do not know that~
578 23 | are cut away limb by limb and cast out of the~wombs of
579 23 | possible for him~to die. And, once dead, wheresoever
580 23 | monsters which are~born and live, even if they quickly
581 23 | rather in an amended nature and free from faults. Far be
582 23 | given ~eyewitness reports and the presbyter Jerome, of
583 23 | will be one double man, and not~rather two men, as there
584 23 | soul will have its own body and not two bodies joined together,
585 23 | or dispersed into~vapors and the winds, or converted
586 23 | food for beasts or even men and been turned into~their flesh -
587 23 | that first animated it, and that~caused it to become
588 23 | to become a man, to live and to grow.~
589 23 | into which it was separated and which have become ~parts
590 23 | pared off, makes for a wild and wholly unbecoming image
591 23 | those~who speculate this way and leads them thus to disbelieve
592 23 | reduced to a shapeless mass, and an artist wished to restore
593 23 | artist who works in marvelous~and mysterious ways - will restore
594 23 | our bodies, with marvelous and mysterious celerity, out
595 23 | was originally composed. And it will make no difference,
596 23 | whether hair returns to hair and nails to nails, or whether
597 23 | is turned back into flesh and restored to other parts
598 23 | retain his special features and the proper and recognizable
599 23 | features and the proper and recognizable likeness of
600 23 | that none shall be lost, and any defect will be~supplied
601 23 | place in the angelic band and impose nothing on their
602 23 | unseemly will be there, and whatever is there will be
603 23 | is there will be fitting,~and this because the unfitting
604 23 | again free from blemish and deformity, just as~they
605 23 | undoubtedly they will be bodies and not spirits. For just as
606 23 | animale], though it is a body and not a "spirit" [anima],
607 23 | body," but~still a body and not a spirit.~Accordingly,
608 23 | which weighs down the soul and the vices through~which "
609 23 | is why it is said, "Flesh and blood shall not inherit
610 23 | inherit the Kingdom of God," and~then, as if to expound what
611 23 | writer first called "flesh and blood" he later called "
612 23 | later called "corruption,"~and what he first called "the
613 23 | a concord between flesh and spirit - the spirit~quickening
614 23 | conflict within ourselves. And just as there will be no
615 23 | one Mediator between God and man, they will also rise
616 23 | together with the devil and his angels. Whether these~
617 23 | again with all their faults and deformities, with their
618 23 | deformities, with their diseased and deformed ~members - is there
619 23 | about their bodily form and beauty need not weary us,
620 23 | their damnation is certain and~eternal. And let us not
621 23 | is certain and~eternal. And let us not be moved to inquire
622 23 | itself, so to say, dies not; and where pain~perpetually afflicts
623 24 | 94. And thus it will be that while
624 24 | while the reprobated angels and men go on in their eternal~
625 24 | will sing to thee of mercy and judgment, O~Lord"~199 -
626 24 | save by unmerited mercy and no one is damned save by
627 24 | taken up by~God's mercy and the other abandoned through
628 24 | through God's judgment - and when the chosen one~knows
629 24 | Bethsaida. For if in Tyre~and Sidon had been wrought the
630 24 | repented long~ago in sackcloth and ashes."~200 Now, obviously,
631 24 | how certain, immutable, and effectual is the will of
632 24 | willeth nothing he cannot do, and how true is what is sung
633 24 | above in heaven; in heaven and on earth he hath done all
634 24(201)| major old editions, up to and including Migne, here read:
635 24(201)| salvation to the human will and would thus stand out in
636 24(201)| rest of the Enchiridion and elsewhere on the primacy
637 24(201)| elsewhere on the primacy and even irresistibility of
638 24(201)| VELLET (if _He_ willed it) and the reading became the subject
639 24(201)| controversy between the Jansenists and the Molinists. The Maurist
640 24(201)| Naples, 1847), p. 178; and H. Hurter, Sanctorum Patrum
641 24 | anything that he willed to~do and did not do, or, what were
642 24(202)| inexactly from Ps. 115:3 and Ps. 135:6; an interesting
643 24 | through a just judgment - and surely all that is just
644 24 | do whatsoever he willeth and because the efficacy of
645 24 | hen gathers her chicks, and you would not."~204 This
646 24 | overcome by human wills and as if the weakest, by not
647 24 | could not do what he willed. And where is that omnipotence
648 24 | whatsoever~he willed in heaven and on earth, he has done,"
649 24 | children of Jerusalem~together, and did not do so? Or, is it
650 24 | It is not that "in heaven and on earth" he~hath willed
651 24 | on earth" he~hath willed and done some things, and willed
652 24 | willed and done some things, and willed other things and
653 24 | and willed other things and not done them. Instead, "
654 25 | CHAPTER XXV - Predestination and the Justice of God~~
655 25 | willeth, when he willeth, and where he willeth - toward
656 25 | mercy on whom he willeth; and whom he willeth, he hardeneth."~205~
657 25(207)| Cf. Mal. 1:2, 3 and Rom. 9:13.~
658 25 | God should love the one and hate ~the other. Now, if
659 25 | future good deeds of~the one, and evil deeds of the other -
660 25 | whom I will have mercy, and I will show pity to whom
661 25 | Finally, the apostle~concludes and says, "Therefore, it is
662 25 | God's showing mercy."~212 And, indeed,~the whole visage
663 25 | whole visage of Scripture and, if I may speak so, the
664 25 | a mystery, most profound and salutary, to admonish all
665 25(213)| upon divine sovereignty and predestination is never
666 25(213)| to underscore the sheer and wonderful gratuity of salvation.~
667 25 | show through you my power, and that my name may be proclaimed
668 25 | ways, that is,~toward mercy and toward judgment: "Therefore,"
669 25 | mercy on whom he willeth,~and whom he willeth he hardeneth."
670 25 | mercy on whom he willeth and whom he~willeth he hardeneth" -
671 25 | apostle had no~answer to give; and, for lack of a reasonable
672 25 | has actually great weight and in an~argument like this
673 25 | the limits of his capacity and, at the ~same time, supplies
674 25 | he to talk back to God? And if one does~understand,
675 25 | against God's ~justice. And he also sees that those
676 25 | the whole mass deserved and to what end God's merited
677 26 | his acts of will"~218 -~and so wisely well-considered
678 26 | well-considered that when his angelic and human creation sinned (that
679 26 | what he himself had willed and~this through the same creaturely
680 26 | predestined to punishment and for the salvation of those
681 26 | will" - that in a ~strange and ineffable fashion even that
682 26 | without his allowing it - and surely his permission is
683 26 | God's will is much more, and much more certainly, good -
684 26 | wills that his father die and~this is also God's will.
685 26 | fitting for man to will and what is~fitting for God -
686 26 | what is~fitting for God - and also between the ends to
687 26 | a man directs his will - and this difference~determines
688 26 | Agabus had predicted!~220 And yet God had willed~that
689 26 | the preaching of Christ, and for the training of a~martyr
690 26 | of a~martyr for Christ. And this good purpose of his
691 26 | his purpose - for while he and the latter did the very
692 26 | Omnipotent is always ~undefeated. And this will can never be evil,
693 26 | evils, it is still just; and~obviously what is just is
694 26 | except what he doth will, and doth everything that he
695 27 | Accordingly, when we hear and read in sacred Scripture
696 27 | willeth must necessarily be. And, indeed, it was of prayer
697 27 | it can be divided: kings~and subjects; nobility and plebeians;
698 27 | kings~and subjects; nobility and plebeians; the high and
699 27 | and plebeians; the high and the low; the learned and
700 27 | and the low; the learned and unlearned; the healthy~and
701 27 | and unlearned; the healthy~and the sick; the bright, the
702 27 | sick; the bright, the dull, and the stupid; the rich, the
703 27 | stupid; the rich, the poor, and the middle class; ~males,
704 27 | adolescent, young adults and middle-aged and very old;
705 27 | young adults and middle-aged and very old; of~every tongue
706 27 | very old; of~every tongue and fashion, of all the arts,
707 27 | countless variety of wills and~minds and all the other
708 27 | variety of wills and~minds and all the other things that
709 27 | offered "for all men"~223 and especially~"for kings and
710 27 | and especially~"for kings and all those of exalted station,"~224
711 27 | whose worldly pomp and pride could be ~supposed
712 27 | argument, "for this is good and acceptable in the sight
713 27 | willeth that all men be saved and come to the knowledge of
714 27 | Pharisees, "You tithe mint and rue~and every herb."~227
715 27 | You tithe mint and rue~and every herb."~227 Obviously,
716 27 | done all things ~in heaven and earth, whatsoever he willed,"~228
717 27 | as Truth sings of him, and surely he hath not~willed
718 28 | in which he was created and would have brought him in
719 28 | even in man's doing evil, and so~that the good will of
720 28 | he could will~both good and evil - not without reward,
721 28 | the power to will evil; and yet this will~not thereby
722 28 | power whatsoever to will it.~And, just as in our present
723 28(229)| both the power not to sin and the power to sin (posse
724 28(229)| peccare (the power not to sin) and retained the posse peccare (
725 28(229)| posse peccare taken away and receive the highest of all,
726 28(229)| peccare. Cf. On Correction and Grace XXXIII.~
727 28(230)| between posset non mori and non possit mori.~
728 28 | life, if the aids of food and other means of ~preservation
729 28 | the bondage in which sin and death are the masters. ~
730 28 | goods are gifts from God, and when~life eternal is given
731 28 | therefore, made upright, and in such a fashion that he
732 28 | one Mediator between God and~man, Man himself, Christ
733 28 | who alone was born, lived,~and was put to death without
734 28 | to reconcile us to God, and provide even for our bodies
735 28 | resurrection to life eternal - and all this in order that man'
736 28 | s pride might be exposed and healed~through God's humility.
737 28 | lest pride spring up anew. And if there are other advantages
738 29 | intervenes between man's death and the final resurrection,
739 29 | does not need such helps, and, again, one so thoroughly
740 29 | they do not benefit all. And yet why~should they not
741 29 | not-so-very-bad [non valde ~malis], and, as for the very bad - even
742 29 | general judgment has been held and finished,~the boundary lines
743 29 | both including angels and men. In the one group, there
744 29 | will go on living truly and happily in life eternal.
745 29 | societies will then~be fixed and endless. But in the first
746 29 | outrank others in bliss, and in the second,~some will
747 29 | to merely human feelings~and deplore the notion of the
748 29 | punishment of the damned and their interminable and ~
749 29 | damned and their interminable and ~perpetual misery. They
750 29 | soften what seems harsh ~and give a milder emphasis to
751 29 | as still resting on them. And this is damnation -~for
752 29 | is [in man's damnation], and even if it were~present
753 29 | hidden for those who fear him and prepared for those~who hope
754 29 | therefore abide without end, and it will be common to them
755 29 | saints will abide forever, and~also be common to all of
756 29 | different the grades of rank and honor in which~they shine
757 30 | Christian Living: Faith and Hope~~
758 30 | men when it is considered and studied spiritually), there
759 30(241)| the treatise: faith, hope, and love.~
760 30 | some as meaning "in body and~spirit" - these blessings
761 30 | this day our daily bread. ~And forgive us our debts, as
762 30 | we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation,
763 30 | God's name, his Kingdom, and his~will, in our spirit
764 30 | his~will, in our spirit and body will abide perfectly
765 30 | body will abide perfectly and immortally. But in this
766 30 | measure required by soul and body, whether we take the~
767 30 | or bodily sense, or both. And here too it is that we petition
768 30 | temptations that allure and drive us to sinning;~here,
769 30 | repetition~of the first two, and makes this better understood
770 30 | bread, forgiveness of sins, and avoidance of temptation.~245 ~
771 30 | deliver us," instead of, "_And_ deliver~us," as if to indicate
772 31 | 117. And now regarding _love_, which
773 31 | other two - that~is, faith and hope - for the more richly
774 31 | who loves aright believes and hopes rightly. ~Likewise,
775 31 | happiness, unless he believes and~hopes for this: that he
776 31 | hopes for~life eternal - and who is there who does not
777 31 | who does not love that? - and yet does not love _righteousness_, ~
778 31 | that works through~love. And what it yet lacks in love
779 31 | seeks that it may find, and ~knocks that it may be opened
780 31 | impetrat quod lex imperat]. And, without the gift of God -
781 31(247)| Another wordplay on cupiditas and caritas.~
782 31 | sin"~249 has come to man, and the Holy Spirit has not
783 31 | vanquished - man sins knowingly and is~brought under the spell
784 31 | brought under the spell and made the slave of sin, "
785 31 | the first transgression. And thus it is that what was ~
786 31 | fulfilling His~commands, and if a man begins to be led
787 31(252)| external moral pressures and their power to arouse guilt
788 31 | power of the flesh.~253 And although there is still
789 31 | righteous man] ~lives by faith and lives righteously in so
790 31 | the repose of the spirit, and, at the last, in the resurrection
791 31 | the third is under grace, and the fourth is in full and
792 31 | and the fourth is in full and perfect peace. Thus, also,
793 31 | ordered~all things in measure and number and weight."~254
794 31 | things in measure and number and weight."~254 The first period
795 31 | dispensations, it was~veiled and hidden. For none of the
796 31 | from the ~faith of Christ. And, unless Christ had also
797 31 | to us - sometimes openly and sometimes obscurely - through
798 31 | regeneration finds a man, then and there all his past sins
799 31 | past sins are forgiven him and the guilt he ~contracted
800 31 | removed by his being reborn. And so true is it that "the
801 31 | this account Christ died and rose~again, that he might
802 31 | Lord of both the living and the dead."'~257 Nor will
803 32 | love, out of a pure heart, and a good conscience and a~
804 32 | heart, and a good conscience and a~faith unfeigned."~259
805 32 | includes both ~the love of God and the love of our neighbor
806 32 | the love of our neighbor and, indeed, "on these two commandments
807 32 | commandments hang all~the Law and the Prophets"~260 - and,
808 32 | and the Prophets"~260 - and, we may add, the gospel
809 32 | we may add, the gospel and the apostles, for from~nowhere
810 32 | commandment is love,"~261 and, "God is~love."~262~Therefore,
811 32 | whatsoever things God commands (and one of these is, "Thou shalt
812 32 | not commit~adultery"~263) and whatsoever things are not
813 32 | good spiritual counsel (and one of these is, "It is
814 32 | standard of our love of God and our love of our neighbor
815 32 | both in the present age and in the world to come. Now
816 32 | hidden things in the darkness and will make manifest the cogitations
817 32 | cogitations of the heart;~and then shall each one have
818 32 | for what will be praised and loved in a~neighbor by his
819 33 | ought not to be spurned and since I believe and hope
820 33 | spurned and since I believe and hope for good things for
821 33 | the help of~our Redeemer, and since I love you greatly
822 33 | prolixity! - on Faith, Hope, and Love.~