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1 1 | I would have you be wise in goodness~and simple in evil."~4~
2 1 | wise in goodness~and simple in evil."~4~
3 1(4) | interpolation, not found in the best MSS., adds, "As
4 1(4) | also no one can be wise in himself save only as he
5 1 | 2. Human wisdom consists in piety. This you have in
6 1 | in piety. This you have in the book of the saintly
7 1 | to speak of great issues in a few~sentences, do you?
8 1 | God should be worshipped in faith, hope, love," you
9 1 | everything you asked for in~your letter. If you have
10 1 | after above all else? What, in view of the divers heresies,
11 1 | only things - to seek for in religion. He who turns away
12 1 | heretic. Things that arise in sensory~experience, or that
13 1 | demonstrated by the reason. But in~matters that pass beyond
14 1 | who were divinely aided in~their senses and their minds
15 1 | that the holy and perfect in heart catch ~glimpses of
16 1 | of our endeavor. We begin in faith,~we are perfected
17 1 | faith,~we are perfected in sight.~8 This likewise is
18 1 | name_ of Christ is held in honor, but the reality itself
19 1(10) | Already, very early in his ministry (397), Augustine
20 1(10) | written De agone Christiano, in which he had reviewed and
21 1 | return to these three ways in which, as we said, God~should
22 1 | just to put an enchiridion in the hand. It is also necessary
23 1 | a great zeal be kindled in the heart. ~~
24 2 | burdened by great misery and in deep need of mercy, a prophet,
25 2 | how shall they invoke him~in whom they have not believed?"~13
26 2 | Thus, we have the Symbol. In these two we have the~three
27 2 | How shall~they invoke him in whom they have not ~believed?"~
28 2 | for what we do not believe in? We can, of course, believe
29 2 | can, of course, believe in~something that we do not
30 2 | faithful does not believe in the punishment~of the impious?
31 2 | threatening him and draws back in horror from it is more rightly
32 2 | to good, since we believe in both the good~and evil.
33 2 | only with those which lie in the future, and which~pertain
34 2 | faith and hope have this in~common: they refer to what
35 2 | this unseen is believed in or hoped for. Thus in~the
36 2 | believed in or hoped for. Thus in~the Epistle to the Hebrews,
37 2 | faith,"~as we are taught in "the sacred eloquence,"~17
38 2 | see, we then wait for it in patience."~18 When,~therefore,
39 3 | what we ought to believe in matters of religion, the
40 3 | answer is~not to be sought in the exploration of the nature
41 3 | insight, ~with their ardor in study and their abundant
42 3 | created things, whether in heaven~or on earth, whether
43 3(20) | De rerum natura. This is, in fact, the title of Lucretius'
44 3(20) | philosophical work written in classical Latin.~
45 3(21) | motif appears everywhere in Augustine's thought as the
46 3 | 11. In this universe, even what
47 3 | rightly ordered and~kept in its place, commends the
48 3 | would not allow any evil in his works, unless in his~
49 3 | evil in his works, unless in his~omnipotence and goodness,
50 3 | except the privation of good? In animal bodies, for~instance,
51 3 | whatever defects there ~are in a soul are privations of
52 3 | they are no longer present in the state of health, they
53 3(22) | Augustinian metaphysics. We see it in his earliest writings, Soliloquies,
54 3(22) | It has its origin, not in nature, but in the will.
55 3(22) | origin, not in nature, but in the will. Cf. Confessions,
56 4 | Creator of it. Thus the good in created ~things can be diminished
57 4 | corrupted, there is good in it of which it is being~
58 4 | it is being~deprived; and in this process, if something
59 4 | remains, for it is nothing in itself, having no subsistent
60 4 | having no subsistent being in which to exist.~
61 4 | Where there is some evil in a thing, its ~good is defective
62 4 | that, since every being, in so far as it is a being,
63 4 | est]. Nothing evil exists _in~itself_, but only as an
64 4 | Rather, he is a good entity in so far as~he is a man, evil
65 4 | far as~he is a man, evil in so far as he is wicked.
66 4 | are praising the defects in this~particular man _because_
67 4 | if it is a defective one,~in so far as it is an entity,
68 4 | it is an entity, is good. In so far as it is defective,
69 4 | 14. Actually, then, in~these two contraries we
70 4 | principle is found to apply in almost all disjunctions:
71 4 | contraries cannot coexist in a single thing. Nevertheless,
72 4 | all without the~good, or in a thing that is not a good.
73 4 | cannot be wickedness except~in a man or an angel. It is
74 4 | that if there were no good in what is evil, then the evil~
75 4 | since it can have no mode in which to exist, nor any
76 4 | therefore, have their source in the good, and unless they
77 4 | this is~the case, then, in so far as a thing is an
78 4 | that evil has its source in the good, do not suppose
79 4 | human~nature, which is good in itself, there can spring
80 4 | whence evil could have arisen in the first place except from
81 4 | except from the nature - good in~itself - of an angel or
82 4 | himself most clearly shows in the passage ~about the trees
83 5 | great physical~processes in the world, which are hidden
84 5 | world, which are hidden in the secret maze of nature,~~"
85 5 | causes of good and evil in things, at least as far
86 5 | as far as men may do so~in this life, filled as it
87 5 | with errors and distress, in order to avoid these errors
88 5 | nothing of greater concern~in these matters which we ought
89 5 | health. But when we are in~ignorance of such things,
90 5 | what patience there must be in unknowing.~
91 5 | wherever possible, not only in great matters but in~small
92 5 | only in great matters but in~small ones as well, it is
93 5 | false, this then is error, in the proper sense of the
94 5 | on the question involved in the error, for in one and
95 5 | involved in the error, for in one and the same question~
96 5 | and this with~good reason. In a complex issue, however,
97 5 | useful or even~harmful, who in this latter case would not
98 5 | there is sometimes profit in error - but on a~journey,
99 5 | but on a~journey, not in morals.~30 This sort of
100 5 | armed gang of Donatists lay in wait to ambush~us. We finally
101 5 | error. ~Who would doubt, in such a situation, that the
102 5(30) | Sed in via pedum, non in via morum.~
103 5(30) | Sed in via pedum, non in via morum.~
104 5 | consideration of the truth in this business. To err means
105 5 | to judge as true what is in fact false, and as false
106 5 | false. ~This sort of error in the mind is deforming and
107 5 | would~be to be able to say, in speech or judgment: "Yes,
108 5 | unavoidable. It is different in that higher life where Truth
109 5 | deceives and none is deceived. In this life men deceive and
110 5 | Indeed, he does not err in his~lying, if he himself
111 5 | truth is. But he is deceived in this, that he supposes that
112 6 | which I once dealt with in a large book, in~response
113 6 | dealt with in a large book, in~response to the urgent question
114 6 | so far as to contend that in cases concerning the worship
115 6 | not sin as much who lies in the attempt to be helpful
116 6 | supposes is the truth, since in his case he does not ~deceive
117 6 | however, that ~man is a liar in his own conscience who speaks
118 6 | though the truth did come out in what he said. Nor is a man
119 6 | unknowingly speaks the truth while in his heart he is attempting
120 6 | does not have one intention in his heart and another in
121 6 | in his heart and another in his word, whereas the other, ~
122 6 | whatever be the facts in his statement, still "has
123 6 | has one thought locked in his heart, another ready
124 6(34) | translation by H.B. Jaffee in Deferrari, St. Augustine:
125 6(34) | c. 395; see De mendacio in CSEL (J. Zycha, ed.), Vol.
126 6(34) | translation by M.S. Muldowney in Deferrari, op. cit., pp.
127 6 | makes a great difference in what respect one is deceived
128 6 | than for one to be deceived in matters where~faith and
129 6 | incomparably better to lie in the first case than to be
130 6 | case than to be deceived in the second? And would it
131 6 | 19. In some things, then, we are
132 6 | things, then, we are deceived in great matters; in others,
133 6 | deceived in great matters; in others, small. In some of
134 6 | matters; in others, small. In some of them~no harm is
135 6 | of them~no harm is done; in others, even good results.
136 6 | a falsehood as the truth in a matter where one brings
137 6 | good use by being borne in faithful~patience - as for
138 6 | saying refers to the things in which men are evil and not
139 6 | such a man is not ~deceived in his doctrine of good and
140 6 | this particular man good in~ignorance of the fact that
141 6 | adulterer and not chaste. In similar fashion, if one
142 6 | mistakes. But when I say that in such a case a~man may be
143 6 | which came out of it. Error, in itself and by itself, whether
144 6 | whether a ~great error in great matters or a small
145 6 | matters or a small error in small affairs, is always
146 6 | bad thing. For who,~except in error, denies that it is
147 7 | Knowledge and Certainty in Various Matters~~
148 7 | occur which we experience in the spirit (such as the
149 7 | chains by the angel~36) Or in perceptual illusions when
150 7 | men look alike, as happens in the case of twins - whence
151 7 | positively lest he be involved in the error of affirming as
152 7 | points I wrote~three books in the early stages of my conversion
153 7 | error if ~someone believes in what is uncertain. For them,
154 7 | however, nothing is certain in human~experience, because
155 7(38) | refutation of skepticism is in III, 23ff. Throughout his
156 7 | implies a living subject. But, in such a case, by not positively
157 7 | the appearance of error in themselves, yet they do
158 7 | 21. In those things which do not
159 7 | whether they are believed in or not, or whether they
160 7 | be true or ~false. To err in such questions, to mistake
161 7 | as a small and light one. In sum, whatever kind or how
162 7 | of life was not abandoned in that error so dear to parents
163 7 | thing for something else. In his case, he did not discover
164 7 | believed that his son, who was in fact alive, had been devoured
165 7 | this kind, with our faith in God still safe,~nor do we
166 7 | unrelated to the misery in which we still exist. ~Actually,
167 7 | course, we would be deceived in nothing at all, either in
168 7 | in nothing at all, either in our souls or our physical~
169 7 | man ought to speak what is in his heart - not only when
170 7 | the~opposite of what is in his heart, with the deliberate
171 7 | Now clearly, language, in~its proper function, was
172 7 | Wherefore to use~language in order to deceive, and not
173 7 | then, we hold chastity in such high regard,~wherein
174 7 | what is rightly praised in such a forward step, and
175 8 | evil - enough to lead us in the way toward the ~Kingdom,
176 8 | we ought not to doubt in any way that the cause of
177 8 | immutable. This happened first in the case ~of the angels
178 8 | privation of the good. ~In train of this there crept
179 8 | train of this there crept in, even without his willing
180 8 | imminent, the soul's motion in ~flight from them is called
181 8 | Yet such a nature, even in its evil state, could not
182 8 | both men and angels have in common, for whose wickedness
183 8 | God hath ~condemned them in simple justice. But man
184 8 | with freedom of the will in order that he might rule
185 8 | death. He even placed him in the happiness of paradise
186 8 | the happiness of paradise in a sheltered~nook of life [
187 8 | sheltered~nook of life [in umbra vitae] where, by being
188 8 | radically corrupted them, in ~himself, by his sinning.
189 8 | sinned."~44 By "the world" in this passage the apostle
190 8 | lying ruined and wallowing in evil, being plunged from
191 8 | the anger of God rests, in full justice, on the deeds
192 8 | that the wicked~do freely in blind and unbridled lust;
193 8 | lust; and it is manifest in whatever penalties they
194 8 | sustain life and~vitality even in the evil angels, for were _
195 8 | seed, to direct his members in their temporal order, to
196 8 | order, to enliven his~senses in their spatial relations,
197 8 | should~be no reformation in the case of men, as there
198 8 | the image of the Creator in himself,~who had in the
199 8 | Creator in himself,~who had in the evil use of his free
200 9 | the angels deserted God in impious pride and were cast
201 9 | of the angels~persevered in eternal bliss and holiness
202 9 | original evil did not bind them in the fetters~of inherited
203 9 | became the devil first rose in rebellion with his impious~
204 9 | of the angels stood fast in pious obedience~to the Lord
205 9 | their everlasting~security in his unfailing steadfastness.~
206 9 | angels had not perished in this desertion of him, those
207 9 | perished would ~remain forever in perdition, but those who
208 9 | revolt should go on~rejoicing in the certain knowledge of
209 9 | diabolical disaster had caused in the angelic society. For
210 9 | mother, who seemed barren in the earth, but whose sons
211 9 | will abide time~without end in the peace the demons lost.
212 9 | belong or those who will in the future, is known to
213 9 | and "ordereth all things in measure and ~number and
214 9 | deliverance and a~place in the eternal Kingdom be restored
215 9 | Of course not! For it was in the evil use~of his free
216 9 | liberty: the joy that comes in doing what is right. At
217 9 | is also devoted service in obedience to righteous precept.~
218 9 | before this process begins in man, could anyone glory
219 9 | man, could anyone glory in his good works as if they
220 9 | this only if, puffed up in ~proud vanity, he were merely
221 9 | the faithful are lacking in good works, he added~further, "
222 9 | his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus to good works,
223 9 | beforehand for us to walk in them."~53~We are then truly
224 9 | indeed be new creatures in Christ Jesus.~54 Accordingly,
225 9 | Accordingly, the prayer: "Create in me~a clean heart, O God."~55
226 9 | lest anyone glory, if not in his own works, at least
227 9 | his own works, at least in the determination of his~
228 9 | it is God who is at work in you both to will and to
229 9 | his good will."~56 And,~in another place: "It is not
230 9 | prize of his high calling~in God without a decision of
231 9 | a decision of his will. In what sense, therefore, is
232 9 | antedate is - just itself! Thus in the Sacred Eloquence we
233 9(59) | though they involved him in a paradox and the appearance
234 9(59) | responsibility on man's part in responding to the initiatives
235 9 | God is even now at work in them and in their wills?~63
236 9 | now at work in them and in their wills?~63 Or~again,
237 9 | are we admonished to ask in order to receive, unless
238 9(63) | theme that he had explored in Confessions, Bks. I-IX.
239 10 | the human race was bound in a just doom and all men
240 10 | are wasted; we are ruined in thy wrath; our ~years seem
241 10 | of it: "He that believes in the~Son has life everlasting,
242 10 | the wrath of God~abides in him."~66 He does not say, "
243 10 | others."~67 Since men are in this state of wrath through
244 10 | signify any such perturbation in him as~there is in the soul
245 10 | perturbation in him as~there is in the soul of a wrathful man.
246 10 | matters. For who can unfold in cogent enough fashion this ~
247 10 | that we should then believe~in "the only Son of God the
248 10 | understand~"man," an expression in which the part signifies
249 10 | certainly we must say that in that~assumption nothing
250 10 | of which is washed away in ~regeneration. Instead,
251 10 | fleshly desires. Now if in his being born, her virginity
252 10(72) | Epistle CXXXVII, written in 412 in reply to a list of
253 10(72) | CXXXVII, written in 412 in reply to a list of queries
254 10 | before all ages; he is~man in this age of ours. He is
255 10 | Yet he is man also, since in the unity of his Person
256 10 | to the~Word.~Accordingly, in so far as he is God, he
257 10 | the Father are one. Yet in so far as he is man, the~
258 10 | of Man - and yet he~was in the one nature as well as
259 10 | the one nature as well as in the other, one Christ. "
260 10 | one Christ. "For being in the form of God, he ~judged
261 10 | remained equal, and both these in a unity as we said before.
262 10(75) | favorite figures of speech in Augustine's Christological
263 11 | 36. In this the grace of God is
264 11 | supremely manifest, commended in grand and visible fashion;~
265 11 | what had the human nature in the man Christ merited,
266 11 | and sole grace, and this in order that~they might understand
267 11 | mean, that Christ's birth in respect to his human nature
268 11 | that which is conceived in her is of~the Holy ~Spirit"~79 -
269 12 | has, when it is so absurd in itself that no believer'
270 12 | the Virgin Mary, there is in each nature (in both the
271 12 | there is in each nature (in both the divine~and the
272 12 | our Lord Jesus Christ - in the~form of God - all things
273 12 | all things were made. Yet in so far as he is man, he
274 12 | One of the Three is~named in connection with some divine
275 12 | understood as involved ~in that action? This is true
276 12 | Holy Spirit," when he is in no~wise the Son of the Holy
277 12 | Virgin Mary," the sense in which he~is not the Son
278 12 | a son is "born" of a man in a different~sense than a
279 12 | are an unfitting analogy in so great a matter. Yet it
280 12 | something else, yet not in the fashion of a~"son,"
281 12 | this is the very mode in which Christ was "born"
282 12 | joined to the Word~of God in such a unity of person that
283 12 | should be Son of Man. Thus, in his assumption of human
284 13 | was begotten and conceived in no pleasure of carnal appetite -
285 13 | grace of God (operating in a marvelous and an ~ineffable
286 13 | manner), joined and united in a personal unity with the
287 13 | likeness of sinful flesh"~81 in which he came, he was himself
288 13 | the righteousness of God in ~him."~83 He does not say,
289 13 | does not say, as we read in some defective copies, "
290 13 | not our own but God's, not in~ourselves but in him. Just
291 13 | s, not in~ourselves but in him. Just as he was sin -
292 13 | own but ours, rooted not in himself but in us -~so he
293 13 | rooted not in himself but in us -~so he showed forth
294 13 | likeness of sinful flesh, in which he was crucified,
295 13 | that since sin~was not in him he could then, so to
296 13 | say, die to sin by dying in the flesh, which was "the
297 13 | since he had never lived in the old manner of sinning,
298 13 | manner of sinning, he might, in his resurrection,~signify
299 13 | anew from the old death in which we~had been dead to
300 13 | died to sin because he~died in the flesh, that is, "in
301 13 | in the flesh, that is, "in the likeness of sin" - and
302 13 | thereby alive by being reborn in the~baptismal font, just
303 13 | who does not die to sin in baptism. Infants die to ~
304 13 | with many warriors. And in our own Scriptures we read: "
305 13 | the converse expression in which the singular is expressed
306 13 | the plural number. Thus in the~Gospel, it is said of
307 13 | not say, "He is dead." And in Exodus: "They made," [Moses]
308 13 | 45. Still, even in that one sin - which "entered
309 13 | elements. For there is pride in it, since man~preferred
310 13 | that could be discovered in the diligent analysis of~
311 13 | that infants are involved in the sins of their~parents,
312 13 | proverb any longer~apply in Israel, "Our fathers have
313 13 | absolved of~whatever sin was in him at the time of birth.
314 13 | wedlock said, "I was~conceived in iniquities; and in sins
315 13 | conceived in iniquities; and in sins did my mother nourish
316 13 | did my mother nourish me in her womb."~91 Nor did he
317 13 | womb."~91 Nor did he say~"in iniquity" or "in sin," as
318 13 | he say~"in iniquity" or "in sin," as he might have quite
319 13 | there are so many sins in that one sin - which has~
320 13 | cannot change our nature in the same way, still involve
321 13 | still involve the children in guilt,~unless the gracious
322 13 | 47. But, in the matter of the sins of
323 13 | man at birth ~is involved in the evil deeds of all his
324 13 | sins, so that the later~in time he is born, the worse
325 13 | worse estate he is born in; or whether, on this very
326 13 | fourth generations,~because in his mercy he will not continue
327 13 | under too heavy a burden in their eternal~damnation,
328 14 | sin, however, committed in a setting of such great
329 14 | itself so great~that by it, in one man, the whole human
330 14 | who alone could be born in such a way as not to need
331 14 | for the Lord,"~94 for Him in whom alone they could be
332 14 | Thus,~whoever believes in Christ is reborn by that
333 14 | of changeless eternity, in order to show us that this
334 14 | he~chose to be baptized in water by John, not thereby
335 14 | Indeed, baptism found nothing in him to wash away, just as
336 14 | to punish. Hence, it was in authentic justice, and not
337 14 | unjustly slain Him who was in no way~deserving of death,
338 14 | whom he had justly held in bondage as~punishment for
339 14 | he originally inherited in common with all the others
340 14 | mystery of holy baptism in the cross of Christ, and
341 14 | understand nothing~other in the baptism of Christ than
342 14 | forgiveness of sins - so that in the very same~sense in which
343 14 | that in the very same~sense in which the death is real,
344 14 | forgiveness of our sins real, and in the same sense ~in which
345 14 | and in the same sense ~in which his resurrection is
346 14 | resurrection is real, so also in us is there authentic justification.~
347 14 | we say? Shall we continue in sin, that grace may abound?"~98 -~
348 14 | one should then continue in sin. But he answers, "God
349 14 | all we who were baptized in Christ Jesus were baptized
350 14 | infants who are baptized in Christ die to sin, since
351 14 | For there is no exception in the saying, "All we who
352 14 | what sin~do infants die to in being reborn except that
353 14 | that which they inherit in being born? What follows
354 14 | being born? What follows in~the epistle also pertains
355 14 | even so we also should walk in~the newness of life. For
356 14 | have been united with him in the likeness of his death,
357 14 | be~also united with him in the likeness of his resurrection,
358 14 | should not go on sinning, in~order that thereby grace
359 14 | then, shall we~go on living in it?" And then to show that
360 14 | introduced the death of Christ in order to ~say that even
361 14 | save that of the flesh in which he existed, not as
362 14 | existed, not as sinner,~but in "the likeness of sin" and
363 14 | to sin, but alive to God in ~Christ Jesus."~
364 14 | Whatever was done, therefore, in the crucifixion of Christ,
365 14 | also ~should walk with him in newness of life"; of his
366 14 | life is hid with Christ in God."~104~
367 14 | then also appear with him in glory."~105~
368 14 | who will be found living in the flesh~when he comes;
369 14 | passed upon the evil, as in the word, "But they who
370 14 | passed upon the good,~as in the word, "Save me, O God,
371 14 | by thy name, and judge me in thy strength."~107 Indeed,
372 15 | only Son of God our Lord, in the brevity~befitting our
373 15 | affirm that we believe also in the Holy Spirit, as ~completing
374 15 | call to mind our faith "in holy Church." By~this we
375 15 | Jerusalem ought to be mentioned in a~subordinate order to the
376 15 | subordinate to him who dwells in it, the temple to God, and
377 15(110)| Latin form poscebat (as in Scheel and PL) for the late
378 15(110)| the late form poxebat (as in Riviere and many old MSS.). ~
379 15 | but also that part which, in heaven, has always, from ~
380 15 | the holy angels, remains in blessedness, and it gives
381 15 | as even now they~are one in the bond of love - the whole
382 15(112)| Riviere and PL) against deum (in Scheel).~
383 15 | levels of ~creation. But in this case he would not be
384 15 | case he would not be set in the rule of faith _before_
385 15 | belong _to_ the Church, in that part of it which is
386 15 | that part of it which is in heaven. He would not have ~
387 15 | would be a temple. Yet, in fact, he hath a temple of
388 15 | the Holy Spirit, who is in you, whom you~have from
389 15 | you~have from God?"~114 In another place, he says of
390 15 | the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?" God~therefore dwelleth
391 15 | God~therefore dwelleth in his temple, not the Holy
392 15 | who saith of~his body - in which he standeth as Head
393 15 | the Church on earth "that in all things he may be~pre-eminent"~116 - "
394 15 | Destroy this temple and in three days I will raise
395 15 | Church, the ~Universal Church in heaven and on the earth.~
396 15 | that part of the Church in heaven, save that in it
397 15 | Church in heaven, save that in it no evil is~to be found,
398 15 | the prisons of darkness in hell, to be reserved for
399 15 | reserved for the sentence in the Day of Judgment"~118?~
400 15 | Still, how is life ordered in that most blessed and supernal
401 15 | What differences are~there in rank among the angels, so
402 15 | title "angels" - as we~read in the Epistle to the Hebrews, "
403 15 | explain the kind of bodies in which the angels appeared
404 15 | too? For, as it is written in the book~of the Prophets: "
405 15 | And the angel that spoke in me, said to me . . ."~122
406 15 | Spoke ~_to_ me" but "Spoke _in_ me." How do they appear
407 15 | How do they appear to men in sleep, and communicate through~
408 15 | through~dreams, as we read in the Gospel: "Behold, the
409 15 | the Lord appeared to him in his sleep, ~saying..."~123?
410 15 | Jacob wrestle with the angel in such a tangible~fashion?~125~
411 15 | is not a useless~exercise in speculation, so long as
412 16 | this business is useful in this respect: it shows that
413 16 | man should rest his hopes in himself, nor~one man in
414 16 | in himself, nor~one man in another, but all who are
415 16 | known to us because we are in it, and because it ~is composed
416 16 | angels, taught by God - in the eternal contemplation
417 16 | things are restored to unity in Christ,~both those in heaven
418 16 | unity in Christ,~both those in heaven and those on the
419 16 | heaven and those on the earth in him."~127 The part in heaven
420 16 | earth in him."~127 The part in heaven is indeed restored ~
421 16 | plenitude of being should dwell~in him and by him to reconcile
422 16 | things on earth or those in heaven."~128~
423 16 | by concord with us? For in that realm there is~always
424 16 | understanding may be, "we know in part, and we see in a glass
425 16 | know in part, and we see in a glass darkly."~129 But ~
426 16 | as we are loved by them.~In this way their peace will
427 16 | ours will be like theirs in kind and~measure - nor will
428 16 | as well. For, of course, in so far as a rational~creature
429 17 | XVII - Forgiveness of Sins in the Church~~
430 17 | 64. The angels are in concord with us even now,
431 17 | are forgiven. Therefore, in~the order of the Creed,
432 17 | point of a man's renewal, in~which all guilt, inherited
433 17 | how vigorously we progress in righteousness), is not without
434 17 | live~this mortal life, are in a conflict with death. And
435 17 | men even while~they live in this mortality, that they
436 17 | ourselves, and the truth is not in us."~134~
437 17 | should never be~despaired of in holy Church for those who
438 17 | measure of his sin. ~And, in the act of repentance,~135
439 17(135)| In actione poenitentiae; cf.
440 17(135)| conception of poenitentiam agite in the 95 Theses and in De
441 17(135)| agite in the 95 Theses and in De poenitentia. ~
442 17 | satisfaction may also be made in the Church, in which the
443 17 | also be made in the Church, in which the sins are ~forgiven.
444 17 | with the future judgment. In this life the~Scripture
445 17 | the day of their burial in the mother of us all."~139
446 17 | for the future. It is not in vain that the day when the
447 17 | certainly bring no harm upon us in the~future age. Hence, referring
448 17 | are visited upon sinners in~this life, the apostle,
449 18(141)| re-use "good material." In his treatise on The Eight
450 18(141)| best English translation is in Deferrari, St. Augustine:
451 18 | Christ,~and who are baptized in his laver in the Church,
452 18 | are baptized in his laver in the Church, who are not
453 18 | heresy, ~who may then live in sins however great, not
454 18 | who obstinately persevere in them to life's last day -
455 18 | punished by fire, prolonged in~proportion to their sins,
456 18 | entitled Faith and Works,~142 in which, with God's help,
457 18 | describes when he says, "For in Christ Jesus neither circumcision~
458 18(142)| short treatise, written in 413, in which Augustine
459 18(142)| treatise, written in 413, in which Augustine seeks to
460 18(142)| is that of Joseph Zycha in CSEL, Vol. 41, pp. 35-97;
461 18(142)| translation by C.L. Cornish in A Library of Fathers of
462 18 | apostle James "it is dead in~itself."~144 He then goes
463 18 | Now, if those who persist in such crimes~as these are
464 18 | nevertheless saved by their faith in Christ, would they not then
465 18 | would they not then be in the Kingdom of ~God?~
466 18 | fully plain testimonies. In fact, wood and hay and stubble
467 18 | things - albeit~legitimate in themselves - that one cannot
468 18 | their loss without anguish in the soul. Now,~when such
469 18 | his place as foundation in the heart - that is, if~
470 18 | saved, "by fire." But if, in time of~testing, he should
471 18 | because he has put "things" in the first place - whereas
472 18 | the first place - whereas in a~building nothing comes
473 18 | This kind of~fire works in the span of this life, just
474 18 | possessive love. But because, in this second situation, he
475 18 | sort of purgatorial fire, in proportion as they have
476 18 | the goods that perish, and in~proportion to their attachment
477 18 | stress that our Lord tells us in advance that,~on the bare
478 18 | bare basis of fruitfulness in alms, he will impute merit
479 19 | to~sin"~154 - although, in his mercy, he does blot
480 19 | say, "Our Father who art in heaven," who~have already
481 19 | man gives alms, not only in that he forgives and ~prays,
482 19 | forgives and ~prays, but also in that he rebukes and administers
483 19 | corrective punishment, since in this he shows~mercy.~Now,
484 19 | we do them, we are helped in obtaining forgiveness of
485 19 | believe are heard~when, in prayer, they say, "Forgive
486 19 | repentant~of his sins can in no way suppose that his
487 19 | this sentence which he put in it, saying: "For if you
488 20 | surely, those who live in gross wickedness and take
489 20 | alms, flatter ~themselves in vain with the Lord's words, "
490 20 | far this saying reaches. In order for them to understand,
491 20 | this is the context of it in the Gospel: "As he was~speaking,
492 20 | dine with him. And he went in and reclined at the table. ~
493 20 | if they have not believed~in him, nor been reborn of
494 20 | were unwilling~to believe in Christ and to be born again
495 20 | Christ and to be born again in his grace? And yet, what
496 20 | with the sin we contracted in birth. This is the first ~
497 20 | verdict by which we were put~in need of that mercy, of which
498 20 | herald of grace then adds (in a word of thanksgiving for~
499 20 | commendeth his love toward us in that, while we were yet
500 20 | mercy toward themselves. In reference to this right~