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501  20     |      purchase impunity to continue in the enormity of their~crimes
502  20     |          always choose to continue in them - if they could do
503  21     |        determine. For we see that, in respect of some sins, even
504  21     |         point. Such a case is seen in what the venerable Paul
505  21     |         those who are~contemptible in the Church's eyes. I say
506  21     |         law with brother, and~that in the presence of ~unbelievers."~175
507  21     |        that the only sin consisted in wishing it judged outside
508  21     |        take your tunic and contend in court with you, let go your
509  21     |          your cloak also."~178 And in~another place: "If a man
510  21     |            to court with other men in secular suits. And it is
511  21     |           such suits to be decided in~the Church, brothers judging
512  21     |            these, such as offenses in~words and thoughts - and
513  21     |          confesses, "we all offend in many ~things,"~180 it behooves
514  21     |           brother, "You fool," is "in danger of hell-fire," if
515  21     |        projects on certain days or in~certain months or years,
516  21     |           from the apostle's~fear, in saying to such men, "I fear
517  21     |           I have labored among you in vain"~182?~
518  21     |              The sinner is praised in the desires of his soul;
519  21     |          iniquity is~blessed."~183~In the divine books such iniquity
520  21     |              You have such a usage in the~prophet Isaiah's reference
521  21     |            So also is that passage in Genesis: "The cry of Sodom~
522  21     |         sanctioned by law. So also in our times so many evils,
523  21     |           perchance I have labored~in vain among you," I was moved
524  22     |        have often discussed before in other places in my short~
525  22     |   discussed before in other places in my short~treatises.~186
526  22     |         open-eyed, into known sin. In this latter ~case, we are
527  22     |          to Him of whom it is said in the psalm, "The~Lord is
528  22(186)|              II, xxii, 26; Quaest. in Heptateuch, 4:24; De libero
529  22     |     because of weakness, even when in Church custom~there is an
530  22     |            make~him humble himself in penitence. Wherefore, not
531  22     |            one to repent, but also in order that he ~may be enabled
532  22     |        would not say~of some men, "In case God giveth them repentance."~188
533  22     |     believe that sins are forgiven in the Church, who despises
534  22     |           persists to his last day in such an obstinacy of ~mind -
535  22     |           against the Holy Spirit, in whom Christ~forgiveth sins.~190
536  22     |             as clearly as I could, in a little book ~devoted exclusively
537  22(191)|          This libellus is included in Augustine's Sermons (LXXI,
538  22(191)|            the title De blasphemia in Spiritum Sanctum. English
539  22(191)|       Sanctum. English translation in N-PNF, 1st Series, Vol.
540  23     |            which are indeed "born" in the mother's womb, but are
541  23     |            affirm it either - that in~the resurrection day what
542  23     |   resurrection day what is lacking in the forms of things will
543  23     |          human being begin to live in the womb? Is there~some
544  23     |      hidden life, not yet apparent in the motions of a living
545  23     |           seem much too rash. But, in any case, once a man begins
546  23     |          he~would not have a share in the resurrection of the
547  23     |   resurrection is not to be denied in the cases of monsters which
548  23     |           as they~were, but rather in an amended nature and free
549  23     |    double-limbed man recently born in the Orient - about whom
550  23     |           been born twins. So also in other~cases, which, because
551  23(193)|        refers to similar phenomena in The City of God, XVI. viii,
552  23     |          turned into~their flesh - in an instant of time this
553  23     |         the same parts of the body in which they were~situated -
554  23     |            wholly unbecoming image in the minds of those~who speculate
555  23     |            them thus to disbelieve in the resurrection. But take
556  23     |          God - an artist who works in marvelous~and mysterious
557  23     |           will make no difference, in~the restoration, whether
558  23     |     because there were differences in stature when first alive,
559  23     |          the fat come back to life in their former obesity. But
560  23     |            obesity. But if this is in the Creator's plan, that~
561  23     |        nothing as he wills.~But if in the bodies of those rising
562  23     |         bring men into their place in the angelic band and impose
563  23     |         will also rise again, each in his own~flesh, but only
564  23     |            life unless it be~lived in happiness; no true incorruptibility
565  23     |   endlessly. This state is called, in ~the Scripture, "the second
566  23     |           neither the first death, in which the soul is compelled
567  23     |        body, nor the~second death, in which it is not allowed
568  23     |            somewhat more tolerable in proportion to~the lesser
569  24     |    Spiritual Enigmas to Be Awaited in the Life of the World To
570  24     |    reprobated angels and men go on in their eternal~punishment,
571  24     |         meaning of what is written in The Psalms: "I will sing
572  24     |         have been his just deserts in judgment - why was the one
573  24     |          were miracles not~wrought in the presence of certain
574  24     |            who would have repented in the face of miraculous~works,
575  24     |        while miracles were wrought in the presence of those who
576  24     |          to you, Bethsaida. For if in Tyre~and Sidon had been
577  24     |          wrought the miracles done in your midst, they would have
578  24     |       would have repented long~ago in sackcloth and ashes."~200
579  24     |           God did not act unjustly in not willing their~salvation,
580  24     |            willed it so.~201 Then, in the~clearest light of wisdom,
581  24     |         faith, not yet grasping it in~clear ~understanding - how
582  24     |           how true is what is sung in ~the psalm: "But our God
583  24     |       psalm: "But our God is above in heaven; in heaven and on
584  24     |            God is above in heaven; in heaven and on earth he hath
585  24(201)|          one of the rare instances in which a textual variant
586  24(201)|            which a textual variant in Augustine's text affects
587  24(201)|         text affects a basic issue in the interpretation of his
588  24(201)|     attribution of a decisive role in human salvation to the human
589  24(201)|           and would thus stand out in bold relief from his general
590  24(201)|            from his general stress in the rest of the Enchiridion
591  24(201)|           of Augustine, by Arnauld in 1648, read SI VELLET (if _
592  24(201)|         available up to that time. In modern times, the si vellet
593  24     |          Therefore, although evil, in so far as it is evil, is
594  24     |           imperiled - the~sentence in which we profess to believe
595  24     |        which we profess to believe in God the Father Almighty.
596  24     |          language is clearer when, in the Gospel, he~reproveth
597  24     |        which "whatsoever~he willed in heaven and on earth, he
598  24     |          he would? It is not that "in heaven and on earth" he~
599  25     |           which he had just spoken in~connection with the twin
600  25     |  connection with the twin children in Rebecca's womb: "Before
601  25     |         done anything good or bad, in order that the electing
602  25     |           Is there unrighteousness in God? God forbid!"~208 Yet
603  25     |         there should be unfairness in God"~- he proceeds immediately
604  25     |           prove that no unfairness in God is involved here), "
605  25     |       because they were both bound in the fetters of damnation
606  25     |           have mercy," loved Jacob in~unmerited mercy, yet hated
607  25     |      instead, that he should glory in the abundance of divine
608  25     |          who glories, should glory in the Lord."~213~
609  25     |          had commended God's mercy in saying, "So then, there
610  25     |         God's showing mercy," next in order he~intends to speak
611  25     |          my name may be proclaimed in~all the earth."~214 Then,
612  25     |           of no unfairness at all. In this way, neither does he
613  25     |          have a basis for glorying in~any merit of his own; nor
614  25     |       having been mingled together in the one mass of perdition,
615  25     |          But if any man hears this in such a way as to say: "Why
616  25     |          stupid men who think that in this part of the argument
617  25     |          actually great weight and in an~argument like this recalls
618  25     |    argument like this recalls man, in a single word, to consider
619  25     |           human race was condemned in its apostate head by a divine
620  25     |            those~disposed to glory in their own merits should
621  25     |          he that glories may glory in the~Lord."~217~~
622  26     |          the Lord, well-considered in all his acts of will"~218 -~
623  26     |          to achieve their purpose. In their very ~act of going
624  26     |         are great, well-considered in all his acts of will" -
625  26     |           his acts of will" - that in a ~strange and ineffable
626  26     |            evil to be done, unless in his omnipotence he could~
627  26     |         Satan" by him who had come in order to be slain.~219 How
628  26     |           on whom ~he willeth," or in justice "whom he willeth,
629  27     | Accordingly, when we hear and read in sacred Scripture that God "
630  27     |          his will should be sought in prayer, because if he willeth,~
631  27     |         understand what is written in~the Gospel about Him "who
632  27     |         enlightened except by God.~In any case, the word concerning
633  27     |   understand the whole of mankind, in every single group into
634  27     |         the Omnipotent cannot will in vain, whatsoever he~willeth.~
635  27     |        this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour"~225- ~
636  27     |         the ~same manner of speech in the Gospel, where he saith
637  27     |              We~could interpret it in any other fashion, as long
638  27     |           He hath done all things ~in heaven and earth, whatsoever
639  28     |        preserve even the first man in that state of~salvation
640  28     |            that state of~salvation in which he was created and
641  28     |         and would have brought him in due season, after the begetting~
642  28     |         could do good to man, even in man's doing evil, and so~
643  28     |        that man should be created, in the first place, so that
644  28     |            he willed the evil. But in the future life he will
645  28     |           to will it.~And, just as in our present state, our soul
646  28     |           yet it was immortality - in which man was capable of
647  28     |        order which is~to be is one in which man will be incapable
648  28(229)|         peccare et posse peccare). In Adam's original sin, man
649  28(229)|          he continues to exercise. In the fulfillment of grace,
650  28     |        although sin had its origin in free will alone, still free
651  28     |         aid had been afforded man, in the gift of participation
652  28     |          the gift of participation in the~immutable good. Thus,
653  28     |            die when he wills it is in a man's own hands -~since
654  28     |            lacking.~Similarly, man in paradise was capable of
655  28     |          be freed from the bondage in which sin and death are
656  28     |            which is~made effectual in the faith of Christ. Thus,
657  28     |            of God is ~eternal life in Christ Jesus our Lord."~232
658  28     |       therefore, made upright, and in such a fashion that he could
659  28     |           he could either continue in that~uprightness - though
660  28     |        judgment; lest anyone~glory in man, or - what is the same
661  28     |           what is the same thing - in himself. ~
662  28     |        life eternal - and all this in order that man's pride might
663  28     |          recalled to God; that man in his contumacy might be furnished
664  28     |      redeemed - might be previewed in the~resurrection of the
665  28     |        giving man ground for glory in~himself, lest pride spring
666  29     |         has~merited while it lived in the body.~
667  29     |            dead, or alms are given in the ~church. But these means
668  29     |         nothing. It is here, then, in this life,~that all merit
669  29     |          whereby a man's condition in the life hereafter is improved
670  29     |           neglected to obtain here in this life.~So, then, those
671  29     |         the Church constantly uses in interceding for the dead
672  29     |      according to what he has done in the body, whether~good or
673  29     |           for himself while living in the body earned the merit~
674  29     |            kinds of lives men lead in the~body? Accordingly, when
675  29     |            benefit consists either in obtaining a~full forgiveness
676  29     |          forgiveness or, at least, in making damnation more tolerable.~
677  29     |          including angels and men. In the one group, there will
678  29     |            will be~no will to sin, in the other, no power to sin,
679  29     |           living truly and happily in life eternal. The second
680  29     |       second will go on,~miserable in death eternal, with no power
681  29     |          be fixed and endless. But in the first city, some will
682  29     |           some will outrank others in bliss, and in the second,~
683  29     |       outrank others in bliss, and in the second,~some will have
684  29     |                   112. It is quite in vain, then, that some -
685  29     |           say, "to show mercy, nor in his anger will he shut up~
686  29     |            up~his mercy." This is, in fact, the text of a holy
687  29     |           is not a violent passion in the divine mind, is called "
688  29     |            mind, is called "wrath" in God. Yet~even in his wrath -
689  29     |            wrath" in God. Yet~even in his wrath - his wrath resting
690  29     |      interpose some little respite in their~torments. For the
691  29     |          After_ his wrath," but,~"_In_ his wrath." Now, if this
692  29     |           wrath were all there is [in man's damnation], and even
693  29     |            if it were~present only in the slightest degree conceivable -
694  29     |        prepared for those~who hope in him~240 - this would be
695  29     |      intermission of their misery. In the same way, the eternal
696  29     |           grades of rank and honor in which~they shine forth in
697  29     |          in which~they shine forth in their effulgent harmony.~
698  30     |        faith_, briefly ~summarized in the Creed (which is milk
699  30     |          with _hope_ are contained in the Lord's ~Prayer. For "
700  30     |     testified, "who rests his hope in~man."~242 Thus, he who rests
701  30     |        Thus, he who rests his hope in himself is bound by the
702  30     |                  115. Accordingly, in the Evangelist Matthew,
703  30     |            done on earth,~as it is in heaven"~243 - this last
704  30     |    interpreted by some as meaning "in body and~spirit" - these
705  30     |       retained forever. They begin in this life, of course; they
706  30     |         course; they are~increased in us as we make progress,
707  30     |           as we make progress, but in their perfection - which
708  30     |           which is to be hoped for in the~other life - they will
709  30     |         these pertain to our needs in the present life? In~that
710  30     |         needs in the present life? In~that life eternal - where
711  30     |         his Kingdom, and his~will, in our spirit and body will
712  30     |      perfectly and immortally. But in this life we ask for "daily~
713  30     |           because it is necessary, in the measure required by
714  30     |           whether we take the~term in a spiritual or bodily sense,
715  30     |           we wish to be freed. But in that other world none of
716  30     |      However, the Evangelist Luke, in his version of the Lord'
717  30     |      discrepancy here, but rather, in his brief way, the Evangelist~
718  30     |          name is even now~hallowed in the spirit, but the Kingdom
719  30     |      Kingdom of God is yet to come in the resurrection of the
720  30     |         However, what Matthew puts in the last place, "But deliver
721  30     |            evil," Luke leaves out, in~order that we might understand
722  30     |    understand that it was included in what was previously said
723  30     |          being delivered from evil in that he is not being led
724  31     |          the more richly it dwells in a man, the better the man
725  31     |            man, the better the man in whom it dwells. ~For when
726  31     |         who does not love believes in vain, even if what he believes
727  31     |         believes is true; he hopes in vain,~even if what he hopes
728  31     |        love. And what it yet lacks in love it asks that it may
729  31     |           whom love is shed abroad in our hearts - the law may
730  31     |                         118. When, in the deepest shadows of ignorance,
731  31     |          the law is that sin works in man the whole round of~concupiscence,
732  31     |        fulfilled: "The law entered in, that the offense might
733  31     |           so that he then believes in God's help in fulfilling
734  31     |        then believes in God's help in fulfilling His~commands,
735  31(252)|          arouse guilt feelings, as in Freud's notion of "superego."~
736  31     |            although there is still in man a power that~fights
737  31     |        faith and lives righteously in so far as he does not yield
738  31     |        good hope. A final peace is in store for~him who continues
739  31     |            continues to go forward in this course toward perfection
740  31     |         perfected beyond this life in the repose of the spirit,
741  31     |          spirit, and, at the last, in the resurrection of~the
742  31     |           grace, and the fourth is in full and perfect peace.
743  31     |            who "ordered~all things in measure and number and weight."~254
744  31     |          to be imparted, although, in conformity to the temporal
745  31     |                          119. Now, in whichever of these four "
746  31     |           the guilt he ~contracted in being born is removed by
747  32     |           whatever one does~either in fear of punishment or from
748  32     |           Holy Spirit sheds abroad in our hearts - whatever it
749  32     |           it may seem to be. Love, in this context, of course
750  32     |           our love of our neighbor in God [propter Deum]. This
751  32     |           Deum]. This applies~both in the present age and in the
752  32     |        both in the present age and in the world to come. Now we
753  32     |           to come. Now we love God in faith; then, at sight. For,~
754  32     |       illuminate the hidden things in the darkness and will make
755  32     |          will be praised and loved in a~neighbor by his neighbor
756  33     |         have judged that your zeal in Christ~ought not to be spurned