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1 1 | should be wise - though not one of those of whom it
2 1 | disputant of this world? Hath not God made~foolish the wisdom
3 1(4) | A later interpolation, not found in the best MSS.,
4 1 | ask me to be brief, you do not expect me to speak of great
5 1 | few~sentences, do you? Is not this rather what you desire:
6 1 | can easily refer to it. If not, recall your questions~as
7 1 | physical senses, which we have not settled by our own~understanding,
8 1 | but the reality itself is not among them. To~make all
9 1 | you could carry around, not just baggage~for your bookshelf.
10 1 | have this wisdom, it is not enough~just to put an enchiridion
11 2 | invoke him~in whom they have not believed?"~13 Thus, we have
12 2 | invoke him in whom they have not ~believed?"~
13 2 | possible to hope for what we do not believe in? We can, of course,
14 2 | in~something that we do not hope for. Who among the
15 2 | among the faithful does not believe in the punishment~
16 2 | the impious? Yet he does not hope for it, and whoever
17 2 | poet, and a better one, did not put it rightly: ~"Here,
18 2 | evil. Yet faith is good, not evil. Moreover, faith refers
19 2 | to exist~and that he has not existed forever. Thus, not
20 2 | not existed forever. Thus, not only about men, but even
21 2 | common: they refer to what is not seen, whether this unseen
22 2 | the conviction of things not~seen."~16 However, when
23 2 | his faith, he still ought not to~be called absurd or told, "
24 2 | seen; therefore you have not believed." For it does not
25 2 | not believed." For it does not follow~that unless a thing
26 2 | follow~that unless a thing is not seen it cannot be believed.
27 2 | to refer to things not seen. And as for hope, the~
28 2 | says: "Hope that is seen is not hope. For if a man sees
29 2 | we hope for what we do not see, we then wait for it
30 2 | Thus it is that ~love is not without hope, hope is not
31 2 | not without hope, hope is not without love, and neither
32 3 | religion, the answer is~not to be sought in the exploration
33 3 | historical inquiry, have not yet learned everything there
34 3 | things created. But~they were not created supremely, equally,
35 3 | Supreme Power over all, would not allow any evil in his works,
36 3 | sickness and the wounds) do not retreat and go elsewhere. ~
37 3 | Rather, they simply do not exist any more. For such
38 3 | any more. For such evil is not a substance; the wound or
39 3 | cure takes place, they are not transferred~elsewhere but,
40 3(22) | good. It has its origin, not in nature, but in the will.
41 4 | supremely good. But~nature is not supremely and immutably
42 4 | incorruptible thing which could not be destroyed,~it would doubtless
43 4 | even if the corruption is not arrested, it still does
44 4 | arrested, it still does not cease having some good of
45 4 | consumed by~corruption, not even the ~corruption remains,
46 4 | find that the bad man is not bad~because he is a man,
47 4 | maintains that good and~evil are not contraries, they can not
48 4 | not contraries, they can not only coexist, but the evil
49 4 | good, or in a thing that is not a good. On the other hand,
50 4 | angel could exist and yet not be wicked, whereas there
51 4 | then the evil~simply could not be, since it can have no
52 4 | something good, they~are not anything at all. There is
53 4 | its source in the good, do not suppose that this denies
54 4 | himself declareth: "Men do not gather grapes from thorns,"
55 4 | just as a bad~tree does not grow good fruit, so also
56 4 | so also an evil will does not produce good deeds. From
57 5 | things,"~28 ~it still does not follow that our felicity
58 5 | felicity wherein misery does not distract, nor error mislead.
59 5 | error wherever possible, not only in great matters but
60 5 | as well, it is impossible not to be ignorant of many things.
61 5 | many things. Yet it does not follow that~one falls into
62 5 | thinks he knows what he does not know,~if he approves as
63 5 | in this latter case would not prefer ignorance? There
64 5 | all, ~that it is better not to know than to know. Likewise,
65 5 | error - but on a~journey, not in morals.~30 This sort
66 5 | at ~a crossroads and did not go by the place where an
67 5 | fortunate mistake which not only does no harm but actually
68 5 | that sometimes if they are not to be entirely lost, error
69 5 | the liar thinks he does not~deceive himself and that
70 5 | believe him. Indeed, he does not err in his~lying, if he
71 6 | topic of the lie. He does~not sin as much who lies in
72 6 | since in his case he does not ~deceive but rather is deceived.
73 6 | deceived. Likewise, a man is not a liar, though he could
74 6 | concerned, since he did not say what he believed, he
75 6 | what he believed, he did not tell the truth, ~even though
76 6 | intention is to lie. If we do~not consider the things spoken
77 6 | For the first~man does not have one intention in his
78 6 | should lie about things not connected with religion
79 6 | future period - would it not be~incomparably better to
80 6 | the second? And would it not be~a lesser evil to lead
81 6 | man to be deceived so as~not to believe what would lead
82 6 | harm at his hand. He is not badly deceived nor would
83 6 | in which men are evil and not to the men themselves. Hence,
84 6 | supposing him to be chaste and not knowing that he is an adulterer,
85 6 | adulterer, such a man is not ~deceived in his doctrine
86 6 | that he is an adulterer and not chaste. In similar fashion,
87 6 | some benefit thereby,~I am not saying that error is not
88 6 | not saying that error is not a bad thing, nor that it
89 6 | only of ~the evil which did not happen or the good which
90 6 | through the error, which was not~caused by the error itself
91 6 | It is quite another thing not to suffer harm from something
92 6 | the right one when it is not. It is quite another thing
93 7 | 20. I do not rightly know whether errors
94 7 | thinks~well of a wicked man, not knowing what his character
95 7 | parents"~37 - I say I do not know whether these and other
96 7 | profess themselves ignorant not only about the eternity
97 7 | even argue that they do not know~what they cannot help
98 7 | knowing. For no one can "not know" that he himself is
99 7 | himself is alive. If he is not~alive, he cannot "not know"
100 7 | is not~alive, he cannot "not know" about it or anything
101 7 | because either to know or to "not ~know" implies a living
102 7 | But, in such a case, by not positively affirming that
103 7 | alive; one cannot err who is not alive. That we live is therefore
104 7 | That we live is therefore not only~true, but it is altogether
105 7 | positive assent, this ought not to be regarded as a higher~
106 7 | In those things which do not concern our attainment of
107 7 | Kingdom of God, it does not~matter whether they are
108 7 | they are believed in or not, or whether they are true
109 7 | one thing for another, is not to be judged as a sin or,
110 7 | miscues may~be, it does not involve the way that leads
111 7 | love. This way of life was not abandoned in that error
112 7 | else. In his case, he did not discover the actual situation~
113 7 | mistakes, even if they are~not sins, must still be listed
114 7 | even if these mistakes do not affect that faith by which
115 7 | beatitude, yet they are not unrelated to the misery
116 7 | speak what is in his heart - not only when he~himself knows
117 7 | supposed to be true when it is not. But a man who lies says
118 7 | function, was developed not as a means whereby men could
119 7 | in order to deceive, and not as it was designed to be
120 7 | such thing as a lie that is not a sin, just because we~suppose
121 7 | from a rich man who does not feel the loss is openly
122 7 | say that such a theft was not a sin. Or again, we~could
123 7 | dying for love if we would~not consent to her desire and
124 7 | that although chastity must not be violated by adultery,
125 7 | the good, when they will not lie save for the sake of
126 7 | sake of human values, is not to be denied. ~But what
127 7 | is their good will~and not their deceit. The deceit
128 7 | pardoned, but certainly ought not to be praised,~especially
129 8 | without anxiety -~we ought not to doubt in any way that
130 8 | in its evil state, could not lose its appetite for blessedness.
131 8 | Creator's goodness does not cease to sustain life and~
132 8 | bring good out of evil than not to permit any evil to exist.
133 8 | wicked angels, would it not have~been just if the nature
134 8 | of God's law~- would it not have been just if such a
135 8 | if he were only just and not also merciful and if he
136 8 | also merciful and if he had not willed to show far more
137 9 | these faithful angels were not descended~from a single
138 9 | Hence, the original evil did not bind them in the fetters~
139 9 | received what the others had not had - a sure knowledge of
140 9 | multitude of the angels had not perished in this desertion
141 9 | commonwealth of God, shall not be~defrauded of her full
142 9 | existence things which are not, as though they were,"~46
143 9 | their own works? Of course not! ~For what good works could
144 9 | his free will? Of course not! For it was in the evil
145 9 | But thereafter he will not be free~to do right unless
146 9 | his free will, when he is not yet free to act rightly?
147 9 | faith as their own work and not~understand it as a divine
148 9 | additional comment: "And this is not of~yourselves, rather it
149 9 | rather it is a gift of God - not because of works either,
150 9 | formeth and createth us not as~men - this he hath already
151 9 | heart, O God."~55 This does not mean, as far as the natural
152 9 | concerned,~that God hath not already created this.~
153 9 | again, lest anyone glory, if not in his own works, at least
154 9 | in another place: "It is not therefore a matter of man'
155 9 | sense, therefore, is it "not a matter of human ~willing
156 9 | therefore, that "it is not a matter of human willing
157 9 | accept the dictum, "It is not a matter of human willing
158 9 | meant, "The will of man is not sufficient by itself~unless
159 9 | token, the mercy of God is not sufficient by~itself unless
160 9 | say rightly that "it is not a matter of human ~willing
161 9 | the will of man alone is not enough,~why, then, is not
162 9 | not enough,~why, then, is not the contrary rightly said, "
163 9 | contrary rightly said, "It is not a matter of God's showing
164 9 | of God by itself alone is not enough? Now, actually, no
165 9 | would dare to say, "It is not a matter of God's showing
166 9 | therefore, that this saying: "Not man's~willing or running
167 9 | other gifts from God, but not all of them. One of~the
168 9 | One of~the gifts it does not antedate is - just itself!
169 9(59) | first is that God's grace is not only primary but also sufficient
170 9(59) | detractors from grace, he did not hesitate to insist that
171 9(59) | everywhere roundly rejects the not illogical corollary of his
172 9 | enemies,~62 who are plainly not now willing~to live piously,
173 10 | everlasting, but he that believes not does not have life. Instead,
174 10 | he that believes not does not have life. Instead, the
175 10 | abides in him."~66 He does not say, "It will come," but, "
176 10 | to be wrathful, this does not signify any such perturbation
177 10 | assumed by the Divinity, not the~Divinity being changed
178 10 | bonds of all sin. It was not a nature born of both~sexes
179 10 | by His mother's faith and not her fleshly desires. Now
180 10 | been~destroyed, he would not then have been born of a
181 10 | he was God's only Son - not by grace but by nature -
182 10 | form of God, he ~judged it not a violation to be what he
183 10 | time God's Son. These are not two sons of God, one God
184 11 | deserving before God? Of course not! For, from the moment he~
185 11 | begotten Son - and, again, this not by grace but by nature -
186 11 | Holy Spirit is God also, not inferior to the Father and
187 11 | adultery (since he knew she was not pregnant by him), he received
188 11 | answer~from the angel: "Do not fear to take Mary as your
189 12 | if the Holy Spirit did not beget~him? Is it because
190 12 | works of the Trinity are not separable - why is~the Holy
191 12 | examples, but we should not dwell too long on~this kind
192 12 | fecit] this world, one could not~say that the world is the
193 12 | the sense in which he~is not the Son of the Holy Spirit
194 12 | to the fact that he was not born~from him as Father
195 12 | Consequently we should not grant that whatever is born
196 12 | of the Holy Spirit would not properly be called sons
197 12 | the son of God the Father, not of the Holy~Spirit.~What
198 12 | that it reminds us~that not everything which is "born"
199 12 | born." Likewise, it does not follow that those who are
200 12 | called "sons ~of Gehenna" are not born _of_ it, but have been
201 12 | of something else, yet not in the fashion of a~"son,"
202 12 | and conversely, since not everyone who is called son
203 12 | of the Holy Spirit (yet not as a son), and of~the Virgin
204 13 | Word of the~Father, a Son not by grace but by nature.
205 13 | God in ~him."~83 He does not say, as we read in some
206 13 | ourselves are righteousness - not our own but God's, not in~
207 13 | not our own but God's, not in~ourselves but in him.
208 13 | him. Just as he was sin - not his own but ours, rooted
209 13 | his own but ours, rooted not in himself but in us -~so
210 13 | crucified, that since sin~was not in him he could then, so
211 13 | there is no one who does not die to sin in baptism. Infants
212 13 | when without doubt they die not to one~but to many sins,
213 13 | the serpent."~85 It does not say "serpents," as it ~might,
214 13 | child's ~life"~86; it does not say, "He is dead." And in
215 13 | sacrilege too, for man did not~acknowledge God; and murder,
216 13 | 46. It is also said - and not without support - that infants
217 13 | the sins of their~parents, not only of the first pair,
218 13 | said that the sons should not bear their fathers' sins,
219 13 | birth~[regeneratio] would not have been instituted except
220 13 | because in his mercy he will not continue his wrath beyond
221 13 | wrath beyond that. It is not his purpose that those~not
222 13 | not his purpose that those~not given the grace of regeneration
223 13 | a problem might or might not be found by a more diligent ~
224 13 | of Holy Scripture, I dare not rashly affirm.~~
225 14 | be born in such a way as not to need to be~reborn.~
226 14 | 49. They were not reborn, those who were baptized
227 14 | reborn.~For his baptism is not with water alone, as John'
228 14 | also was born, needing ~not to be reborn. This is the
229 14 | thee,"~95 which pointed not to that particular day on
230 14 | baptized in water by John, not thereby to wash away any
231 14 | in authentic justice, and not by violent power, that the~
232 14 | both baptism and death, not out of ~a piteous necessity
233 14 | whereas this~One took away not only that one sin but also
234 14 | And the gift [of grace] is not like the effect of the one
235 14 | are dead to sin, "Do~you not know that all we who were
236 14 | that henceforth we should not serve~sin. For he that is
237 14 | to prove that we should not go on sinning, in~order
238 14 | he had added, "Know you ~not, that as many of us as were
239 14 | flesh in which he existed, not as sinner,~but in "the likeness
240 14 | death of Christ - into which not only adults but infants
241 14 | done thus, that they might not only signify their mystical
242 14 | affection on things above, not on things on the earth.
243 14 | living and the dead, does not pertain to this life of
244 14 | earth, because it belongs not to his deeds already done,
245 14 | the living" those who are not yet dead but who will be
246 14 | being freed from evil and not destroyed with the evildoers,
247 15 | understand the whole Church, not just the part that journeys
248 15 | Spirit were creature and not~Creator, he would obviously
249 15 | But in this case he would not be set in the rule of faith _
250 15 | which is in heaven. He would not have ~a temple, for he himself
251 15 | apostle~speaks, "Know you not that your body is the temple
252 15 | of this body, "Know you not that your bodies~are members
253 15 | Christ?"~115 How, then, is he not God who has a temple? Or
254 15 | members are his temple? It is not that he has one temple and
255 15 | apostle says: "Know you not that you are the temple
256 15 | dwelleth in his temple, not the Holy Spirit only, but
257 15 | that time when "God did not spare ~the sinning angels" -
258 15 | ignorance of such matters. I am not even certain~about another
259 15 | to men, so~that they were not only visible, but tangible
260 15 | And, again, how do they, not by impact of ~physical stimulus
261 15 | bring certain visions, not to the physical eyes but
262 15 | mind, or speak something, not to the ears, as from outside
263 15 | to me . . ."~122 He does not say, "Spoke ~_to_ me" but "
264 15 | to indicate that they do~not have tangible bodies. Yet
265 15 | the answers as one can, is not a useless~exercise in speculation,
266 15 | think they know what they do not know.~~
267 16 | corporeal senses, and does not thereby turn the mind from
268 16 | required to recognize him and not follow after. But how few
269 16 | against us? He that spared ~not his own Son, but delivered
270 16 | Now Christ did not die for the~angels. But
271 16 | means~_our_ understanding, not that of those who always
272 16 | this blessedness comes, not from himself, but from God.
273 16 | that from the word "all" not even the understanding of
274 16 | of course, his peace does not surpass his own~understanding.~~
275 17 | and is found again"~132 is not lost again. Of course, the
276 17 | progress in righteousness), is not without the~need for the
277 17 | Although~every crime is a sin, not every sin is a crime. Thus
278 17 | ourselves, and the truth is not in us."~134~
279 17 | body of Christ, we should not consider the measure of
280 17 | and humbled heart God will not despise."~136~Still, since
281 17 | hid from another, and does not come to notice~through words
282 17 | is said, "My ~groaning is not hid from thee"~137 - times
283 17 | course, outside her they are not forgiven. For she alone
284 17 | reserved for the future. It is not in vain that the day when
285 17 | sins are blotted out and not reserved to the end,~says: "
286 17 | ourselves truly we should not be judged by the Lord. But
287 17 | by the Lord, that we may not be condemned along with
288 18 | believe that those who do not abandon the name of Christ,~
289 18 | laver in the Church, who are not cut off from it by schism
290 18 | live in sins however great, not washing them away by repentance,
291 18 | to their sins, but still not eternal.~But those who believe
292 18 | if faith~works evil and not good, then without doubt,
293 18 | says he has faith, yet has not works, can his faith~be
294 18 | same Paul himself: "Do not err," he says; "neither
295 18 | faith in Christ, would they not then be in the Kingdom of ~
296 18 | foundation, which is Christ, not gold, silver,~and precious
297 18 | will be saved as by fire, not perishing on~account of
298 18 | interpreted so ~that it does not contradict these fully plain
299 18 | than to Christ, he~does not have him as foundation -
300 18 | fire will test~the work, not only of the one, but of
301 18 | The work of the former is not~burned up, since he has
302 18 | burned up, since he has not loved those things whose
303 18 | burned up, since things are not lost without anguish when
304 18 | losing Christ, and does not desert Christ from fear
305 18 | and lost, but this does not subvert nor consume him,
306 18 | 69. It is not incredible that~something
307 18 | after this life, whether or not it is a matter for fruitful
308 18 | them. However, this does not apply to those of whom it
309 18 | it was~said, "They shall not possess the Kingdom of God,"~152
310 18 | to signify that they must not be barren of~almsgiving,
311 19 | as they~commit who "will not possess the Kingdom of God"
312 19 | our past sins. But he is not somehow to be bought off,
313 19 | satisfaction~for them is not neglected.~
314 19 | acts of mercy. Therefore, not only the man who gives food
315 19 | needful for the needy~158 - not only does this~man give
316 19 | Such a man gives alms, not only in that he forgives
317 19 | when their interests and not their~preferences are consulted.
318 19 | when a Christian ought not to return evil even for
319 19 | a degree of goodness is not possible for so great a
320 19 | are fulfilled if a man, not yet so perfect that he~already
321 19 | an enemy, and it should not now be as difficult to love
322 19 | hostile.~Now, a man who does not forgive from the heart one
323 19 | reader of the gospel has not noted who it was who said, "
324 19 | trespasses. But if you will not forgive men,~neither will
325 19 | offenses."~161 He who is not awakened by such great~thundering
326 19 | such great~thundering is not asleep, but dead. And yet
327 20 | are clean to you."~They do not understand how far this
328 20 | and ask himself why He had not washed himself before~dinner.
329 20 | wickedness. Foolish ones! Did not He who made~the outside
330 20 | to the Pharisees, who had not the faith of Christ, all
331 20 | them, even if they have not believed~in him, nor been
332 20 | all are unclean who are not made clean ~by the faith
333 20 | they gave alms, but were not believers? Or, how could
334 20 | God." Therefore, they did not begin their almsgiving with ~
335 20 | to show them that he was not~ignorant of their kind of
336 20 | alms of yours and you need not~think I am admonishing you
337 20 | judgment and love of God - and~"not omit the others" - that
338 20 | 77. Therefore, let them not~deceive themselves who suppose
339 20 | of their wickedness. For not only do they do such things,
340 20 | who hates his own~soul is not merciful but cruel to it.
341 20 | store of Him who ~needs not anything. "Accordingly,"
342 21 | what are grave, however, is not for human but for divine~
343 21 | says to married~folks: "Do not deprive one another, except
344 21 | could~consider that it is not a sin for a married couple
345 21 | couple to have intercourse, not only for the sake of ~procreating
346 21 | as I said, consider this not a sin, had the apostle not ~
347 21 | not a sin, had the apostle not ~added, "But I say this
348 21 | say this as a concession, not as a rule." Who, then, denies
349 21 | before the unrighteous and not the saints?"~174 And a bit
350 21 | Can it be that there is not a wise man ~among you, who
351 21 | might be thought that it was not a sin to bring suit against
352 21 | Church, if the apostle had~not added immediately, "Now
353 21 | excuses by saying: "Why not rather suffer iniquity?
354 21 | rather suffer iniquity? Why not ~rather be defrauded?"~177
355 21 | away your goods, seek them not back."~179 Thus, he forbids
356 21 | Forgive us our debts,"~and not lie about what follows this
357 21 | trifling if the Scriptures did not~show that they are more
358 21 | hell-fire," if the Truth had not said it? Still, for the
359 21 | people do who will or will not begin projects on certain
360 21 | lucky or unlucky - if we did not infer the magnitude of this
361 21 | this go that such sins~are not only not kept secret, but
362 21 | that such sins~are not only not kept secret, but are even
363 21 | justice, yet he ~did iniquity; not justice but a cry."~184
364 21 | people such crimes were not only unpunished, but were
365 21 | times so many evils, even if not like those ~[of old], have
366 21 | be public customs that we not only do not dare excommunicate
367 21 | customs that we not only do not dare excommunicate a layman;~
368 21 | excommunicate a layman;~we do not dare degrade a clergyman
369 21 | from them~only when we are not accustomed to them. As for
370 21 | grant, O Lord, that we~do not practice any of them which
371 22 | two causes: either from not seeing what we ought to
372 22 | ought to do, or else~from not doing what we have already
373 22 | we are divinely~helped, not only to see what we ought
374 22 | this latter ~case, we are not only sinners - which we
375 22 | also~lawbreakers: for we do not do what we should, and we
376 22 | we know already we should not.~Accordingly, we should
377 22 | do when we say, "Lead us not into ~temptation" - and
378 22 | in penitence. Wherefore, not only for one to repent,
379 22 | Otherwise, the apostle would not say~of some men, "In case
380 22 | 83. But the man who does not believe that sins are forgiven
381 23 | body - and by this I do not mean the cases~of resuscitation
382 23 | Christ's own body - I have not found a way to discuss it
383 23 | undeveloped fetuses, who would not more~readily think that
384 23 | perish, like seeds that did not germinate?~192~But who,
385 23 | to deny - though he would not dare to affirm it either -
386 23 | would have accomplished will not be lacking, any more than
387 23 | has wrought. But what is not yet a whole will become
388 23 | learned men, and still I do not know that~any man can answer
389 23 | some form of hidden life, not yet apparent in the motions
390 23 | basis on which he~would not have a share in the resurrection
391 23 | token, the resurrection is not to be denied in the cases
392 23 | will be one double man, and not~rather two men, as there
393 23 | will have its own body and not two bodies joined together,
394 23 | mortal man is~produced does not perish. Instead, whether
395 23 | the soul's departure will not, at the~resurrection, be
396 23 | the unfitting will simply not be.~
397 23 | they will be bodies and not spirits. For just as now
398 23 | though it is a body and not a "spirit" [anima], so then
399 23 | body," but~still a body and not a spirit.~Accordingly, then,
400 23 | Flesh and blood shall not inherit the Kingdom of God,"
401 23 | 92. But whoever are not liberated from that mass
402 23 | bodily form and beauty need not weary us, since their damnation
403 23 | and~eternal. And let us not be moved to inquire how
404 23 | where an~unhappy being is not allowed to die, then death
405 23 | itself, so to say, dies not; and where pain~perpetually
406 23 | second death, in which it is not allowed to leave the body
407 24 | what is now hidden will not be hidden: when one of two
408 24 | again, why were miracles not~wrought in the presence
409 24 | presence of those who were not about to believe. ~For our
410 24 | Now, obviously, God did not act unjustly in not willing
411 24 | did not act unjustly in not willing their~salvation,
412 24 | the pious hold by faith, not yet grasping it in~clear ~
413 24 | things he~can do but doth not will to do, yet willeth
414 24(201)| additional MS. evidence that had not been available up to that
415 24 | This obviously is not true, if there is anything
416 24 | he willed to~do and did not do, or, what were worse,
417 24 | what were worse, if he did not do something because man'
418 24 | so far as it is evil, is not good, still it is a good
419 24 | it is a good thing that not only~good things exist but
420 24 | as well. For if it were not good that evil things exist,
421 24 | exist, they would~certainly not be allowed to exist by the
422 24 | it is undoubtedly as easy not~to allow to exist what he
423 24 | allow to exist what he does not will, as it is for him to
424 24 | of his~omnipotent will is not impeded by the will of any
425 24 | be saved."~203 For since not all - ~not even a majority - _
426 24 | For since not all - ~not even a majority - _are_
427 24 | God willeth to~happen does not happen is due to an embargo
428 24 | we ask for the reason why not all are saved, the customary
429 24 | Because~they themselves have not willed it." But this cannot
430 24 | said of infants, who have not yet come to~the power of
431 24 | the power of willing or not willing. For, if we could
432 24 | her chicks, and you would not."~204 This sounds as if
433 24 | and as if the weakest, by not willing, impeded the Most
434 24 | Powerful~so that he could not do what he willed. And where
435 24 | Jerusalem~together, and did not do so? Or, is it not rather
436 24 | did not do so? Or, is it not rather the case that, although
437 24 | although Jerusalem did not will~that her children be
438 24 | hers whom he would? It is not that "in heaven and on earth"
439 24 | willed other things and not done them. Instead, "all
440 25 | through mercy; when he doth not act, it is through justice.
441 25 | of God might continue - not~through works but through
442 25 | whose understanding could not penetrate to this depth
443 25 | would never have ~said "not of good works" but rather "
444 25 | says, "Therefore, it is not a question of him who wills
445 25 | children of wrath,"~211 not because of any works of~
446 25 | that the fact that he had not,~with equal merit, incurred
447 25 | divine grace, because "it is not a~question of him who wills
448 25 | for where his mercy is not shown, it is not unfairness
449 25 | mercy is not shown, it is not unfairness but~justice.
450 25 | it seem that man should not~therefore be blamed for
451 25 | made me like this?' Or is not the potter master of his
452 25 | explanation.~For if one does not understand these matters,
453 25 | divine judgment so just that~not even if a single member
454 25 | greater number of those not saved but simply abandoned
455 25 | would have brought them, had not his undeserved mercy interposed.
456 26 | creation sinned (that is, did not ~do what he willed, but
457 26 | concerned, they did what God did not will that they do, but as
458 26 | done against his will is not done without his will. ~
459 26 | his will. ~For it would not be done without his allowing
460 26 | surely his permission is not unwilling but~willing -
461 26 | something that God doth not will, even~though God's
462 26 | former wills what God doth not will, whereas the latter~
463 26 | the one, though he wills not what God willeth, is~more
464 26 | purpose of his he achieved, not through the good will of
465 26 | were more fully his who did not will~what he willed than
466 26 | obviously what is just is not evil. Therefore, whether
467 27 | we know well enough that not all men are saved, we are
468 27 | all men are saved, we are not on~that account to underrate
469 27 | God~willeth his salvation: not that there is no man whose
470 27 | whose salvation he doth not will, but that no one is~
471 27 | all men to be saved," does not mean~that there is no one
472 27 | whose salvation he doth not will - he who was unwilling
473 27 | which of these groups doth not~God will that some men from
474 27 | Obviously, the Pharisees did not tithe what belonged to others,
475 27 | fashion, as long as we are not compelled to believe that
476 27 | anything to be done which was not done. "He hath done all
477 27 | him, and surely he hath not~willed to do anything that
478 27 | do anything that he hath not done. There must be no equivocation
479 28 | intervention of death - where he not only would have~been unable
480 28 | unable to sin, but would not have had even the will to
481 28 | will~both good and evil - not without reward, if he willed
482 28 | if he willed the good; not without punishment, if ~
483 28 | the future life he will not have the power to will evil;
484 28 | evil; and yet this will~not thereby restrict his free
485 28 | sin. For we surely ought not to find fault with such
486 28 | is~no will, or that it is not rightly called free, when
487 28 | desire happiness that we not only are~unwilling to be
488 28 | course of God's plan was not to be ~passed by, wherein
489 28 | creature is that is able not to sin,~although one unable
490 28 | which man was capable of not dying, even if the higher
491 28(229)| included both the power not to sin and the power to
492 28(229)| posse non peccare (the power not to sin) and retained the
493 28(229)| highest of all, the power not to be able to sin, non posse
494 28 | through merit, if it had~not sinned. Not even then, however,
495 28 | merit, if it had~not sinned. Not even then, however, could
496 28 | alone, still free will would not have been sufficient to ~
497 28 | there is no one who could not kill himself by not eating (
498 28 | could not kill himself by not eating (not to mention other
499 28 | kill himself by not eating (not to mention other means).
500 28 | means). But~the bare will is not sufficient for maintaining