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1 1(4) | in the best MSS., adds, "As no one can exist from himself,
2 1(4) | wise in himself save only as he is enlightened by Him
3 1 | the man's service of God as the source of human wisdom.~
4 1 | not, recall your questions~as I discuss them.~
5 1 | 4. It is your desire, as you wrote, to have from
6 1 | a sort of enchiridion,~6 as it~might be called - something
7 1 | 5. But, as this faith, which works
8 1 | comprehensive of all explanations. As for~the certain and distinctive
9 1 | and to certain heretics as well. For if we think carefully
10 1 | would take so many volumes as to make it seem endless.~10~
11 1 | these three ways in which, as we said, God~should be served:
12 2 | Creed and the Lord's Prayer as Guides to the Interpretation
13 2 | some grammarians use this as an example of inaccurate
14 2 | may refer to evil things as well as to good, since we
15 2 | refer to evil things as well as to good, since we believe
16 2 | believe that he will come as our judge; this is future. ~
17 2 | persons - and about things as well - that at some time
18 2 | to use the term "faith,"~as we are taught in "the sacred
19 2 | to things not seen. And as for hope, the~apostle says: "
20 2 | this is the same thing as hoping for it.~What, then,
21 2 | hope without love. Indeed, as the apostle James says, "
22 2 | love. Instead, believing as we do that what we hope~
23 3(20) | would translate into Latin as De rerum natura. This is,
24 3(21) | everywhere in Augustine's thought as the very foundation of his
25 3 | thing is~good, and taken as a whole they are very good,
26 3 | the heathen~acknowledge as the Supreme Power over all,
27 3 | omnipotence and goodness, as the Supreme Good, he is
28 3 | bodily substance which, as a substance, is good. Evil,
29 4 | supremely and immutably good as is the Creator of it. Thus
30 4 | remain of its original nature as long as it exists at all.
31 4 | original nature as long as it exists at all. For no ~
32 4 | diminution of ~the good. As long, then, as a thing is
33 4 | the good. As long, then, as a thing is being corrupted,
34 4 | since every being, in so far as it is a being, is good,
35 4 | exists _in~itself_, but only as an evil aspect of some actual
36 4 | except something good. Absurd as this sounds, nevertheless
37 4 | argument compel us to it as inevitable. At the same
38 4 | a good entity in so far as~he is a man, evil in so
39 4 | is a man, evil in so far as he is wicked. Therefore,
40 4 | defective one,~in so far as it is an entity, is good.
41 4 | entity, is good. In so far as it is defective, it is evil.~
42 4 | the case, then, in so far as a thing is an entity, it
43 4 | mode of existence~except as an aspect of something that
44 4 | This cannot be, even as the Truth ~himself declareth: "
45 4 | spring up. Likewise, just as a bad~tree does not grow
46 5 | and other such things as this.~But we ought to know
47 5 | evil in things, at least as far as men may do so~in
48 5 | things, at least as far as men may do so~in this life,
49 5 | so~in this life, filled as it is with errors and distress,
50 5 | matters but in~small ones as well, it is impossible not
51 5 | not know,~if he approves as true what is actually false,
52 5 | complex issue, however, as when one man knows one thing
53 5 | for there is such a thing as a fortunate mistake which
54 5 | nothing~more than to judge as true what is in fact false,
55 5 | what is in fact false, and as false what is true. It means
56 5 | and naturally avoids error as much as it can, so that
57 5 | naturally avoids error as much as it can, so that even a~deceiver
58 6 | to lie.~34 Some~go so far as to contend that in cases
59 6 | the lie. He does~not sin as much who lies in the attempt
60 6 | the attempt to be helpful as the man who lies as a part
61 6 | helpful as the man who lies as a part of a deliberate~wickedness.
62 6 | traveler on the wrong road do as much harm as~one who, by
63 6 | wrong road do as much harm as~one who, by a deceitful
64 6 | he incautiously accepts as true what is false. On the
65 6 | that it is a falsehood. For as~far as his soul is concerned,
66 6 | a falsehood. For as~far as his soul is concerned, since
67 6 | lesser~evil than to lie, as far as a man's intentions
68 6 | evil than to lie, as far as a man's intentions are concerned.
69 6 | a man to be deceived so as~not to believe what would
70 6 | by crediting a falsehood as the truth in a matter where
71 6 | borne in faithful~patience - as for example, when someone
72 6 | good and evil, but only as to the secrets of human
73 6 | injury through an error, as I mentioned before happened
74 6 | bad to approve the false as though it were the truth,
75 6 | to ~disapprove the truth as though it were falsehood,
76 6 | to hold what is certain as if it were uncertain,~or
77 6 | uncertain,~or what is uncertain as if it were certain? It is
78 6 | actually turns out, such as being saved ~from the onslaught
79 7 | experience in the spirit (such as the illusion of the~apostle
80 7 | when two men look alike, as happens in the case of twins -
81 7 | in the error of affirming as true what may be false,
82 7 | false, since all~questions, as they assert, are either
83 7 | it is altogether certain as well. And there are many
84 7 | ought not to be regarded as a higher~wisdom but actually
85 7 | another, is not to be judged as a sin or, if~it is, as a
86 7 | judged as a sin or, if~it is, as a small and light one. In
87 7 | for the false, and hold as uncertain what is actually~
88 7 | he errs and is deceived, as a man may be. This is so~
89 7 | function, was developed not as a means whereby men could
90 7 | deceive one another, but~as a medium through which a
91 7 | order to deceive, and not as it was designed to be used,
92 7 | there is any such thing as a lie that is not a sin,
93 7 | also do this by stealing, as ~when a secret theft from
94 8 | of this kind of treatise, as to what we~need to know
95 8 | brought along with them, as their~companions, error
96 8 | is called fear. Moreover, as the soul's appetites are
97 8 | or~at least inane - and as it fails to recognize the
98 8 | man has a unique penalty as well: he is also punished
99 8 | threatened man with death as penalty if he should sin.
100 8 | himself, by his sinning. As a consequence of this, all
101 8 | same penalty is visited as for disobedience - all these~
102 8 | would simply cease to~exist. As for mankind, although born
103 8 | reformation in the case of men, as there is none for the wicked
104 9 | to a deserved punishment, as is the~human lot. Instead,
105 9 | although it had perished as a whole through sins and
106 9 | existence things which are not, as though they were,"~46 and "
107 9 | could a lost soul do except as he had been rescued from
108 9 | will at the same time. For as a man who kills~himself
109 9 | this one he then is bound as slave."~48 This is clearly
110 9 | can one have who is~bound as a slave except the liberty
111 9 | glory in his good works as if they were acts~of his
112 9 | themselves saving faith as their own work and not~understand
113 9 | work and not~understand it as a divine gift, the same
114 9 | formeth and createth us not as~men - this he hath already
115 9 | already done - but also as good men, which he is now
116 9 | This does not mean, as far as the natural human
117 9 | This does not mean, as far as the natural human heart
118 9 | determination of his~free will, as if some merit had originated
119 9 | originated from him and as if the freedom to do good
120 9 | had ~been bestowed on him as a kind of reward, let him
121 9 | prepared by the~Lord," even as it is ~written?~58 This
122 9 | of God's showing mercy," as if it meant, "The will of
123 9(59) | primary but also sufficient as the ground and source of
124 9(59) | little or nothing except as passive agent of God's will.
125 9 | God should go before them, as it goes before us; we pray
126 10 | nature children of wrath~even as the others."~67 Since men
127 10 | graver and more pernicious as they compounded more and
128 10 | such perturbation in him as~there is in the soul of
129 10 | takes the name "wrath"~as a term borrowed from the
130 10 | enemies into sons, "for as many as are led by the~Spirit
131 10 | into sons, "for as many as are led by the~Spirit of
132 10 | signifies the whole, just as it is said, "Since by the
133 10 | Accordingly, in so far as he is God, he and the Father
134 10 | Father are one. Yet in so far as he is man, the~Father is
135 10 | he~was in the one nature as well as in the other, one
136 10 | in the one nature as well as in the other, one Christ. "
137 10 | and both these in a unity as we said before. But he is
138 10 | other, because he was a man. As the Word, he is the equal
139 10 | the equal of the Father; as a man,~he is less. He is
140 11 | CHAPTER XI - The Incarnation as Prime Example of the Action
141 11 | singular grace~given him as to one particularly deserving
142 11 | assuredly remained God. Just as~every man is a personal
143 11 | beheld his glory, a glory as of the only Son of the Father,
144 11 | himself became the Son of~Man as well.~
145 11 | Do not fear to take Mary as your wife; for that which
146 12 | s human nature, so that as~God the Father generated
147 12 | one, Son of God the Father as the Word, Son of the Holy~
148 12 | Son of the Holy~Spirit as man? Do we suppose that
149 12 | hear it. Actually, then, as we confess our Lord Jesus
150 12 | is God from God~yet born as man of the Holy Spirit and
151 12 | were made. Yet in so far as he is man, he himself was
152 12 | he himself was made, even as~the apostle says: "He was
153 12 | is~the Holy Spirit named as the One who made it? Is
154 12 | Trinity is to be understood as involved ~in that action?
155 12 | explain. But there is no doubt as to the fact that he was
156 12 | he was not born~from him as Father as he was born of
157 12 | born~from him as Father as he was born of her as mother.~
158 12 | Father as he was born of her as mother.~
159 12 | destined _for_ it, just as the sons of the Kingdom~
160 12 | the Holy Spirit (yet not as a son), and of~the Virgin
161 12 | and of~the Virgin Mary as a son - this suggests to
162 13 | him."~83 He does not say, as we read in some defective
163 13 | no sin did sin for~us," as if Christ himself committed
164 13 | himself is therefore sin as we ourselves are righteousness -
165 13 | ourselves but in him. Just as he was sin - not his own
166 13 | grace die thereby to sin - as he himself is said to have
167 13 | the~baptismal font, just as he rose again from the sepulcher.
168 13 | number is often signified,~as the poet said, ~~"And they
169 13 | does not say "serpents," as it ~might, for they were
170 13 | use of the plural number, as we say when infants~are
171 13 | be healed by repentance - as, indeed, we see it happen
172 13 | in iniquity" or "in sin," as he might have quite correctly;
173 13 | iniquities"~and "sins," because, as I explained above, there
174 13 | there are other sins, such as those of parents,~which,
175 13 | parents, those who stand as one's forebears~from Adam
176 13 | the sins of the parents as far as - but no farther
177 13 | sins of the parents as far as - but no farther than -
178 13 | their eternal~damnation, as they would be if they were
179 13 | they were bound to bear, as original guilt, all the
180 14 | could be born in such a way as not to need to be~reborn.~
181 14 | is not with water alone, as John's was, but with the
182 14 | but with the Holy Spirit as well. Thus,~whoever believes
183 14 | in him to wash away, just as death~found nothing to punish.
184 14 | overcome and conquered: for, as he had most unjustly slain
185 14 | had justly held in bondage as~punishment for their sins.
186 14 | free act of showing mercy - as part of a definite plan~
187 14 | the sin of the world, just as one man had brought sin
188 14 | shortly after, "Therefore, as the offense of one man~led
189 14 | grace through the Other, as~he deemed sufficient for
190 14 | baptism into death; that,~as Christ was raised up from
191 14 | added, "Know you ~not, that as many of us as were baptized
192 14 | not, that as many of us as were baptized into Jesus
193 14 | he~concludes the passage as he began it. Indeed, he
194 14 | in which he existed, not as sinner,~but in "the likeness
195 14 | only adults but infants as well are~baptized - he says, "
196 14 | meanings but also serve as a~model for the Christian
197 14 | pertain to this life of ours as~we live it here on earth,
198 14 | righteous are to be judged as well as the unrighteous.
199 14 | are to be judged as well as the unrighteous. For sometimes~
200 14 | is passed upon the evil, as in the word, "But they who
201 14 | is passed upon the good,~as in the word, "Save me, O
202 14 | Judge me, O God," and, as if to explain what he had~
203 15 | also in the Holy Spirit, as ~completing the Trinity
204 15 | subordinate to the~Trinity, as a house is ~subordinate
205 15(110)| classical Latin form poscebat (as in Scheel and PL) for the
206 15(110)| for the late form poxebat (as in Riviere and many old
207 15 | and it gives help, even as it ought, to the other ~
208 15 | make one eternal consort, as even now they~are one in
209 15 | it wishes to be worshiped as God nor to be~God to anyone
210 15 | temple of God," and~then, as if to prove his point, added, "
211 15 | body - in which he standeth as Head of the Church on earth "
212 15 | of the supreme Trinity as a whole - is holy Church,
213 15 | spare ~the sinning angels" - as the apostle Peter writes - "
214 15 | general title "angels" - as we~read in the Epistle to
215 15 | there are archangels there as well? Again, should these
216 15 | would mean the~same thing as, "Praise him, all his angels;
217 15 | only visible, but tangible as well? And, again, how do
218 15 | something, not to the ears, as from outside us, but actually ~
219 15 | present within it too? For, as it is written in the book~
220 15 | communicate through~dreams, as we read in the Gospel: "
221 15 | To ask such questions as these, and to guess at the
222 15 | to guess at the answers as one can, is not a useless~
223 15 | in speculation, so long as the discussion is moderate
224 16 | Satan transforms himself as an~angel of light, lest
225 16 | will become known to us as it really is only when,
226 16 | the heavenly. ~Wherefore, as the same apostle says: "
227 16 | 63. This peace, as it is written,~"passes all ~
228 16 | This is the peace that, as it is said, "passes all
229 16 | angels,"~130 then, even as they do, "we shall see~face
230 16 | And we shall then have as great amity toward them
231 16 | great amity toward them as they have toward us;~for
232 16 | shall come to love them as much as we are loved by
233 16 | come to love them as much as we are loved by them.~In
234 16 | understanding and theirs as well. For, of course, in
235 16 | For, of course, in so far as a rational~creature is blessed,
236 17 | also takes away actual sins as well, whether of heart,~
237 17 | because the sons of God, as long as they live~this mortal
238 17 | the sons of God, as long as they live~this mortal life,
239 17 | is truly said of them, "As many as~are led by the Spirit
240 17 | truly said of them, "As many as~are led by the Spirit of
241 17 | sons of God,"~133 yet even as they are being led by~the
242 17 | by~the Spirit of God and, as sons of God, advance toward
243 17 | say that we have no sin,"~as the great apostle says, "
244 17 | committed of such gravity as also to~cut off the sinner
245 17 | consider the measure of time as much as~the measure of sorrow.
246 17 | measure of time as much as~the measure of sorrow. For, "
247 18(141)| quotes this entire chapter as a part of his answer to
248 18 | still be ~saved, "though as by fire." They believe that
249 18 | Catholics, are deceived, as it seems to me, by a kind~
250 18 | God's help, I~have shown as best I could that, according
251 18 | himself shall be saved, yet~so as by fire"~146 - then faith
252 18 | who persist in such crimes~as these are nevertheless saved
253 18 | that they will be saved as by fire, not perishing on~
254 18 | Christ still holds his place as foundation in the heart -
255 18 | Christ, he~does not have him as foundation - because he
256 18 | speaks, should be understood as one through which both~kinds
257 18 | himself shall be saved, yet so as by fire."~149 Therefore
258 18 | span of this life, just as the apostle said, as it
259 18 | just as the apostle said, as it affects the two different
260 18 | saved," indeed, "yet so as by fire." He "burns" with~
261 18 | nor consume him, secured as~he is by the stability and
262 18 | purgatorial fire, in proportion as they have loved the goods
263 19 | unspeakable crimes such as they~commit who "will not
264 19 | and alms should be~offered as propitiation to God for
265 19 | somehow to be bought off, as if we~always had a license
266 19 | condition of this is that just as they truly say, "Forgive
267 19 | so also they truly say, "As we forgive our~debtors"~156;
268 19 | trespasser also gives alms as well. He is also a~giver
269 19 | always to wish him well and, as you can, _do_ well to him
270 19 | for so great a multitude as we believe are heard~when,
271 19 | Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors."
272 19 | when he prays,~saying, "As we forgive our debtors."
273 19 | we ask for~forgiveness, as we also forgive our debtors
274 19 | should~no longer be regarded as an enemy, and it should
275 19 | and it should not now be as difficult to love him as
276 19 | as difficult to love him as it was~when he was actively
277 20 | context of it in the Gospel: "As he was~speaking, a certain
278 20 | if only they give alms, as they deem it right to give
279 20 | hearts by faith."~163 And as the~apostle said, "But to
280 20 | He who would give alms as a set plan of his life should
281 20 | Pharisees, while they gave as alms a tithing of even the
282 20 | shall love your neighbor as yourself."~168~Therefore,
283 20 | said, "give what remains as alms, and, behold, all things
284 20 | to you, Pharisees"~169 - as if to say, "I~am advising
285 20 | inward defilement, just as the bodies~which you wash
286 20 | inward" and~"outward" - as elsewhere we read, "Make
287 21 | tempting. Therefore one could, as I said, consider this not
288 21 | added, "But I say this as a concession, not as a rule."
289 21 | this as a concession, not as a rule." Who, then, denies
290 21 | even less than these, such as offenses in~words and thoughts -
291 21 | thoughts - and because, as the apostle James confesses, "
292 21 | follows this petition, "As we also forgive our debtors."~
293 21 | and~years and seasons - as those people do who will
294 21 | but were openly~committed, as if sanctioned by law. So
295 21 | not accustomed to them. As for those sins to which
296 22 | against both; but we shall as surely be defeated unless
297 22 | we ought to do, but also, as sound judgment increases,
298 22 | pardon if we have sinned, as we do when we say, "Forgive~
299 22 | say, "Forgive~us our debts as we also forgive our debtors."
300 22 | my ~salvation"~187; that, as Light, he may take away
301 22 | take away our ignorance, as Salvation, our weakness.~
302 22 | this difficult question, as clearly as I could, in a
303 22 | difficult question, as clearly as I could, in a little book ~
304 23 | have the slightest~doubt as to the fact that the bodies
305 23 | can agree that at least as much is true~of fetuses
306 23 | will become whole, just as ~what has been disfigured
307 23 | that they will be raised as they~were, but rather in
308 23 | and not~rather two men, as there would have been if
309 23 | way. Every soul will have, as its own, all that is required
310 23 | themselves), or has served as food for beasts or even
311 23 | part of the metal, so long as the statue, as restored,
312 23 | so long as the statue, as restored, had been given
313 23 | can create out of nothing as he wills.~But if in the
314 23 | intelligible inequality, such as~between voices that fill
315 23 | blemish and deformity, just as~they will be also free from
316 23 | facility [facilitas] will be~as complete as their felicity [
317 23 | facilitas] will be~as complete as their felicity [felicitas].
318 23 | and not spirits. For just as now the body is called "
319 23 | spirit.~Accordingly, then, as far as the corruption which
320 23 | Accordingly, then, as far as the corruption which weighs
321 23 | Kingdom of God," and~then, as if to expound what was said,
322 23 | called "incorruption."~But, as far as the substance of
323 23 | incorruption."~But, as far as the substance of the resurrection
324 23 | body [corpus animale] rises as a spiritual body~[corpus ~
325 23 | within ourselves. And just as there will be no more external
326 23 | have to bear with ourselves as enemies within.~
327 24 | although evil, in so far as it is evil, is not good,
328 24 | good things exist but evil as well. For if it were not
329 24 | for whom it is undoubtedly as easy not~to allow to exist
330 24 | exist what he does not will, as it is for him to do what
331 24 | baptism, when they resist as hard as they can, we would
332 24 | when they resist as hard as they can, we would then
333 24 | your children~together, as a hen gathers her chicks,
334 24 | would not."~204 This sounds as if God's will had~been overcome
335 24 | overcome by human wills and as if the weakest, by not willing,
336 25 | be so impiously foolish as to say that God cannot turn
337 25 | the evil~wills of men - as he willeth, when he willeth,
338 25 | difficulty to be solved. As it is, however, when he~
339 25(213)| for the doom of the wicked as to underscore the sheer
340 25 | hears this in such a way as to say: "Why then~does he
341 25 | resists his will?"~215 - as if to make it seem that
342 25 | ashamed to give the same reply as we see~the apostle giving: "
343 26 | Creator's will had been~done. As the Supreme Good, he made
344 26 | predestined to grace.~For, as far as they were concerned,
345 26 | predestined to grace.~For, as far as they were concerned, they
346 26 | not will that they do, but as far as~God's omnipotence
347 26 | that they do, but as far as~God's omnipotence is concerned,
348 26 | willeth with a good will - as, for example, a bad son
349 27 | have all men to be saved," as meaning that no man is saved
350 27 | is, to pray even for such as these [kings] - the apostle,
351 27 | other lands. Therefore, just as we should interpret "every
352 27 | it in any other fashion, as long as we are not compelled
353 27 | any other fashion, as long as we are not compelled to
354 27 | whatsoever he willed,"~228 as Truth sings of him, and
355 28 | to continue without sin, as he had been created to do.
356 28 | whatsoever to will it.~And, just as in our present state, our
357 28 | maintain justice, save as divine aid had been afforded
358 28 | the faith of Christ. Thus, as it is written, even the
359 28 | military service are paid as a just~debit, not as a gift.
360 28 | paid as a just~debit, not as a gift. Hence, he said "
361 29 | secret shelter for his soul, as each is worthy of rest or
362 29 | that is neither so good as not to~need such helps after
363 29 | helps after death nor so bad as not to gain benefit from
364 29 | non valde ~malis], and, as for the very bad - even
365 29 | Otherwise, it~can as well be thought that there
366 29 | of God must be understood as still resting on them. And
367 30 | For "cursed is everyone," as the divine eloquence testified, "
368 30 | well, or hope to obtain as reward for our good works.~
369 30 | Thy will be done on earth,~as it is in heaven"~243 - this
370 30 | wrongly interpreted by some as meaning "in body and~spirit" -
371 30 | they are~increased in us as we make progress, but in
372 30 | And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
373 30 | of, "_And_ deliver~us," as if to indicate that there
374 31(252)| to arouse guilt feelings, as in Freud's notion of "superego."~
375 31 | lives righteously in so far as he does not yield to evil
376 31 | successive temporal epochs, as it pleased God, who "ordered~
377 32 | it is, it is not yet~done as it should be, although it
378 32 | but are strongly advised as~good spiritual counsel (
379 32 | Moreover, passion decreases as love increases~266 until
380 33 | an Enchiridion, or use it as one. But since I have judged
381 33 | since I love you greatly as one of the members of his