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1 1 | of this world? Hath not God made~foolish the wisdom
2 1(4) | written, 'All wisdom is from God' [Ecclus. 1:1]."~
3 1 | literally, "the service of God." The Greek has~still another
4 1 | chiefly to the service of God. But no term is better than
5 1 | of the man's service of God as the source of human wisdom.~
6 1 | of worshipping [serving] God? ~
7 1 | 3. If I should answer, "God should be worshipped in
8 1 | ways in which, as we said, God~should be served: faith,
9 2 | preaching of the time~of God's grace, said, "And it shall
10 3 | CHAPTER III - God the Creator of All; and
11 3 | is the one and the true God.~21 Further, the Christian
12 3 | that nothing exists save God~himself and what comes from
13 3 | him; and he believes that God is triune, i.e., the Father,
14 3 | things. For the Omnipotent God, whom even the heathen~acknowledge
15 3(22) | Tractate XCVIII, 7; City of God, XI, 17; XII, 7-9.~
16 4 | amounts to finding fault with God's work,~because man is an
17 4 | because man is an entity of God's creation. It also means
18 5 | erred and gave thanks to God for our error. ~Who would
19 6 | concerning the worship of God or even the nature of God,
20 6 | God or even the nature of God, it~is sometimes a good
21 6 | to the proper service of God. To illustrate what I mean
22 7(38) | X, 19; see also City of God, XI, xxvii.~
23 7 | attainment of the Kingdom of God, it does not~matter whether
24 7 | involve the way that leads to God, which is the faith of Christ
25 7 | kind, with our faith in God still safe,~nor do we thus
26 8 | the bountiful goodness of God himself. The cause of evil
27 8 | common, for whose wickedness God hath ~condemned them in
28 8 | by~the death of the body. God had indeed threatened man
29 8 | Certainly the anger of God rests, in full justice,
30 8 | bodily nourishment. For God judged it better to~bring
31 8 | the nature that deserted God and, through the evil use
32 8 | wholesome discipline of God's law~- would it not have
33 8 | being had been abandoned by God wholly and forever~and laid
34 8 | which he deserved? Clearly God would have done this~if
35 9 | some of the angels deserted God in impious pride and were
36 9 | bliss and holiness with God. For these faithful angels
37 9 | 29. Thus it pleased God, Creator and Governor of
38 9 | both original and personal, God had determined that a portion
39 9 | be equal to the angels of God.~45~Thus the heavenly Jerusalem,
40 9 | and the commonwealth of God, shall not be~defrauded
41 9 | of the human race to whom God hath promised deliverance
42 9 | rather it is a gift of God - not because of works either,
43 9 | Jesus to good works, which God hath~prepared beforehand
44 9 | are then truly free when God ordereth our lives, that
45 9 | Create in me~a clean heart, O God."~55 This does not mean,
46 9 | heart is concerned,~that God hath not already created
47 9 | announcing:~"For it is God who is at work in you both
48 9 | or of his running, but of God's~showing mercy."~57 Still,
49 9 | prize of his high calling~in God without a decision of his
50 9 | willing or running but of God's showing mercy," unless
51 9 | willing or running but of~God's showing mercy," means
52 9 | man~and from the mercy of God. Thus we accept the dictum, "
53 9 | willing or~running but of God's showing mercy," as if
54 9 | there is also the mercy of God." By the same token, the
55 9 | same token, the mercy of God is not sufficient by~itself
56 9 | willing or running but of God's showing mercy," because
57 9 | It is not a matter of God's showing mercy but of a~
58 9 | willing," since the mercy of God by itself alone is not enough?
59 9 | It is not a matter of God's showing mercy but of man'
60 9 | s~willing or running but God's showing mercy," is to
61 9 | whole process~is credited to God, who both prepareth the
62 9 | before many other gifts from God, but not all of them. One
63 9(59) | mystery of the primacy of God's grace and the reality
64 9(59) | confusion. The first is that God's grace is not only primary
65 9(59) | except as passive agent of God's will. He insists on responsibility
66 9 | piously, unless it be that God is even now at work in them
67 9 | therefore, that~the mercy of God should go before them, as
68 10 | life. Instead, the wrath of God~abides in him."~66 He does
69 10 | enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son,~
70 10 | him."~68 ~However, when God is said to be wrathful,
71 10 | This, then, is the grace of God through~Jesus Christ our
72 10 | that we are reconciled to God through the Mediator and
73 10 | are led by the~Spirit of God, they are the sons of God."~69~
74 10 | God, they are the sons of God."~69~
75 10 | believe~in "the only Son of God the Father Almighty, born
76 10 | 35. Christ Jesus, Son of God, is thus both God and man.
77 10 | Son of God, is thus both God and man. He was God before
78 10 | both God and man. He was God before all ages; he is~man
79 10 | this age of ours. He is God because he is the Word of
80 10 | because he is the Word of God, for "the Word was God."~73 ~
81 10 | of God, for "the Word was God."~73 ~Yet he is man also,
82 10 | Accordingly, in so far as he is God, he and the Father are one.
83 10 | greater than he. Since he was God's only Son - not by grace
84 10 | For being in the form of God, he ~judged it not a violation
85 10 | by nature, the equal of God. Yet he emptied himself,~
86 10 | diminishing the form of God.~75 Thus he was made less
87 10 | less. He is the one Son of God, and at the same time Son
88 10 | Man, and ~at the same time God's Son. These are not two
89 10 | These are not two sons of God, one God and the other man,
90 10 | not two sons of God, one God and the other man, but~_
91 10 | other man, but~_one_ Son of God - God without origin, man
92 10 | but~_one_ Son of God - God without origin, man with
93 11 | Example of the Action of God's Grace~~
94 11 | 36. In this the grace of God is supremely manifest, commended
95 11 | Person of the only Son of God? What good will, what zealous~
96 11 | to~become one Person with God? Was he a man before the
97 11 | particularly deserving before God? Of course not! For, from
98 11 | to be nothing other than God's Son, the only Son, and
99 11 | this~because the Word of God assuming him became flesh,
100 11 | still assuredly remained God. Just as~every man is a
101 11 | a clear manifestation of God's great and sole grace,
102 11 | You have found favor with God."~76 And this was said of
103 11 | Indeed it ~was Truth himself, God's only begotten Son - and,
104 11 | This same Jesus Christ, God's one and only Son our Lord,
105 11 | obviously the Holy Spirit is God's gift, a gift that is itself
106 11 | wherefore the Holy Spirit is God also, not inferior to the
107 11 | shall be called the Son of God."~78 And when Joseph wished
108 12 | human nature, so that as~God the Father generated the
109 12 | Christ came to be one, Son of God the Father as the Word,
110 12 | Lord Jesus Christ, who is God from God~yet born as man
111 12 | Christ, who is God from God~yet born as man of the Holy
112 12 | the human) the only Son of God the Father Almighty, from
113 12 | Christ - in the~form of God - all things were made.
114 12 | Spirit? Now, just because God made [fecit] this world,
115 12 | the world is the son of God, or that it is "born" of
116 12 | or that it is "born" of God. Rather, one says it was "
117 12 | sense to call them sons of God the Father and of Mother
118 12 | Holy Spirit is the son of God the Father, not of the Holy~
119 12 | suggests to us the grace of God by which a certain human~
120 12 | was joined to the Word~of God in such a unity of person
121 12 | of Man should be Son of God,~and the one who is Son
122 12 | and the one who is Son of God should be Son of Man. Thus,
123 12 | himself is so perfectly God that he is also called God'
124 12 | God that he is also called God's Gift. Still,~to speak
125 13 | he was, by the grace of God (operating in a marvelous
126 13 | you to be reconciled to God," he straightway added, "
127 13 | be the righteousness of God in ~him."~83 He does not
128 13 | Christ] who knew no~sin, he God made to be sin for us."
129 13 | made to be sin for us." The God to whom we are to be reconciled
130 13 | righteousness - not our own but God's, not in~ourselves but
131 13 | rather than the rule of God; and sacrilege too, for
132 13 | man did not~acknowledge God; and murder, since he cast
133 13 | gracious grace and mercy of God interpose.~
134 13 | whether, on this very account, God threatens~to visit the sins
135 14 | the one mediator between God and~men, the man Christ
136 14 | in sin. But he answers, "God forbid!" and adds, "How
137 14 | he ~lives, he lives unto God. So also, reckon yourselves
138 14 | dead to sin, but alive unto God~through Christ Jesus."~102
139 14 | dead to sin, but alive to God in ~Christ Jesus."~
140 14 | sitting~at the right hand of God. Set your affection on things
141 14 | life is hid with Christ in God."~104~
142 14 | sometimes~the judgment of God is passed upon the evil,
143 14 | in the word, "Save me, O God, by thy name, and judge
144 14 | it is~by the judgment of God that the distinction between
145 14 | psalmist cried, "Judge me, O God," and, as if to explain
146 15 | Christ, the only Son of God our Lord, in the brevity~
147 15 | completing the Trinity which is God; and after that we call
148 15 | dwells in it, the temple to God, and the city to its founder.
149 15 | creation, held fast to God, and which never experienced
150 15 | proper worship of the one God.~112 ~Wherefore, neither
151 15 | wishes to be worshiped as God nor to be~God to anyone
152 15 | worshiped as God nor to be~God to anyone belonging to the
153 15 | belonging to the temple of God - the temple that is being
154 15 | gods" ~whom the uncreated God created.~113 Consequently,
155 15 | you, whom you~have from God?"~114 In another place,
156 15 | How, then, is he not God who has a temple? Or how
157 15 | that he has one temple and God~another temple, since the
158 15 | that you are the temple of God," and~then, as if to prove
159 15 | and that the Spirit of God dwelleth in you?" God~therefore
160 15 | of God dwelleth in you?" God~therefore dwelleth in his
161 15 | Therefore, the temple of God - that is, of the supreme
162 15 | again, since that time when "God did not spare ~the sinning
163 16 | deadly stratagems, unless God guides and preserves them!
164 16 | another, but all who are God's should cast their hopes
165 16 | holy angels and powers of~God will become known to us
166 16 | Mediator, and its cry is: "If God be for us, who is against
167 16 | the holy angels, taught by God - in the eternal contemplation
168 16 | apostle says: "For it pleased God that all plenitude of being
169 16 | shall have become "equal to God's angels,"~130 then, even
170 16 | understanding. But the peace of God, which is there, will~still
171 16 | not from himself, but from God. Hence, it follows~that
172 16 | the passage, "The peace of God which passes all understanding,"
173 16 | should be excepted. ~Only God's understanding is excepted;
174 17 | case because the sons of God, as long as they live~this
175 17 | are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God,"~133
176 17 | God, they are the sons of God,"~133 yet even as they are
177 17 | being led by~the Spirit of God and, as sons of God, advance
178 17 | Spirit of God and, as sons of God, advance toward God, they
179 17 | sons of God, advance toward God, they are also being led
180 17 | contrite and humbled heart God will not despise."~136~Still,
181 18 | Works,~142 in which, with God's help, I~have shown as
182 18 | shall inherit the Kingdom of God."~147 Now, if those who
183 18 | then be in the Kingdom of ~God?~
184 18 | thinks of the things of God, how he may~please God."
185 18 | of God, how he may~please God." Such a man builds on Christ
186 18 | not possess the Kingdom of God,"~152 unless their crimes
187 19 | not possess the Kingdom of God" can be perpetrated daily
188 19 | offered as propitiation to God for our past sins. But he
189 19 | when he can. Thus one heeds God's command: "Love your enemies,
190 19 | for the perfect sons of God. And although all the faithful
191 19 | them and through prayer to God and earnest endeavor bring
192 20 | your own soul, pleasing God."~165 The purpose of the
193 20 | should become~pleasing to God, who is justly displeased
194 20 | the mercy of a merciful God we come to~inquire about
195 20 | word of thanksgiving for~God's great love), "But God
196 20 | God's great love), "But God commendeth his love toward
197 20 | wretchedness and begin~to love God with the love he himself
198 20 | this "judgment and love of God." Therefore, they did not
199 20 | justice and the love of God."~"_This_ kind of almsgiving
200 20 | the judgment and love of God - and~"not omit the others" -
201 20 | he hates it according to~God's way of judging. Therefore,
202 20 | and love it according to~God's way. No one, however,
203 21 | the blood of the Son of God was shed to wash them away -
204 21 | great~that the Kingdom of God is wholly closed to them,
205 22 | we should also pray that God should guide us~away from
206 22 | enabled to do so, the mercy of God is prerequisite. Otherwise,
207 22 | say~of some men, "In case God giveth them repentance."~188
208 23(193)| phenomena in The City of God, XVI. viii, 2.~
209 23 | 88. Moreover, with God, the earthly substance from
210 23 | originally composed. Just so, God - an artist who works in
211 23 | not inherit the Kingdom of God," and~then, as if to expound
212 23 | first called "the Kingdom of God" he then later called "incorruption."~
213 23 | the one Mediator between God and man, they will also
214 24 | two infants is taken up by~God's mercy and the other abandoned
215 24 | other abandoned through God's judgment - and when the
216 24 | ashes."~200 Now, obviously, God did not act unjustly in
217 24 | effectual is the will of God, how there are things he~
218 24 | in ~the psalm: "But our God is above in heaven; in heaven
219 24 | Nor should we doubt that God doth well, even when he
220 24 | we profess to believe in God the Father Almighty. For
221 24 | by the~apostle concerning God, "Who willeth that all men
222 24 | that the fact that what God willeth to~happen does not
223 24 | is due to an embargo on God's will by the human will.~
224 24 | This sounds as if God's will had~been overcome
225 24 | despite her unwillingness, God did indeed~gather together
226 25 | Predestination and the Justice of God~~
227 25 | impiously foolish as to say that God cannot turn the evil~wills
228 25 | the electing purpose of God might continue - not~through
229 25 | there unrighteousness in God? God forbid!"~208 Yet it
230 25 | unrighteousness in God? God forbid!"~208 Yet it does
231 25 | from good works or bad, God should love the one and
232 25 | deeds of the other - which God, of course, foreknew - he
233 25 | he~went on to exclaim, "God forbid!" - that is, "God
234 25 | God forbid!" - that is, "God forbid that there should
235 25 | should be unfairness in God"~- he proceeds immediately
236 25 | prove that no unfairness in God is involved here), "For
237 25 | who but a fool would think God unfair either when he imposes
238 25 | nor of him who runs but of~God's showing mercy."~210~Thus,
239 25 | of him who runs, but of God's showing mercy."~212 And,
240 25 | the apostle had commended God's mercy in saying, "So then,
241 25 | of him who runs, but of God's showing mercy," next in
242 25 | unfairness but~justice. For with God there is no ~injustice.
243 25 | for being evil _because_ God "hath mercy on whom he willeth
244 25 | willeth he hardeneth" - God forbid that we should be
245 25 | who are you to reply to God? Does the molded object
246 25 | who is he to talk back to God? And if one does~understand,
247 25 | no one could rail against God's ~justice. And he also
248 25 | deserved and to what end God's merited judgment~would
249 26 | CHAPTER XXVI - The Triumph of God's Sovereign Good Will~~
250 26 | concerned, they did what God did not will that they do,
251 26 | that they do, but as far as~God's omnipotence is concerned,
252 26 | will wills something that God doth not will, even~though
253 26 | doth not will, even~though God's will is much more, and
254 26 | father live, whereas it is God's~good will that he should
255 26 | can will something~that God also willeth with a good
256 26 | father die and~this is also God's will. Of course, the former
257 26 | course, the former wills what God doth not will, whereas the
258 26 | the latter~does will what God willeth. Yet the piety of
259 26 | though he wills not what God willeth, is~more consonant
260 26 | is~more consonant with God's will than is the impiety
261 26 | wills the same thing that~God willeth. There is a very
262 26 | and what is~fitting for God - and also between the ends
263 26 | or disapproved. Actually, God achieveth~some of his purposes -
264 26 | had predicted!~220 And yet God had willed~that he should
265 26 | whether~they will what God willeth or will something
266 26 | hardeneth," the omnipotent God never doth~anything except
267 27 | CHAPTER XXVII - Limits of God's Plan for Human Salvation~~
268 27 | in sacred Scripture that God "willeth that all men~should
269 27 | fully omnipotent will of God. Rather, we must understand
270 27 | that no man is saved unless God~willeth his salvation: not
271 27 | indeed, it was of prayer to God that the apostle~was speaking
272 27 | is enlightened except by God.~In any case, the word concerning
273 27 | case, the word concerning God, "who will have all men
274 27 | of these groups doth not~God will that some men from
275 27 | acceptable in the sight of God our Saviour"~225- ~that
276 27 | truth."~226 Truly, ~then, God hath judged it good that
277 28 | 104. Consequently, God would have willed to preserve
278 28 | is, that he would sin - God ~prearranged his own purpose
279 28 | But the ordered course of God's plan was not to be ~passed
280 28 | aid. But, after the Fall, God's mercy was even more abundant,~
281 28 | itself, but only through God's grace, which is~made effectual
282 28 | receive the other gifts of God through which we~come to
283 28 | eternal - this too comes from God. ~
284 28 | works, is called a~_gift_ of God by the apostle. "For the
285 28 | is death; but the gift of God is ~eternal life in Christ
286 28 | merited goods are gifts from God, and when~life eternal is
287 28 | these two man had chosen, God's will would be done, either
288 28 | his own will instead of God's, God's will~_concerning_
289 28 | own will instead of God's, God's will~_concerning_ him
290 28 | of that ~common source, God maketh "one vessel for honorable,
291 28 | the one Mediator between God and~man, Man himself, Christ
292 28 | if he were not also God. For when Adam was made -~
293 28 | separated the human race from God, it was necessary for a
294 28 | sin, to reconcile us to God, and provide even for our
295 28 | exposed and healed~through God's humility. Thus it might
296 28 | far he had departed from God, when~by the incarnate God
297 28 | God, when~by the incarnate God he is recalled to God; that
298 28 | incarnate God he is recalled to God; that man in his contumacy
299 28 | example of obedience by the God - Man; that the fount of
300 29 | to obtain any merit with God after he is dead that he
301 29 | express~the literal truth. "God will not forget," they say, "
302 29 | their own merits but through God's mercy. Even so, if they
303 29 | Even so, the wrath of God must be understood as still
304 29 | mind, is called "wrath" in God. Yet~even in his wrath -
305 29 | lost out of the Kingdom of God, to~be an exile from the
306 29 | an exile from the City of God, to be estranged from the
307 29 | estranged from the life of God, to suffer loss of the great~
308 29 | of the great~abundance of God's blessings which he has
309 29 | estrangement from the life of God - will~therefore abide without
310 30 | none other than the Lord God whatever it is that we hope
311 30 | to be - the hallowing of God's name, his Kingdom, and
312 30 | be understood. Actually, God's name is even now~hallowed
313 30 | spirit, but the Kingdom of God is yet to come in the resurrection
314 31 | And, without the gift of God - that is, without the Holy~
315 31 | reigns where the love of God does not.~247~
316 31 | state of man.~252~But if God regards a man with solicitude
317 31 | that he then believes in God's help in fulfilling His~
318 31 | be led by the Spirit of God, then the mightier power
319 31 | Thus, also, the history of~God's people has been ordered
320 31 | temporal epochs, as it pleased God, who "ordered~all things
321 32 | includes both ~the love of God and the love of our neighbor
322 32 | commandment is love,"~261 and, "God is~love."~262~Therefore,
323 32 | Therefore, whatsoever things God commands (and one of these
324 32 | standard of our love of God and our love of our neighbor
325 32 | love of our neighbor in God [propter Deum]. This applies~
326 32 | world to come. Now we love God in faith; then, at sight.
327 32 | one have his praise from God"~265 - for what will be
328 32 | lest it remain hidden, God himself will bring to light. ~