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1 1(10) | Already, very early in his ministry (397), Augustine
2 2 | present experience, determine his faith, he still ought not
3 3(21) | as the very foundation of his whole system.~
4 3 | would not allow any evil in his works, unless in his~omnipotence
5 3 | in his works, unless in his~omnipotence and goodness,
6 3(22) | metaphysics. We see it in his earliest writings, Soliloquies,
7 3(22) | Augustine appropriated for his Christian philosophy. The
8 4 | of the evil treasure of his heart."~24 ~What, then,
9 5(31) | is Damon's complaint over his faithless Nyssa; he is here
10 5 | Indeed, he does not err in his~lying, if he himself knows
11 5 | this, that he supposes that his~lie does no harm to himself,
12 6 | supposes is the truth, since in his case he does not ~deceive
13 6 | that ~man is a liar in his own conscience who speaks
14 6 | falsehood. For as~far as his soul is concerned, since
15 6 | unknowingly speaks the truth while his conscious intention is to
16 6 | falsely - because he judges his statement to be true - than
17 6 | speaks the truth while in his heart he is attempting to
18 6 | not have one intention in his heart and another in his
19 6 | his heart and another in his word, whereas the other, ~
20 6 | whatever be the facts in his statement, still "has one
21 6 | has one thought locked in his heart, another ready on~
22 6 | heart, another ready on~his tongue,"~35 which is the
23 6(34) | 47-109. This summary of his position here represents
24 6 | consequently has to suffer evil on his account. Or, take the man
25 6 | yet suffers no harm at his hand. He is not badly deceived
26 6 | man is not ~deceived in his doctrine of good and evil,
27 6 | accrues to a man through his mistakes. But when I say
28 7 | wicked man, not knowing what his character really is, or
29 7(38) | in III, 23ff. Throughout his whole career he continued
30 7 | thing for something else. In his case, he did not discover
31 7 | way when he believed that his son, who was in fact alive,
32 7 | ought to speak what is in his heart - not only when he~
33 7 | the~opposite of what is in his heart, with the deliberate
34 7 | a man could communicate his thought to others. Wherefore
35 8 | rational creature, that is, his first privation of the good. ~
36 8 | there crept in, even without his willing it, ignorance of
37 8 | was banished, and through his sin he subjected~his descendants
38 8 | through his sin he subjected~his descendants to the punishment
39 8 | corrupted them, in ~himself, by his sinning. As a consequence
40 8 | those descended from him and his wife (who~had prompted him
41 8 | power to form and animate his seed, to direct his members
42 8 | animate his seed, to direct his members in their temporal
43 8 | temporal order, to enliven his~senses in their spatial
44 8 | through the evil use of his powers, trampled and~transgressed
45 8 | transgressed the precepts of his Creator, which could have
46 8 | stubbornly turned away from His Light and violated the image
47 8 | who had in the evil use of his free will broken away from
48 8 | more striking~evidence of his mercy by pardoning some
49 9 | first rose in rebellion with his impious~company and was
50 9 | everlasting~security in his unfailing steadfastness.~
51 9 | he had been rescued from his lostness? ~Could he do this
52 9 | by the determination of his free will? Of course not!
53 9 | it was in the evil use~of his free will that man destroyed
54 9 | man destroyed himself and his will at the same time. For
55 9 | himself after he has destroyed his own life - so also sin which
56 9 | freely does the will~of his master. Accordingly he who
57 9 | bound and sold, get back his liberty to do good, unless
58 9 | man, could anyone glory in his good works as if they were
59 9 | as if they were acts~of his free will, when he is not
60 9 | added~further, "For we are his workmanship, created in
61 9 | which he is now doing by his grace,~that we may indeed
62 9 | anyone glory, if not in his own works, at least in the
63 9 | in the determination of his~free will, as if some merit
64 9 | will and to do according to his good will."~56 And,~in another
65 9 | of man's willing, or of his running, but of God's~showing
66 9 | is old enough to exercise his reason~cannot believe, hope,
67 9 | he run for the prize of his high calling~in God without
68 9 | God without a decision of his will. In what sense, therefore,
69 9 | Eloquence we read both, "His ~mercy goes before me,"~60
70 9(59) | not illogical corollary of his theonomism, that man's will
71 9(59) | Tractate, 53:6-8; and even his severest anti-Pelagian tracts:
72 9 | before me,"~60 and also, "His mercy shall follow me."~61
73 9 | before he wills, to prompt his willing. It follows the
74 9 | pray for ourselves that his~mercy shall follow us. ~
75 10 | reconciled to God by the death of his Son,~even more now being
76 10 | now being reconciled by his blood we shall be saved
77 10 | soul of a wrathful man. His verdict, which is always
78 10 | of a virgin, conceived~by His mother's faith and not her
79 10 | fleshly desires. Now if in his being born, her virginity
80 10 | Church ~which, imitating his mother, daily gives birth
81 10 | mother, daily gives birth to his members yet remains virgin.
82 10 | also, since in the unity of his Person a rational soul and
83 11 | indeed the angel hailed his~mother when announcing to
84 11 | he~added, "and we beheld his glory, a glory as of the
85 11 | Christ's birth in respect to his human nature was of the
86 12 | that the Holy Spirit is his Father through begetting
87 12 | preceding, at the very outset of his existence, was joined to
88 12 | be Son of Man. Thus, in his assumption of human nature,~
89 13 | Just as he was sin - not his own but ours, rooted not
90 13 | of sinning, he might, in his resurrection,~signify the
91 13 | man~preferred to be under his own rule rather than the
92 13 | in the evil deeds of all his forebears, and their multiplied
93 13 | generations,~because in his mercy he will not continue
94 13 | mercy he will not continue his wrath beyond that. It is
95 13 | wrath beyond that. It is not his purpose that those~not given
96 14 | they could be reborn.~For his baptism is not with water
97 14 | Father spoken over him at his baptism,~"Today have I begotten
98 14 | to wash away any sin of his own, but to~manifest his
99 14 | his own, but to~manifest his great humility. Indeed,
100 14 | piteous necessity but through his own free act of showing
101 14 | which he has committed on his own.~
102 14 | the same sense ~in which his resurrection is real, so
103 14 | Jesus were baptized into his death?"~101 ~If, therefore,
104 14 | since they are baptized into his own~death. For there is
105 14 | Jesus are~baptized into his death." And the effect of
106 14 | with him in the likeness of his death, we shall be~also
107 14 | with him in the likeness of his resurrection, knowing this,
108 14 | Christ were baptized into his death?" Thus he~concludes
109 14 | the crucifixion of Christ, his burial, his resurrection
110 14 | crucifixion of Christ, his burial, his resurrection on~the third
111 14 | resurrection on~the third day, his ascension into heaven, his
112 14 | his ascension into heaven, his being seated at the Father'
113 14 | here on the earth. Thus, of his crucifixion it was said,~"
114 14 | lusts ~thereof"~103; and of his burial, "For we are buried
115 14 | baptism into death"; of his~resurrection, "Since Christ
116 14 | in newness of life"; of his ascension and session at
117 14 | because it belongs not to his deeds already done, but
118 14 | shall~have left it before his coming. Or, on the other
119 14 | good may be set apart at his right ~hand.~108 This is
120 15 | Christ whose members are his temple? It is not that he
121 15 | and~then, as if to prove his point, added, "and that
122 15 | God~therefore dwelleth in his temple, not the Holy Spirit
123 15 | Father and Son, who saith of~his body - in which he standeth
124 15 | the verse, "Praise him all his angels; praise him, all
125 15 | angels; praise him, all his powers,"~120 would mean
126 15 | thing as, "Praise him, all his angels; praise him, all
127 15 | angels; praise him, all his archangels"? Or, what distinctions~
128 15 | Lord appeared to him in his sleep, ~saying..."~123?
129 16 | he begins to lead us into his own ways, then great vigilance
130 16 | there who are able to~avoid his deadly stratagems, unless
131 16 | that no man should rest his hopes in himself, nor~one
132 16 | us? He that spared ~not his own Son, but delivered him
133 16 | what was done for man by his death for man's redemption
134 16 | for man's redemption and his deliverance~from evil was
135 16 | with them by the blood of his ~cross, whether those things
136 16 | excepted; for, of course, his peace does not surpass his
137 16 | his peace does not surpass his own~understanding.~~
138 17 | according to the measure of his sin. ~And, in the act of
139 18(141)| re-use "good material." In his treatise on The Eight Questions
140 18(141)| entire chapter as a part of his answer to the question whether
141 18 | and who are baptized in his laver in the Church, who
142 18 | yet has not works, can his faith~be enough to save
143 18 | saved by fire on account of his faith only, and if this
144 18 | and Christ still holds his place as foundation in the
145 18 | world, how he may please his wife"~151; that is,~he builds
146 18 | though he may grieve over his loss - "he is saved," indeed, "
147 18 | the indestructibility of his foundation.~
148 18 | impute merit to those on his right hand; and, on~the
149 18 | unfruitfulness, demerit to those on his left - when he shall say
150 19 | sin"~154 - although, in his mercy, he does blot out
151 19 | and restrains those under his command,~if at the same
152 19 | perfect that he~already loves his enemies, still forgives
153 19 | against him and who~now asks his forgiveness. For he surely
154 19 | whom he sinned - moved by his sin to seek it - he should~
155 19 | forgiveness and is repentant~of his sins can in no way suppose
156 19 | can in no way suppose that his own sins are forgiven by
157 20 | and to be born again in his grace? And yet, what they
158 20 | give alms as a set plan of his life should begin with himself
159 20 | love), "But God commendeth his love toward us in that,
160 20 | make plain~the import of his admonition, which they had
161 20 | who loves iniquity hates his own soul."~171 And he who
162 20 | soul."~171 And he who hates his own~soul is not merciful
163 20 | clean to him, he would hate his soul after the world's way
164 20 | Accordingly," it is said, "His mercy shall go before me."~172~~
165 21 | who could judge between his brethren? But brother goes
166 21 | back."~179 Thus, he forbids his~own to go to court with
167 21 | suppose that one saying to his ~brother, "You fool," is "
168 21 | praised in the desires of his soul; and he that works
169 22 | and ends, and persists to his last day in such an obstinacy
170 23 | that~each shall retain his special features and the
171 23 | recognizable likeness of his former self -~while an equality
172 23 | also rise again, each in his own~flesh, but only that
173 23 | together with the devil and his angels. Whether these~men
174 24 | knows what would have been his just deserts in judgment -
175 24(201)| in the interpretation of his doctrine. All but one of
176 24(201)| out in bold relief from his general stress in the rest
177 24 | because the efficacy of his~omnipotent will is not impeded
178 25 | him no ground to boast of his own distinctive~merits -
179 25 | intends to speak also of his judgment - for where his
180 25 | his judgment - for where his mercy is not shown, it is
181 25 | He showeth mercy out of his great goodness; he hardeneth~
182 25 | glorying in~any merit of his own; nor does the man who
183 25 | find fault? For who resists his will?"~215 - as if to make
184 25 | not the potter master of his clay, to make from~the same
185 25 | rebuked the audacity of his ~gainsayer. But what he
186 25 | to consider the limits of his capacity and, at the ~same
187 25 | have brought them, had not his undeserved mercy interposed.
188 26 | well-considered in all his acts of will"~218 -~and
189 26 | well-considered that when his angelic and human creation
190 26 | very ~act of going against his will, his will was thereby
191 26 | going against his will, his will was thereby accomplished.
192 26 | well-considered in all his acts of will" - that in
193 26 | that which is done against his will is not done without
194 26 | will is not done without his will. ~For it would not
195 26 | would not be done without his allowing it - and surely
196 26 | allowing it - and surely his permission is not unwilling
197 26 | evil to be done, unless in his omnipotence he could~bring
198 26 | is a good son's will that his father live, whereas it
199 26 | example, a bad son wills that his father die and~this is also
200 26 | ends to which a man directs his will - and this difference~
201 26 | Actually, God achieveth~some of his purposes - which are, of
202 26 | And this good purpose of his he achieved, not through
203 26 | Yet they were more fully his who did not will~what he
204 26 | willing ~instruments of his purpose - for while he and
205 26 | good will, whereas they did his good will with their ill
206 27 | saved unless God~willeth his salvation: not that there
207 27 | He willeth it. Moreover, his will should be sought in
208 27 | should be saved through his only begotten Son our ~Lord?
209 27 | faith. Then,~continuing his argument, "for this is good
210 28 | man would make bad use of his free will - that is, that
211 28 | would sin - God ~prearranged his own purpose so that he could
212 28 | will~not thereby restrict his free will. Indeed, his will
213 28 | restrict his free will. Indeed, his will will be much freer,
214 28 | justice was to be maintained, his will alone would not have
215 28 | or become perverted by his own choice. ~Whichever of
216 28 | Wherefore, since man chose to do his own will instead of God'
217 28 | for honorable use through his mercy, the ones for ignoble
218 28 | for ignoble use through his judgment; lest anyone~glory
219 28 | recalled to God; that man in his contumacy might be furnished
220 29 | is~a secret shelter for his soul, as each is worthy
221 29 | to show mercy, nor in his anger will he shut up~his
222 29 | his anger will he shut up~his mercy." This is, in fact,
223 29 | wrath" in God. Yet~even in his wrath - his wrath resting
224 29 | Yet~even in his wrath - his wrath resting on them -
225 29 | them - he does not "shut up his mercy." This is not to~put
226 29 | not say, "To put an end to his wrath," or, "_After_ his
227 29 | his wrath," or, "_After_ his wrath," but,~"_In_ his wrath."
228 29 | his wrath," but,~"_In_ his wrath." Now, if this wrath
229 30 | eloquence testified, "who rests his hope in~man."~242 Thus,
230 30 | Thus, he who rests his hope in himself is bound
231 30 | hallowing of God's name, his Kingdom, and his~will, in
232 30 | s name, his Kingdom, and his~will, in our spirit and
233 30 | the Evangelist Luke, in his version of the Lord's Prayer,
234 30 | discrepancy here, but rather, in his brief way, the Evangelist~
235 31 | cannot realize the object of his hopes. An example of this
236 31 | Spirit has not yet come to his aid - so~that even if he
237 31 | God's help in fulfilling His~commands, and if a man begins
238 31 | that~fights against him - his infirmity being not yet
239 31 | desires, conquering them~by his love of ~righteousness.
240 31 | man, then and there all his past sins are forgiven him
241 31 | being born is removed by his being reborn. And so true
242 32 | then shall each one have his praise from God"~265 - for
243 32 | and loved in a~neighbor by his neighbor is just that which,
244 32 | has, that a man lay down his life for~his friends."~267
245 32 | man lay down his life for~his friends."~267 Who, then,
246 33 | as one of the members of his body, I have written this~