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1 26 | 102. But, however strong the
2 27 | 103. Accordingly, when we hear
3 28 | 104. Consequently, God would
4 28 | 105. Thus it was fitting that
5 28 | 106. Human nature lost the former
6 28 | 107. Accordingly, even the life
7 28 | 108. Now, we could not be redeemed,
8 29 | 111. After the resurrection,
9 29 | 112. It is quite in vain, then,
10 30 | 114. Thus, from our confession
11 31 | 117. And now regarding _love_,
12 31 | 118. When, in the deepest shadows
13 31 | 119. Now, in whichever of these
14 31 | 120. Yet, before a man can receive
15 32 | 121. All the divine precepts
16 33 | 122. But somewhere this book
17 24(201)| selecta (Innsbruck, 1895), p. 123.~
18 18(141)| octo is Migne, PL, 40, c. 147-170, and the best English
19 15(120)| Ps. 148:2 (LXX).~
20 19(158)| of the Cure of Souls, pp. 155, 161. (Harper & Brothers,
21 19(158)| Cure of Souls, pp. 155, 161. (Harper & Brothers, 1951,
22 24(201)| Augustine, by Arnauld in 1648, read SI VELLET (if _He_
23 18(141)| is Migne, PL, 40, c. 147-170, and the best English translation
24 24(201)| Enchiridion (Naples, 1847), p. 178; and H. Hurter, Sanctorum
25 6(34) | New York, 1952), pp. 113-179. This had been written about
26 24(201)| Augustini Enchiridion (Naples, 1847), p. 178; and H. Hurter,
27 24(201)| Augustini Enchiridion (Tubingen, 1861 ), p. 116; Faure-Passaglia,
28 24(201)| opuscula selecta (Innsbruck, 1895), p. 123.~
29 19(158)| 161. (Harper & Brothers, 1951, New York.) ~
30 18(142)| see also Migne, PL, 40, c. 197-230. There is an English
31 22(191)| English translation in N-PNF, 1st Series, Vol. VI, Sermon
32 18(142)| also Migne, PL, 40, c. 197-230. There is an English translation
33 7(38) | of skepticism is in III, 23ff. Throughout his whole career
34 22(191)| Vol. VI, Sermon XXI, pp. 318-332.~
35 22(191)| VI, Sermon XXI, pp. 318-332.~
36 15(113)| is Ps. 82:6 and John 10:34f. But note the firm distinction
37 12 | 39. Consequently we should
38 7(37) | Virgil, Aeneid, X, 392.~
39 6(34) | On Lying much earlier, c. 395; see De mendacio in CSEL (
40 1(10) | very early in his ministry (397), Augustine had written
41 24(201)| 77 (See Bibl.); Riviere, 402-403; J.G. Krabinger, S.
42 24(201)| See Bibl.); Riviere, 402-403; J.G. Krabinger, S. Aurelii
43 10(72) | Epistle CXXXVII, written in 412 in reply to a list of queries
44 2(15) | Virgil, Aeneid, IV, 419. The context of this quotation
45 18(141)| The date of the De octo is 422 or, possibly, 423; thus
46 18(141)| octo is 422 or, possibly, 423; thus we have a terminus
47 18(141)| Church, New York, 1952), pp. 427-466.~
48 22(191)| Sermons (LXXI, PL, 38, col. 445-467), to which Possidius
49 13 | 45. Still, even in that one
50 22(191)| LXXI, PL, 38, col. 445-467), to which Possidius gave
51 6(34) | Zycha, ed.), Vol. 41, pp. 469-528; also Migne, PL, 40,
52 5(29) | Ibid., 479.~
53 6(34) | 413-466; Migne, PL, 40, c. 487-518; English translation
54 5(28) | Virgil, Georgios, II, 490.~
55 6(34) | also Migne, PL, 40, c. 517-548; English translation
56 6(34) | 466; Migne, PL, 40, c. 487-518; English translation by
57 14 | 52. And after this discussion
58 6(34) | ed.), Vol. 41, pp. 469-528; also Migne, PL, 40, c.
59 6(34) | also Migne, PL, 40, c. 517-548; English translation by
60 16 | 62. Of course, the holy angels,
61 16 | 63. This peace, as it is written,~"
62 17 | 64. The angels are in concord
63 17 | 65. Nevertheless, no matter
64 17 | 66. Now the remission of sins
65 23(193)| Vitalis, Ep. LXXII, 2; PL, 22, 674. Augustine also refers to
66 18 | 68. But, since these fully
67 18 | 69. It is not incredible that~
68 19 | 71. For the passing and trivial
69 19 | 72. Accordingly, what our Lord
70 19 | 73. But none of these alms
71 19 | 74. Again, if one~seeks forgiveness
72 20 | 75. Now, surely, those who
73 21 | 79. There are, however, some
74 21(176)| 1 Cor. 6:7a.~
75 21(177)| 1 Cor. 6:7b.~
76 21 | 80. To this one might add those
77 23 | 85. Once this fact is established,
78 23 | 86. On this score, a corollary~
79 23 | 87. By the same token, the
80 23 | 89. This earthly matter which
81 23 | 91. The bodies of the saints,
82 23 | 92. But whoever are not liberated
83 23 | 93. Yet neither the first death,
84 24 | 94. And thus it will be that
85 24 | 96. Nor should we doubt that
86 25 | 98. Furthermore, who would
87 18 | believe that those who do not abandon the name of Christ,~and
88 28 | of self - destruction by abandoning justice by an act of~will;
89 2(15) | over Aeneas' prospective abandonment of her. She is saying that
90 23 | comes the question about abortive fetuses,~which are indeed "
91 14 | previously said, "But where sin abounded, grace did much more abound."~99
92 31 | grace was not previously absent from those ~to whom it was
93 13 | so that he may thereby be absolved of~whatever sin was in him
94 18 | may~be understood, without absurdity, to signify such an attachment
95 7(38) | Cassiciacum dialogues, Contra Academicos. The gist of Augustine's
96 7 | the most acute men of the Academy, whether a wise man ought
97 9 | the mercy of God. Thus we accept the dictum, "It is not a
98 27 | argument, "for this is good and acceptable in the sight of God our
99 6 | rashness, when he incautiously accepts as true what is false. On
100 3 | good. Evil, then, is an~accident, i.e., a privation of that
101 30 | hope_ of the ~faithful, accompanied by a holy _love_.~241 But
102 26 | it willed) he could still accomplish what he himself had willed
103 17 | of life, from the age of~accountability (and no matter how vigorously
104 6 | even~something good that accrues to a man through his mistakes.
105 28 | there are other advantages accruing from so great a~mystery
106 6 | good thing may be rightly accused by the prophetic word. But
107 26 | they were quite unable to achieve their purpose. In their
108 26 | this good purpose of his he achieved, not through the good will
109 31 | opened unto it.~246 For faith achieves what the law commands [fides~
110 26 | disapproved. Actually, God achieveth~some of his purposes - which
111 24(201)| reading became the subject of acrimonious controversy between the
112 17(135)| In actione poenitentiae; cf. Luther'
113 14 | concerning Christ's future actions, since we confess that he
114 19 | him as it was~when he was actively hostile.~Now, a man who
115 21 | immediately supplied a medicine, adding the precept of brotherly
116 22 | Church custom~there is an adequate reason why it should be
117 6 | Obviously, no one should be adjudged a~liar who speaks falsely
118 19 | also in that he rebukes and administers corrective punishment, since
119 3 | constitute a universe of~admirable beauty.~~
120 25 | profound and salutary, to admonish all who~carefully look thereupon "
121 20 | you need not~think I am admonishing you to give them up" - "
122 27 | infants, children, the adolescent, young adults and middle-aged
123 12 | since there are some who are adopted. Even those who are called "
124 18 | fornicators, nor idolaters, nor adulterers, nor~the unmanly, nor homosexuals,
125 28 | And if there are other advantages accruing from so great a~
126 31 | revealed~through the first Advent of the Mediator."~255 This
127 23 | remain disfigured by anything adverse and~contrary which time
128 19 | errant the right way, gives~advice to the perplexed, and does
129 32 | ordered but are strongly advised as~good spiritual counsel (
130 20 | as if to say, "I~am advising you to give the kind of
131 2(15) | quotation is Dido's lament over Aeneas' prospective abandonment
132 7 | if these mistakes do not affect that faith by which we move
133 30 | love_.~241 But of these affirmations, all of which ought~_faithfully_
134 23 | and where pain~perpetually afflicts but never destroys, corruption
135 28 | save as divine aid had been afforded man, in the gift of participation
136 10(72) | Augustine by the~proconsul of Africa.~
137 26 | things that the prophet Agabus had predicted!~220 And yet
138 9(59) | nothing except as passive agent of God's will. He insists
139 17(135)| conception of poenitentiam agite in the 95 Theses and in
140 1(10) | Augustine had written De agone Christiano, in which he
141 23 | resurrection for them, then we can agree that at least as much is
142 31 | he hopes for is generally agreed to pertain to true happiness,
143 21 | that it is a sin when he~agrees that apostolic authority
144 1 | composed, men who were divinely aided in~their senses and their
145 9 | to receive divine aid and aideth the will which~has been
146 28 | maintaining life, if the aids of food and other means
147 5 | distresses. ~We must always aim at that true felicity wherein
148 16 | faith. But~when, by these alien wiles, he begins to lead
149 7 | that,~or when two men look alike, as happens in the case
150 10 | Prophets were shadows, should allay that wrath. Thus the~apostle
151 30 | are the temptations that allure and drive us to sinning;~
152 4 | principle is found to apply in almost all disjunctions: two~contraries
153 7 | not only~true, but it is altogether certain as well. And there
154 23 | they~were, but rather in an amended nature and free from faults.
155 20 | lives~and habits, who yet, amid their crimes and misdeeds,
156 16 | shall then have as great amity toward them as they have
157 4 | and good evil." For this amounts to finding fault with God'
158 12 | since they are an unfitting analogy in so great a matter. Yet
159 13 | discovered in the diligent analysis of~that one sin.~
160 1 | experience, or that are analyzed by the intellect, may be
161 18(142)| and Jacobite emphases by analyzing what kind of faith and what
162 13 | guilt, all the sins of their~ancestors from the beginning of the
163 23 | body and not a "spirit" [anima], so then it will be a "
164 3 | the privation of good? In animal bodies, for~instance, sickness
165 3 | the kinds and nature of~animals, plants, stones, springs,
166 23 | returns to the soul that first animated it, and that~caused it to
167 11 | manner by which what he announced would come~to pass (since
168 11 | known no man), the angel answered: "The Holy Spirit shall
169 9 | of~the gifts it does not antedate is - just itself! Thus in
170 9(59) | 8; and even his severest anti-Pelagian tracts: On Grace and Free
171 17 | is an~exception. It is an antidote given us against original
172 31 | of the righteous men of antiquity could find salvation apart
173 29 | happiness of those of whom the ~antithesis was said: "But the righteous
174 8 | error, happiness without anxiety -~we ought not to doubt
175 25 | race was condemned in its apostate head by a divine judgment
176 15 | is~to be found, nor any apostates, nor will there be again,
177 23 | of hidden life, not yet apparent in the motions of a living
178 8 | Moreover, as the soul's appetites are satisfied by things
179 21 | worldly things," he says, "you appoint those who are~contemptible
180 7 | to a pauper who~greatly appreciates the gain. Yet no one would
181 3(22) | heritage which Augustine appropriated for his Christian philosophy.
182 6 | denies that it is bad to approve the false as though it were
183 26 | an act of will is to be approved or disapproved. Actually,
184 19(158)| This is a close approximation of the medieval lists of "
185 23 | will be cheated of nothing apt and fitting which time's~
186 22(186)| Heptateuch, 4:24; De libero arbitrio, 3:18, 55; De div. quaest.,
187 3 | superior insight, ~with their ardor in study and their abundant
188 31 | all doubt, he who loves aright believes and hopes rightly. ~
189 1 | is a heretic. Things that arise in sensory~experience, or
190 4 | from whence evil could have arisen in the first place except
191 25 | the one mass of perdition, arising from a common cause which~
192 4(25) | This refers to Aristotle's well-known principle of "
193 24(201)| edition of Augustine, by Arnauld in 1648, read SI VELLET (
194 1 | something you could carry around, not just baggage~for your
195 31(252)| pressures and their power to arouse guilt feelings, as in Freud'
196 4 | if the corruption is not arrested, it still does not cease
197 5 | to ambush~us. We finally arrived at the place where we were
198 9 | 31. And lest men should arrogate to themselves saving faith
199 19 | can say, "Our Father who art in heaven," who~have already
200 30(241)| Note the artificial return to the triadic scheme
201 27 | and fashion, of all the arts, of all professions, with
202 25 | forbid that we should be ashamed to give the same reply as
203 31 | is a good man, we are not asking what he believes, or hopes,~
204 19 | great~thundering is not asleep, but dead. And yet such
205 7(40) | watchword of the Academics - and assensio, the badge of Christian
206 7(40) | contrast between suspensus assenso - the watchword of the Academics -
207 7 | since all~questions, as they assert, are either mysterious [
208 11 | because the Word of God assuming him became flesh, yet still
209 11 | became flesh, yet still assuredly remained God. Just as~every
210 17 | than with the retaining or~attaining of present goods. Indeed,
211 7 | which do not concern our attainment of the Kingdom of God, it
212 6 | as much who lies in the attempt to be helpful as the man
213 6 | while in his heart he is attempting to deceive. For the first~
214 9 | were merely boasting. This attitude is what the apostle was
215 24 | willing. For, if we could attribute to their wills the infant
216 24(201)| it). This would mean the attribution of a decisive role in human
217 25 | rejoinder, simply rebuked the audacity of his ~gainsayer. But what
218 4 | things can be diminished and augmented. For good to be diminished
219 3(22) | which pervades the whole of Augustinian metaphysics. We see it in
220 32(266)| Minuitur autem cupiditas caritate crescente.~
221 21 | he~agrees that apostolic authority for doing it is given only
222 29 | departs this life, such helps avail him nothing. It is here,
223 24(201)| evidence that had not been available up to that time. In modern
224 18 | Jesus neither circumcision~avails anything, nor uncircumcision,
225 13 | fruit was snatched; and avarice, since he hungered for more
226 30 | forgiveness of sins, and avoidance of temptation.~245 ~However,
227 1 | divers heresies, is to be avoided above all else? ~How far
228 24 | Spiritual Enigmas to Be Awaited in the Life of the World
229 19 | such a word has power to awaken even the dead.~~
230 19 | offenses."~161 He who is not awakened by such great~thundering
231 30 | Creed (which is milk for babes when pondered at the carnal
232 15(113)| Augustine's Scriptural backing for such an unusual phrase
233 7(40) | Academics - and assensio, the badge of Christian certitude.~
234 6 | harm at his hand. He is not badly deceived nor would the prophetic ~
235 7 | knottiest of questions which~baffled the most acute men of the
236 1 | could carry around, not just baggage~for your bookshelf. Therefore
237 23 | their place in the angelic band and impose nothing on their
238 8 | after he had sinned, man was banished, and through his sin he
239 13 | alive by being reborn in the~baptismal font, just as he rose again
240 13 | since no one should be barred~from baptism - just so,
241 2 | many things that have a bearing on religion.~But hope deals
242 19 | prisoner, redeems the captive, bears the burdens of the weak, ~
243 7 | been devoured by~a wild beast. We may err through false
244 23 | or has served as food for beasts or even men and been turned
245 7 | affirm~truth and eternal beatitude, yet they are not unrelated
246 23 | This earthly matter which becomes a corpse upon the soul's
247 23 | punishment, would have ~befallen man if no one had sinned.
248 15 | our Lord, in the brevity~befitting our confession of faith,
249 9 | which God hath~prepared beforehand for us to walk in them."~53~
250 1 | you wished, and might then beg for a brief explication
251 12 | the Holy Spirit did not beget~him? Is it because he made
252 11 | among us," he~added, "and we beheld his glory, a glory as of
253 21 | in many ~things,"~180 it behooves us to pray to the Lord daily
254 12 | absurd in itself that no believer's ear~can bear to hear it.
255 13 | said, ~~"And they fill the belly with the armed warrior,"~84 ~
256 29 | the souls of the dead are benefited by the piety of their living~
257 19 | he shows~mercy.~Now, many benefits are bestowed on the unwilling,
258 18 | a kind~of merely human ~benevolence. For the divine Scripture,
259 13 | For Christ's sake, we beseech you to be reconciled to
260 24 | you, Chorazin; woe to you, Bethsaida. For if in Tyre~and Sidon
261 24(201)| Cf. Scheel, 76-77 (See Bibl.); Riviere, 402-403; J.G.
262 2(17) | phrase of Augustine's for the Bible.~
263 31 | our hearts - the law may bid but it cannot aid~[jubere
264 9 | the original evil did not bind them in the fetters~of inherited
265 21 | not the saints?"~174 And a bit later: "If, ~therefore,
266 22 | might be ~enabled to weep bitterly, the Evangelist tells, "
267 9(63) | explored in Confessions, Bks. I-IX. See especially Bk.
268 4 | and place, both white and black, nor deformed and~well-formed
269 25 | should not~therefore be blamed for being evil _because_
270 22(191)| Possidius gave the title De blasphemia in Spiritum Sanctum. English
271 23 | shall rise again free from blemish and deformity, just as~they
272 23 | lacking, any more than the blemishes wrought~by time will still
273 7 | further progress was being blocked~by objections like this
274 19 | although, in his mercy, he does blot out sins already committed,
275 17 | to those whose sins are blotted out and not reserved to
276 2 | foreseen]~such a grievous blow..." ~15~~Indeed, some grammarians
277 19 | a~giver of alms who, by blows or other discipline, corrects
278 5 | ignorant, the expert to the blunderer, and this with~good reason.
279 9 | proud vanity, he were merely boasting. This attitude is what the
280 24(201)| would thus stand out in bold relief from his general
281 10 | nature entirely free from the bonds of all sin. It was not a
282 4 | entity is good [omnis natura bonum est]. Nothing evil exists _
283 1 | not just baggage~for your bookshelf. Therefore we may return
284 6 | turned to good use by being borne in faithful~patience - as
285 10 | the name "wrath"~as a term borrowed from the language of human
286 19 | he is not somehow to be bought off, as if we~always had
287 29 | been held and finished,~the boundary lines will be set for the
288 5 | so that they burst their bounds~and then subside again,"~29 ~
289 8 | nothing ~other than the bountiful goodness of God himself.
290 31 | true is it that "the Spirit~breatheth where he willeth"~256 that
291 5 | better off than the unerring~brigand? This perhaps explains the
292 9 | lowest~darkness from the brightness of their heavenly home,
293 8 | evil use of his free will broken away from the wholesome
294 21 | medicine, adding the precept of brotherly reconciliation: "If, therefore,~
295 18 | obscure saying about those who build on "the foundation, which
296 18 | first place - whereas in a~building nothing comes before the ~
297 2 | human race stood ~grievously burdened by great misery and in deep
298 19 | redeems the captive, bears the burdens of the weak, ~leads the
299 5 | sea to flood, so that they burst their bounds~and then subside
300 18(142)| an English translation by C.L. Cornish in A Library of
301 9 | mind of the Maker, "who calleth into~existence things which
302 1 | our doctrines against the calumnies of those who think~differently
303 28(229)| wordplay. Man's original capacities included both the power
304 25 | consider the limits of his capacity and, at the ~same time,
305 19 | the prisoner, redeems the captive, bears the burdens of the
306 15 | deliverance from its old captivity, but also that part which,
307 7(38) | 23ff. Throughout his whole career he continued to maintain
308 5 | good.~But now for a more careful consideration of the truth
309 31(247)| wordplay on cupiditas and caritas.~
310 32(266)| Minuitur autem cupiditas caritate crescente.~
311 1 | enchiridion, something you could carry around, not just baggage~
312 15 | apostle Peter writes - "but casting them out, he delivered them
313 21 | CHAPTER XXI - Problems of Casuistry~~
314 1 | holy and perfect in heart catch ~glimpses of that ineffable
315 18 | believe thus, and still are Catholics, are deceived, as it seems
316 6(35) | Sallust, The War with Catiline, X, 6-7.~
317 7 | what this evil~does, never ceasing to subvert this mortality
318 13 | sacrament of baptism, which is celebrated among us. All~who attain
319 23 | marvelous and mysterious celerity, out of ~the whole of the
320 16 | required to fill up the full census of ~that commonwealth. This
321 7 | Limits of Knowledge and Certainty in Various Matters~~
322 7(40) | the badge of Christian certitude.~
323 7 | liberated from~fetters and chains by the angel~36) Or in perceptual
324 14 | baptized, but to that "day" of changeless eternity, in order to show
325 9(59) | this emphasis, which is characteristically directed to the faithful
326 6 | man to be cleared of the charge of~lying whose mouth unknowingly
327 6 | liar, though he could be charged with~rashness, when he incautiously
328 17 | when we are~judged, we are chastised by the Lord, that we may
329 23 | present. Nature, then, will be cheated of nothing apt and fitting
330 2 | which~pertain to the man who cherishes the hope. Since this is
331 24 | together, as a hen gathers her chicks, and you would not."~204
332 1 | love. For these are the chief~things - indeed, the only
333 13 | are dead who sought the child's ~life"~86; it does not
334 28 | become perverted by his own choice. ~Whichever of these two
335 20 | much that they would always choose to continue in them - if
336 24 | most plainly: "Woe to you, Chorazin; woe to you, Bethsaida.
337 23 | between voices that fill out a chorus, this will be managed by
338 1(10) | Augustine had written De agone Christiano, in which he had reviewed
339 10(75) | of speech in Augustine's Christological thought. Cf. On the Gospel
340 17 | established by those~set over the churches, that satisfaction may also
341 18 | in Christ Jesus neither circumcision~avails anything, nor uncircumcision,
342 26 | certainly, good - for under no circumstances~can it ever be evil. For
343 6(34) | Muldowney in Deferrari, op. cit., pp. 47-109. This summary
344 29 | will be set for the two cities: the one of Christ, the
345 21 | iniquity is called a "cry" (clamor). You have such a usage
346 27 | the poor, and the middle class; ~males, females, infants,
347 25 | the potter master of his clay, to make from~the same mass
348 20 | of whom it is written, "Cleansing their hearts by faith."~163
349 6 | said. Nor is a man to be cleared of the charge of~lying whose
350 24 | But the Lord's language is clearer when, in the Gospel, he~
351 24 | it so.~201 Then, in the~clearest light of wisdom, will be
352 21 | we do not dare degrade a clergyman for them. Thus, several
353 23 | hair recovers what frequent clippings have taken off, or the nails
354 21 | court with you, let go your cloak also."~178 And in~another
355 21 | Kingdom of God is wholly closed to them, yet, living with
356 19 | hungry, drink to the thirsty, clothing to the naked, hospitality
357 18(141)| chapter supplies an important clue to the date of the Enchiridion
358 4 | two contraries are thus coexistent, so that if there were no
359 10 | matters. For who can unfold in cogent enough fashion this ~statement,
360 32 | and will make manifest the cogitations of the heart;~and then shall
361 18(142)| which Augustine seeks to combine the Pauline and Jacobite
362 19 | weak, ~leads the blind, comforts the sorrowful, heals the
363 32 | and, indeed, "on these two commandments hang all~the Law and the
364 2 | apostle, when he wished to commend this same~grace, remembered
365 20 | s great love), "But God commendeth his love toward us in that,
366 25 | apostle said this, he was commending grace, of which he had just
367 5 | every sin harms the one who commits it more ~that it does the
368 7 | we~could also "help" by committing adultery, if someone appeared
369 31(252)| Compare the psychological notion
370 4 | connections of the~argument compel us to it as inevitable.
371 25 | damned have a basis for complaining of anything~except what
372 5(31) | of the passage is Damon's complaint over his faithless Nyssa;
373 19 | Spirit."~155 This prayer completely~blots out our minor and
374 15 | in the Holy Spirit, as ~completing the Trinity which is God;
375 10 | more pernicious as they compounded more and worse sins with
376 21 | by pardoning ~them, has conceded this point. Such a case
377 29 | in the slightest degree conceivable - still, to be lost out
378 23(192)| Sicut semina quae concepta non fuerint.~
379 17(135)| poenitentiae; cf. Luther's similar conception of poenitentiam agite in
380 12 | solution.~For what still concerns us is how it can be said, "
381 31 | in man the whole round of~concupiscence, which adds to the guilt
382 6 | to the secrets of human conduct. He calls~the man good on
383 21 | because, as the apostle James confesses, "we all offend in many ~
384 31 | be imparted, although, in conformity to the temporal dispensations,
385 9(59) | paradox and the appearance of confusion. The first is that God's
386 3 | of these matters by human~conjecture and others through historical
387 6 | should lie about things not connected with religion than for one
388 4 | nevertheless the logical connections of the~argument compel us
389 14 | the~devil was overcome and conquered: for, as he had most unjustly
390 31 | not yield to evil desires, conquering them~by his love of ~righteousness.
391 20 | clean; both their minds and ~consciences are unclean."~164 How, then,
392 6 | speaks the truth while his conscious intention is to lie. If
393 6(34) | Ad consentium contra mendacium, CSEL (
394 8 | himself, by his sinning. As a consequence of this, all those descended
395 12 | argument how~many absurd consequences such a notion has, when
396 5 | But now for a more careful consideration of the truth in this business.
397 30 | for~strong men when it is considered and studied spiritually),
398 21 | brother, and that the only sin consisted in wishing it judged outside
399 29 | they are at least a sort~of consolation to the living. Where they
400 26 | what God willeth, is~more consonant with God's will than is
401 15 | together will make one eternal consort, as even now they~are one
402 29 | those means which the Church constantly uses in interceding for
403 3 | good, because together they constitute a universe of~admirable
404 3(22) | philosophy. The good is positive, constructive, essential; evil is privative,
405 4 | corrupted. Whenever a thing is consumed by~corruption, not even
406 4 | consume ~the good without also consuming the thing itself. Every
407 30 | s Prayer may be seen to contain seven~petitions: three of
408 30 | have to do with _hope_ are contained in the Lord's ~Prayer. For "
409 16 | by God - in the eternal contemplation of whose truth~they are
410 21 | you appoint those who are~contemptible in the Church's eyes. I
411 3(22) | Chs. III, V, XII-XVI; On Continence, 14-16; On the Gospel of
412 27 | the Christian faith. Then,~continuing his argument, "for this
413 10(75) | These metaphors for contrasting the "two natures" of Jesus
414 17 | measure of sorrow. For, "a contrite and humbled heart God will
415 24(201)| the subject of acrimonious controversy between the Jansenists and
416 28 | to God; that man in his contumacy might be furnished an~example
417 13 | of sin," then we~have the converse expression in which the
418 12 | fashion of a~"son," and conversely, since not everyone who
419 7 | in the early stages of my conversion because my further progress
420 23 | vapors and the winds, or converted into the substance of other
421 2 | faith is said to be "the conviction of things not~seen."~16
422 13 | we read in some defective copies, "He who knew no sin did
423 1 | letter. If you have kept a copy of it, you can easily refer
424 31(248)| description of the Id, the primal core of our unconscious life.~
425 18(142)| English translation by C.L. Cornish in A Library of Fathers
426 16 | For, when he ~deceives the corporeal senses, and does not thereby
427 23 | earthly matter which becomes a corpse upon the soul's departure
428 20 | wickedness and take no care to correct their lives~and habits,
429 28(229)| non posse peccare. Cf. On Correction and Grace XXXIII.~
430 19 | rebukes and administers corrective punishment, since in this
431 13 | as he might have quite correctly; rather, he preferred to
432 19 | blows or other discipline, corrects and restrains those under
433 4 | there is evil, there is a corresponding diminution of ~the good.
434 4 | something that is good. Only by corrupting something good can~corruption
435 8 | the rebel angels, their corruptors and possessors and~companions),
436 32 | advised as~good spiritual counsel (and one of these is, "It
437 19 | persecute you."~159~Such counsels are for the perfect sons
438 25 | the lineaments of its ~countenance, are found to exhibit a
439 29 | Not that they would go counter~to divine Scripture - but,
440 27 | all professions, with the countless variety of wills and~minds
441 9(59) | theonomism, that man's will counts for little or nothing except
442 21 | not a sin for a married couple to have intercourse, not
443 18 | homosexuals, nor thieves, nor the covetous, nor drunkards, nor revilers,
444 9 | lives, that is, formeth and createth us not as~men - this he
445 26 | and~this through the same creaturely will by which the first
446 9 | that the whole process~is credited to God, who both prepareth
447 6 | small evil to be deceived by crediting a falsehood as the truth
448 8 | In train of this there crept in, even without his willing
449 32(266)| autem cupiditas caritate crescente.~
450 14 | This is why the psalmist cried, "Judge me, O God," and,
451 24(201)| overwhelming support of the critical editors, although Riviere
452 2(15) | to bear it. Augustine's criticism here is a literalistic quibble.~
453 5 | we mistook the way at ~a crossroads and did not go by the place
454 20 | soul is not merciful but cruel to it. For by loving it
455 13 | grace of regeneration be crushed under too heavy a burden
456 20 | clean the outside of the cup and the dish,~but within
457 30 | bound by the bond of this curse. ~Therefore, we should seek
458 30 | the Lord's ~Prayer. For "cursed is everyone," as the divine
459 22 | weakness, even when in Church custom~there is an adequate reason
460 24 | why not all are saved, the customary answer is: "Because~they
461 21 | have come to be public customs that we not only do not
462 10(72) | Epistle CXXXVII, written in 412 in reply
463 5(31) | context of the passage is Damon's complaint over his faithless
464 16 | good, the error is neither dangerous nor fatal to the Christian
465 4 | apply.~25 No~weather is both dark and bright at the same time;
466 16 | part, and we see in a glass darkly."~129 But ~when we shall
467 12 | was made of the seed of David according to the flesh."~80
468 16 | who are able to~avoid his deadly stratagems, unless God guides
469 7 | at the moment trying to deal with that knottiest of questions
470 6 | issue arises which I once dealt with in a large book, in~
471 7 | abandoned in that error so dear to parents concerning the~
472 1 | 1. I cannot say, my dearest son Laurence, how much your
473 5 | as it can, so that even a~deceiver is unwilling to be deceived
474 16 | angel of light, lest by this deception he should seduce us into
475 21 | allows such suits to be decided in~the Church, brothers
476 9 | calling~in God without a decision of his will. In what sense,
477 24(201)| mean the attribution of a decisive role in human salvation
478 4 | even as the Truth ~himself declareth: "Men do not gather grapes
479 32 | light. ~Moreover, passion decreases as love increases~266 until
480 13 | be a newborn infant or a decrepit old man - since no one should
481 20 | they give alms, as they deem it right to give them, even
482 2 | burdened by great misery and in deep need of mercy, a prophet,
483 31 | 118. When, in the deepest shadows of ignorance, he
484 22 | but we shall as surely be defeated unless we are divinely~helped,
485 4 | its ~good is defective or defectible. Thus there can be no evil
486 8 | The cause of evil is the defection of the will of~a being who
487 2 | used by the ~enlightened defenders of the catholic rule of
488 20 | you clean from all inward defilement, just as the bodies~which
489 13 | fathers on their children,"~89 definitely applies to~them before they
490 5 | of error in the mind is deforming and improper, since the
491 23 | with all their faults and deformities, with their diseased and
492 21 | a layman;~we do not dare degrade a clergyman for them. Thus,
493 5 | CHAPTER V - The Kinds and Degrees of Error~~
494 27 | prayers of the lowly he would deign to grant~salvation to the
495 15 | right order of the Creed demanded~110 that the Church be made
496 7 | wisdom but actually a sort of dementia.~
497 1 | by the intellect, may be demonstrated by the reason. But in~matters
498 29 | 110. There is no denying that the souls of the dead
499 29 | bad~that, when such a man departs this life, such helps avail
500 23 | a corpse upon the soul's departure will not, at the~resurrection,