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1 pre | PREFACE.~THE first part of this book 2 pre | without my knowledge, before the work had been completed 3 pre | great anguish of heart, the origin and reason of which 4 pre | are known to God, that, at the entreaty of others, I began 5 pre | entreaty of others, I began the book in England, and finished 6 pre | an exile in Capra. From the theme on which it was published 7 pre | it into two short books. The first contains the objections 8 pre | books. The first contains the objections of infidels, 9 pre | of infidels, who despise the Christian faith because 10 pre | contrary to reason; and also the reply of believers; and, 11 pre | proves, by absolute reasons, the impossibility that any man 12 pre | saved without him. Again, in the second book, likewise, as 13 pre | this brief preface, with the heads of the whole work, 14 pre | preface, with the heads of the whole work, at its commencement; 15 pre | may fall, as he looks on the face of it, there may be 16 pre | there may be nothing in the whole body of the work which 17 pre | nothing in the whole body of the work which shall escape 18 I, 1 | CHAPTER I.~The question on which the whole 19 I, 1 | I.~The question on which the whole work rests.~I HAVE 20 I, 1 | would hand down in writing the proofs of a certain doctrine 21 I, 1 | This they ask, not for the sake of attaining to faith 22 I, 1 | affirm, restored life to the world; when he might have 23 I, 1 | merely by his will. Not only the learned, but also many unlearned 24 I, 1 | it seem very difficult in the investigation, it is yet 25 I, 1 | it is yet plain to all in the solution, and attractive 26 I, 1 | solution, and attractive for the value and beauty of the 27 I, 1 | the value and beauty of the reasoning; although what 28 I, 1 | sufficient has been said by the holy fathers and their successors, 29 I, 1 | subject; one, who among the rest impels me more earnestly 30 I, 2 | should be received.~Boso. As the right order requires us 31 I, 2 | order requires us to believe the deep things of Christian 32 I, 2 | after we are established in the faith, we do not seek to 33 I, 2 | consider myself to hold the faith of our redemption, 34 I, 2 | faith of our redemption, by the prevenient grace of God, 35 I, 2 | omnipotent, should have assumed the littleness and weakness 36 I, 2 | weakness of human nature for the sake of its renewal?~Anselm.. 37 I, 2 | in error with regard to the substance of the truth, 38 I, 2 | regard to the substance of the truth, than that my intellect 39 I, 2 | should call to mind, on the other hand, that it often 40 I, 2 | that it often happens in the discussion of some question 41 I, 2 | that you should hope for the grace of God, because if 42 I, 2 | be fully examined without the rest; and so the discussion 43 I, 2 | without the rest; and so the discussion of these topics 44 I, 2 | all that is requisite for the present object, and what 45 I, 2 | your request, not only that the subject is important, but 46 I, 2 | is of a form fair above the sons of men, so is it of 47 I, 2 | it of a wisdom fair above the intellect of men. On this 48 I, 2 | this request of mine for the learned but for me, and 49 I, 2 | for me, and those asking the same thing with me.~Anselm.. 50 I, 2 | pious zeal, I will try to the best of my ability with 51 I, 2 | best of my ability with the assistance of God and your 52 I, 2 | as so appearing to me for the time, until God in some 53 I, 2 | therefore, to make use of the words of infidels; for it 54 I, 2 | when we seek to investigate the reasonableness of our faith 55 I, 2 | of our faith to propose the objections of those who 56 I, 2 | wholly unwilling to submit to the same faith, without the 57 I, 2 | the same faith, without the support of reason. For although 58 I, 2 | not believe, but we, on the other hand, because we do 59 I, 2 | do believe; nevertheless, the thing sought is one and 60 I, 2 | thing sought is one and the same. And if you bring up 61 I, 3 | affirm that he descended into the womb of a virgin, that he 62 I, 3 | of woman, that he grew on the nourishment of milk and 63 I, 3 | nourishment of milk and the food of men; and, passing 64 I, 3 | give him thanks with all the heart, praising and proclaiming 65 I, 3 | praising and proclaiming the ineffable height of his 66 I, 3 | height of his compassion. For the more astonishing a thing 67 I, 3 | had forfeited; by so much the more has he shown his more 68 I, 3 | join with us in praising the wise beneficence of God. 69 I, 3 | For, as death came upon the human race by the disobedience 70 I, 3 | came upon the human race by the disobedience of man, it 71 I, 3 | be restored. And, as sin, the cause of our condemnation, 72 I, 3 | origin from a woman, so ought the author of our righteousness 73 I, 3 | also was it proper that the devil, who, being man's 74 I, 3 | conquered him in eating of the tree, should be vanquished 75 I, 3 | be vanquished by man in the suffering of the tree which 76 I, 3 | man in the suffering of the tree which man bore. Many 77 I, 4 | that God wished to suffer the things which we speak of. 78 I, 4 | air, because no traces of the picture remain in them. 79 I, 4 | of as so many pictures of the real thing, since they do 80 I, 4 | upon a cloud. Therefore the rational existence of the 81 I, 4 | the rational existence of the truth first be shown, I 82 I, 4 | first be shown, I mean, the necessity, which proves 83 I, 4 | affirm. Afterwards, to make the body of the truth, so to 84 I, 4 | Afterwards, to make the body of the truth, so to speak, shine 85 I, 4 | proportions, like pictures of the body, must be described.~ 86 I, 4 | described.~Anselm.. Does not the reason why God ought to 87 I, 4 | reason why God ought to do the things we speak of seem 88 I, 4 | enough when we consider that the human race, that work of 89 I, 4 | that it was not seemly that the purpose which God had made 90 I, 4 | concerning man should fall to the ground; and, moreover, that 91 I, 4 | carried into effect unless the human race were delivered 92 I, 5 | CHAPTER V.~How the redemption of man could 93 I, 5 | angelic or a human being), the mind of man would receive 94 I, 5 | man it should seem that the work we speak of could have 95 I, 5 | would rightly be adjudged as the servant of that being? Now 96 I, 5 | be through eternity only the servant of God and an equal 97 I, 5 | of God and an equal with the holy angels, would now be 98 I, 5 | holy angels, would now be the servant of a being who was 99 I, 5 | who was not God, and whom the angels did not serve.~ ~ 100 I, 6 | that he came to overcome the devil for us. ~Boso. This 101 I, 6 | and from hell, and from the power of the devil, whom 102 I, 6 | hell, and from the power of the devil, whom he came to vanquish 103 I, 6 | that he purchased for us the kingdom of heaven; and that, 104 I, 6 | these things, he manifested the greatness of his love towards 105 I, 6 | as you believe, created the universe by a word, could 106 I, 6 | regulated by his will; for the wrath of God is nothing 107 I, 6 | does not desire to punish the sins of men, man is free 108 I, 6 | from his sins, and from the wrath of God, and from hell, 109 I, 6 | and from hell, and from the power of the devil, all 110 I, 6 | hell, and from the power of the devil, all which things 111 I, 6 | devil, all which things are the sufferings of sin; and, 112 I, 6 | whose power is hell, or the devil? Or, whose is the 113 I, 6 | the devil? Or, whose is the kingdom of heaven, if it 114 I, 6 | God were unwilling to save the human race in any other 115 I, 6 | simple will, observe, to say the least, how you disparage 116 I, 6 | differently, why is it that, for the sake of displaying his love, 117 I, 6 | love, he does and suffers the things which you enumerate? 118 I, 6 | of his coming to vanquish the devil for you, with what 119 I, 6 | you allege this? Is not the omnipotence of God everywhere 120 I, 6 | from heaven to vanquish the devil? These are the objections 121 I, 6 | vanquish the devil? These are the objections with which infidels 122 I, 7 | CHAPTER VII.~How the devil had no justice on 123 I, 7 | MOREOVER, I do not see the force of that argument, 124 I, 7 | were, to try a contest with the devil in justice, before 125 I, 7 | strength, so that, when the devil should put to death 126 I, 7 | used undue force against the devil, since the devil had 127 I, 7 | against the devil, since the devil had a rightful ownership 128 I, 7 | rightful ownership of man, for the devil had not seized man 129 I, 7 | well enough be said, if the devil or man belonged to 130 I, 7 | being than God, or were in the power of any but God. But 131 I, 7 | but God. But since neither the devil nor man belong to 132 I, 7 | neither can exist without the exertion of Divine power, 133 I, 7 | stolen from his Lord by the persuasions of the other, 134 I, 7 | Lord by the persuasions of the other, both were thieves. 135 I, 7 | do this? Or, should God, the judge of all, snatch man, 136 I, 7 | snatch man, thus held, out of the power of him who holds him 137 I, 7 | unrighteously, either for the purpose of punishing him 138 I, 7 | other way than by means of the devil, or of sparing him, 139 I, 7 | deserved to be tormented by the devil, yet the devil tormented 140 I, 7 | tormented by the devil, yet the devil tormented him unjustly. 141 I, 7 | his consent to sin. But the infliction of punishment 142 I, 7 | was nothing meritorious in the devil; on the other hand, 143 I, 7 | meritorious in the devil; on the other hand, he was even 144 I, 7 | For he did not do this at the command of God, but God' 145 I, 7 | opinion, those who think that the devil has any right in holding 146 I, 7 | man is justly exposed to the tormenting of the devil, 147 I, 7 | exposed to the tormenting of the devil, and that God in justice 148 I, 7 | therefore they suppose that the devil rightly inflicts it. 149 I, 7 | rightly inflicts it. For the very same thing, from opposite 150 I, 7 | do not carefuIIy inspect the matter, is deemed wholly 151 I, 7 | beaten himself; if, however, the one who was beaten, though 152 I, 7 | himself, yet does strike the person who beat him, then 153 I, 7 | And hence this violence on the part of the man who returns 154 I, 7 | violence on the part of the man who returns the blow 155 I, 7 | part of the man who returns the blow is unjust, because 156 I, 7 | as far as he who received the blow is concerned, it is 157 I, 7 | Therefore, from opposite views, the same action is both just 158 I, 7 | another only unjust. So also the devil is said to torment 159 I, 7 | suffering is inflicted by the hand of justice itself, 160 I, 7 | but that he is punished by the just judgment of God. But 161 I, 7 | decree is brought up, which the Apostle says was made against 162 I, 7 | against us, and cancelled by the death of Christ; and if 163 I, 7 | intended by this decree that the devil, as if under the writing 164 I, 7 | that the devil, as if under the writing of a sort of compact, 165 I, 7 | should justly demand sin and the punishment of sin, of man, 166 I, 7 | suffered, as a debt for the first sin to which he tempted 167 I, 7 | For that writing is not of the devil, because it is called 168 I, 7 | devil, because it is called the writing of a decree of the 169 I, 7 | the writing of a decree of the devil, but of God. For by 170 I, 7 | devil, but of God. For by the just judgment of God it 171 I, 7 | henceforth of himself have the power to avoid sin or the 172 I, 7 | the power to avoid sin or the punishment of sin; for the 173 I, 7 | the punishment of sin; for the spirit is out-going and 174 I, 7 | impunity, unless pity spare the sinner, and deliver and 175 I, 7 | be found any justice on the part of the devil in his 176 I, 7 | any justice on the part of the devil in his tormenting 177 I, 7 | therefore, as respects the devil, why God should not 178 I, 7 | own power against him for the liberation of man.~ ~ 179 I, 8 | CHAPTER VIII.~How, althougth the acts of Christ's condescension 180 I, 8 | his own will. ~Anselm.. The will of God ought to be 181 I, 8 | see why he does it. For the will of God is never irrational.~ 182 I, 8 | granted that God does wish the thing in question; but many 183 I, 8 | Boso. This in brief: that the Most High should stoop to 184 I, 8 | to things so lowly, that the Almighty should do a thing 185 I, 8 | belief. For we affirm that the Divine nature is beyond 186 I, 8 | effect. But we say that the Lord Jesus Christ is very 187 I, 8 | infirmity, we do not refer to the majesty of that nature, 188 I, 8 | which cannot suffer; but to the feebleness of the human 189 I, 8 | but to the feebleness of the human constitution which 190 I, 8 | intend no debasement of the Divine nature, but we teach 191 I, 8 | both Divine and human. In the incarnation of God there 192 I, 8 | there is no lowering of the Deity; but the nature of 193 I, 8 | lowering of the Deity; but the nature of man we believe 194 I, 8 | let nothing be referred to the Divine nature, which is 195 I, 8 | is spoken of Christ after the manner of human weakness; 196 I, 8 | a manner, that man whom the Father called his beloved 197 I, 8 | was well pleased, and whom the Son made himself? For what 198 I, 8 | his suffering death for the sinner, who was the most 199 I, 8 | for the sinner, who was the most just of all men? What 200 I, 8 | What man, if he condemned the innocent to free the guilty, 201 I, 8 | condemned the innocent to free the guilty, would not himself 202 I, 8 | of condemnation? And so the matter seems to return to 203 I, 8 | matter seems to return to the same incongruity which is 204 I, 8 | other way than by condemning the just, where is his omnipotence? 205 I, 8 | and justice?~Anselm.. God the Father did not treat that 206 I, 8 | suppose, nor put to death the innocent for the guilty. 207 I, 8 | to death the innocent for the guilty. For the Father did 208 I, 8 | innocent for the guilty. For the Father did not compel him 209 I, 8 | accord he endured death for the salvation of men.~Boso. 210 I, 8 | will, since he agreed to the will of the Father; yet 211 I, 8 | he agreed to the will of the Father; yet the Father seems 212 I, 8 | will of the Father; yet the Father seems to have bound 213 I, 8 | being made obedient to the Father even unto death, 214 I, 8 | even unto death, and that the death of the cross. For 215 I, 8 | death, and that the death of the cross. For which cause God 216 I, 8 | he learned obedience from the things which he suffered;" 217 I, 8 | for us all." And likewise the Son says: "I came not to 218 I, 8 | not to do my own will, but the will of him that sent me." 219 I, 8 | to suffer, he says; "As the Father has given me commandment, 220 I, 8 | commandment, so I do." Again: "The cup which the Father has 221 I, 8 | Again: "The cup which the Father has given me, shall 222 I, 8 | Christ endured death by the constraint of obedience, 223 I, 8 | constraint of obedience, than by the inclination of his own free 224 I, 9 | do not rightly understand the difference between what 225 I, 9 | difference between what he did at the demand of obedience, and 226 I, 9 | clearly.~Anselm.. Why did the Jews persecute him even 227 I, 9 | owed this obedience to God the Father, humanity to Deity; 228 I, 9 | humanity to Deity; and the Father claimed it from him.~ 229 I, 9 | you see what he did, under the demand of obedience.~Boso. 230 I, 9 | but I should like to hear the reason of the thing from 231 I, 9 | like to hear the reason of the thing from you.~Anselm.. 232 I, 9 | Anselm.. You acknowledge that the intelligent creature was 233 I, 9 | purpose, viz., to be happy in the enjoyment of God.~Boso. 234 I, 9 | may, indeed be said, that the Father commanded him to 235 I, 9 | this sense, then, that "as the Father gave him the commandment, 236 I, 9 | as the Father gave him the commandment, so he did, 237 I, 9 | commandment, so he did, and the cup which He gave to him, 238 I, 9 | he was made obedient to the Father, even unto death;" 239 I, 9 | he learned obedience from the things which he suffered," 240 I, 9 | should be maintained. Now the word "didicit," which is 241 I, 9 | understanding of before. Again, when the Apostle had said: "he humbled 242 I, 9 | even unto death, and that the death of the cross," be 243 I, 9 | death, and that the death of the cross," be added: "wherefore 244 I, 9 | David said: "he drank of the brook in the way, therefore 245 I, 9 | he drank of the brook in the way, therefore did he lift 246 I, 9 | therefore did he lift up the head." For it is not meant 247 I, 9 | been committed to him by the Father, and that all things 248 I, 9 | all things belonging to the Father were his); but the 249 I, 9 | the Father were his); but the expression is used because 250 I, 9 | because he had agreed with the Father and the Holy Spirit, 251 I, 9 | agreed with the Father and the Holy Spirit, that there 252 I, 9 | no other way to reveal to the world the height of his 253 I, 9 | way to reveal to the world the height of his omnipotence, 254 I, 9 | which it may be done; when the first thing which we wish 255 I, 9 | we wish to do is done, if the result is such as we intended, 256 I, 9 | said to be on account of the other; since that is now 257 I, 9 | is now done which caused the delay; for it had been determined 258 I, 9 | had been determined that the first thing should not be 259 I, 9 | should not be done without the other. If, for instance, 260 I, 9 | I delay crossing because the boat is gone; but if afterwards 261 I, 9 | afterwards I cross, when the boat has returned, it may 262 I, 9 | be properly said of me: the boat was ready, and therefore 263 I, 9 | has not to-day attended the celebration of mass; when 264 I, 9 | Far less, therefore, is the language strange, when Christ 265 I, 9 | may be understood also in the same way as that passage 266 I, 9 | not that this was really the case, but that he deported 267 I, 9 | to do mine own will, but the will of him that sent me," 268 I, 9 | but God's. Now no one has the truth which he teaches, 269 I, 9 | his own will, but that of the Father; for his holy will 270 I, 9 | For there are found in the Bible many things like this. 271 I, 9 | signifies by his own will the natural desire of safety, 272 I, 9 | human nature shrank from the anguish of death. But he 273 I, 9 | death. But he speaks of the will of the Father, not 274 I, 9 | he speaks of the will of the Father, not because the 275 I, 9 | the Father, not because the Father preferred the death 276 I, 9 | because the Father preferred the death of the Son to his 277 I, 9 | Father preferred the death of the Son to his life; but because 278 I, 9 | to his life; but because the Father was not willing to 279 I, 9 | was not willing to rescue the human race, unless man were 280 I, 9 | thing as was signified in the death of Christ. Since reason 281 I, 9 | could not do, therefore, the Son says that he desires 282 I, 9 | suffer, rather than that the human race should be lost; 283 I, 9 | as if he were to say to the Father: "Since you do not 284 I, 9 | Since you do not desire the reconciliation of the world 285 I, 9 | desire the reconciliation of the world to take place in any 286 I, 9 | death take place, so that the world may be reconciled 287 I, 9 | not choose something else, the choice of which would preclude 288 I, 9 | of which would preclude the existence of that which 289 I, 9 | does not choose to close the window through which the 290 I, 9 | the window through which the draft is admitted which 291 I, 9 | admitted which puts out the light, wishes the light 292 I, 9 | puts out the light, wishes the light to be extinguished. 293 I, 9 | light to be extinguished. So the Father desired the death 294 I, 9 | extinguished. So the Father desired the death of the Son, because 295 I, 9 | Father desired the death of the Son, because he was not 296 I, 9 | he was not willing that the world should be saved in 297 I, 9 | it, availed as much with the Son, who so earnestly desired 298 I, 9 | who so earnestly desired the salvation of man, as if 299 I, 9 | salvation of man, as if the Father had commanded him 300 I, 9 | die; and, therefore, "as the Father gave him commandment, 301 I, 9 | commandment, so he did, and the cup which the Father gave 302 I, 9 | he did, and the cup which the Father gave to him he drank, 303 I, 0 | CHAPTER X~Likewise on the same topics; and how otherwise 304 I, 0 | same holy will by which the son wished to die for the 305 I, 0 | the son wished to die for the salvation of the world, 306 I, 0 | die for the salvation of the world, that the Father gave 307 I, 0 | salvation of the world, that the Father gave him commandment ( 308 I, 0 | not by compulsion), and the cup of suffering, and spared 309 I, 0 | desired his death; and that the Son himself was obedient 310 I, 0 | and learned obedience from the things which he suffered. 311 I, 0 | being of himself, but of the Father; so also that will 312 I, 0 | which he desired to die for the accomplishment of so great 313 I, 0 | could not have had but from the Father of lights, from whom 314 I, 0 | and perfect gift. And as the Father is said to draw by 315 I, 0 | that he moves man. For as the Son says of the Father: " 316 I, 0 | For as the Son says of the Father: "No man cometh to 317 I, 0 | man cometh to me except the Father draw him," he might 318 I, 0 | life for my sake, except the Father move or draw him." 319 I, 0 | and grateful clinging to the holy will which has been 320 I, 0 | it cannot be denied that the Father drew or moved the 321 I, 0 | the Father drew or moved the Son to death by giving him 322 I, 0 | who does not see that, in the same manner, he gave him 323 I, 0 | his own accord and to take the cup, which he freely drank. 324 I, 0 | it is right to say that the Son spared not himself, 325 I, 0 | it is right to say that the Father, of whom he had this 326 I, 0 | way, also, by following the will received from the Father 327 I, 0 | following the will received from the Father invariably, and of 328 I, 0 | and of his own accord, the Son became obedient to Him, 329 I, 0 | and learned obedience from the things which he suffered; 330 I, 0 | be learned how great was the work to be accomplished 331 I, 0 | compulsion, but freely, follows the will received from God. 332 I, 0 | we can properly explain the Father's desire that the 333 I, 0 | the Father's desire that the Son should die, though these 334 I, 0 | a thing who approves of the desire of another, though 335 I, 0 | pain with fortitude for the accomplishment of some good 336 I, 0 | thing but does not, desires the thing which he does not 337 I, 0 | prevent. Since, therefore, the will of the Son pleased 338 I, 0 | therefore, the will of the Son pleased the Father, 339 I, 0 | will of the Son pleased the Father, and be did not prevent 340 I, 0 | proper to say that he wished the Son to endure death so piously 341 I, 0 | Moreover, he said that the cup must not pass from him, 342 I, 0 | because, as has been said, the world could not otherwise 343 I, 0 | death, rather than that the world should not be saved. 344 I, 0 | those words, viz., to teach the human race that there was 345 I, 0 | explained in accordance with the belief that he died, not 346 I, 0 | praiseworthy as relates to the honor of God, and useful 347 I, 0 | otherwise be effected.~Boso. The question which still troubles 348 I, 0 | still troubles us is, how the death of the Son can be 349 I, 0 | us is, how the death of the Son can be proved reasonable 350 I, 0 | otherwise, it does not seem that the Son ought to desire it, 351 I, 0 | Son ought to desire it, or the Father compel or permit 352 I, 0 | compel or permit it. For the question is, why God could 353 I, 0 | and it is not clear how the death of the Son avails 354 I, 0 | not clear how the death of the Son avails for the salvation 355 I, 0 | death of the Son avails for the salvation of man. For it 356 I, 0 | delights in, or requires, the blood of the innocent, that 357 I, 0 | or requires, the blood of the innocent, that he neither 358 I, 0 | chooses, nor is able, to spare the guilty without the sacrifice 359 I, 0 | spare the guilty without the sacrifice of the innocent.~ 360 I, 0 | without the sacrifice of the innocent.~Anselm.. Since, 361 I, 0 | in this inquiry, you take the place of those who are unwilling 362 I, 0 | do not admit anything in the least unbecoming to be ascribed 363 I, 0 | unbecoming to be ascribed to the Deity, and that we do not 364 I, 0 | and that we do not reject the smallest reason if it be 365 I, 0 | to attribute anything in the least unbecoming to God; 366 I, 0 | overbalanced by a greater, has the force of necessity.~Boso. 367 I, 0 | between us in common.~Anselm.. The question concerns only the 368 I, 0 | The question concerns only the incarnation of God, and 369 I, 0 | Let us suppose, then, that the incarnation of God, and 370 I, 0 | incarnation of God, and the things that we affirm of 371 I, 0 | take for granted, also, the other things, the belief 372 I, 0 | also, the other things, the belief of which is necessary 373 I, 1 | God his due.~Boso. What is the debt which we owe to God?~ 374 I, 1 | creature should be subject to the will of God.~Boso. Nothing 375 I, 1 | more true.~Anselm.. This is the debt which man and angel 376 I, 1 | is, in will; and this is the sole and complete debt of 377 I, 1 | taken away, but, considering the contempt offered, he ought 378 I, 1 | making some compensation for the anguish incurred; so he 379 I, 1 | but must, according to the extent of the injury done, 380 I, 1 | according to the extent of the injury done, make restoration 381 I, 1 | some way satisfactory to the person whom he has dishonored. 382 I, 1 | who sins ought to pay back the honor of which he has robbed 383 I, 1 | robbed God; and this is the satisfaction which every 384 I, 2 | without any payment of the honor taken from him.~Boso. 385 I, 2 | be no difference between the guilty and the not guilty; 386 I, 2 | difference between the guilty and the not guilty; and this is 387 I, 2 | law, so that, according to the requirements of law, the 388 I, 2 | the requirements of law, the measure of award is bestowed 389 I, 2 | is Lord of all; for when the powers of the world rightly 390 I, 2 | for when the powers of the world rightly accomplish 391 I, 2 | it who appointed them for the purpose.~Boso. You have 392 I, 2 | Boso. You have obviated the difficulty which I thought 393 I, 2 | subject to no law, and to the judgment of no one, and 394 I, 2 | does anything improper for the Divine character. Moreover, 395 I, 2 | is impaired, nay, unless the will itself be impaired 396 I, 2 | If God wishes to lie," the meaning is simply this: " 397 I, 2 | meaning is simply this: "If the nature of God is such as 398 I, 2 | except it be understood in the same manner as when we speak 399 I, 2 | be moist;" for neither is the case. Therefore, with regard 400 I, 2 | to these things, to speak the whole truth: If God desires 401 I, 2 | compassion or will to let the sinner go unpunished who 402 I, 2 | no return to God of what the sinner has defrauded him.~ 403 I, 3 | less was to be endured, in the order of things, than that 404 I, 3 | order of things, than that the creature should take away 405 I, 3 | creature should take away the honor due the Creator and 406 I, 3 | take away the honor due the Creator and not restore 407 I, 3 | takes away. ~Anselm.. In the order of things, there is 408 I, 3 | to be endured than that the creature should take away 409 I, 3 | creature should take away the honor due the Creator, and 410 I, 3 | take away the honor due the Creator, and not restore 411 I, 3 | is suffered, viz., that the creature should not restore 412 I, 3 | maintains God's honor in the arrangement of things, and 413 I, 3 | nothing with more justice than the honor of his own dignity.~ 414 I, 3 | satisfaction nor punish the one defrauding him.~Boso. 415 I, 3 | say so.~Anselni. Therefore the honor taken away must be 416 I, 4 | CHAPTER XIV.~How the honor of God exists in the 417 I, 4 | the honor of God exists in the punishment of the wicked. ~ 418 I, 4 | exists in the punishment of the wicked. ~Boso. But I wish 419 I, 4 | to hear from you whether the punishment of the sinner 420 I, 4 | whether the punishment of the sinner is an honor to God, 421 I, 4 | how it is an honor. For if the punishment of the sinner 422 I, 4 | For if the punishment of the sinner is not for God's 423 I, 4 | not for God's honor when the sinner does not pay what 424 I, 4 | seems in contradiction to the things which have been said.~ 425 I, 4 | lose his honor; for either the sinner pays his debt of 426 I, 4 | and thus shows that he is the Lord of man, though man 427 I, 4 | his own, as man transfers the money which he has taken 428 I, 4 | what he takes away serves the purpose of his own honor, 429 I, 4 | by this act he shows that the sinner and all that pertains 430 I, 5 | honor to be violated even in the least degree. ~Boso. What 431 I, 5 | it to be violated even in the least degree? For what is 432 I, 5 | be added to or taken from the honor of God. For this honor 433 I, 5 | injury or change. But as the individual creature preserves, 434 I, 5 | naturally or by reason, the condition belonging, and, 435 I, 5 | especially bound. And when the being chooses what he ought, 436 I, 5 | maintains his own condition in the universe, and the beauty 437 I, 5 | condition in the universe, and the beauty of the universe itself, 438 I, 5 | universe, and the beauty of the universe itself, as far 439 I, 5 | dishonors God, as far as the being himself is concerned, 440 I, 5 | disposal. And he disturbs the order and beauty of the 441 I, 5 | the order and beauty of the universe, as relates to 442 I, 5 | cannot injure nor tarnish the power and majesty of God. 443 I, 5 | which are held together in the circuit of the heavens desire 444 I, 5 | together in the circuit of the heavens desire to be elsewhere 445 I, 5 | be elsewhere than under the heavens, or to be further 446 I, 5 | be further removed from the heavens, there is no place 447 I, 5 | where they can be but under the heavens, nor can they fly 448 I, 5 | heavens, nor can they fly from the heavens without also approaching 449 I, 5 | go, they are still under the heavens; and if they are 450 I, 5 | are only so much nearer to the opposite part. And so, though 451 I, 5 | angel refuse to submit to the Divine will and appointment, 452 I, 5 | commands, he falls into the power of a will that punishes. 453 I, 5 | he goes, it is only under the permission of that will; 454 I, 5 | under infinite wisdom, to the order and beauty of the 455 I, 5 | the order and beauty of the universe before spoken of. 456 I, 5 | many forms of evil, then the satisfaction for sin freely 457 I, 5 | or if this be not given, the exaction of punishment, 458 I, 5 | place and orderly beauty in the same universe. For if Divine 459 I, 5 | wickedness tries to disturb the right appointment, there 460 I, 5 | appointment, there would be, in the very universe which God 461 I, 5 | unseemliness springing from the violation of the beauty 462 I, 5 | springing from the violation of the beauty of arrangement, and 463 I, 5 | as he is in himself; but the creature, as far as he is 464 I, 5 | submits or opposes his will to the will of God.~Boso. I know 465 I, 6 | CHAPTER XVI.~The reason why the number of 466 I, 6 | CHAPTER XVI.~The reason why the number of angels who fell 467 I, 6 | should design to make up for the number of angels that fell, 468 I, 6 | intended to discuss only the incarnation of the Deity, 469 I, 6 | only the incarnation of the Deity, and here you are 470 I, 6 | not angry with me; "for the Lord loveth a cheerful giver;" 471 I, 6 | both now and forever, in the contemplation of God, was 472 I, 6 | fitting. Wherefore, either the angels who fell were made 473 I, 6 | is an absurd idea.~Boso. The truth which you set forth 474 I, 6 | Boso. Doubtless, then, the number must be restored.~ 475 I, 7 | other angels cannot take the place of those who fell. ~ 476 I, 7 | Anselm.. When you shall see the difficulty of our restoration, 477 I, 7 | restoration, you will understand the impossibility of theirs. 478 I, 7 | apparent inconsistency with the completeness of the first 479 I, 7 | with the completeness of the first creation), because 480 I, 7 | they ought to be such as the former angels would have 481 I, 7 | had they never sinned. But the first angels in that case 482 I, 7 | without ever witnessing the punishment of sin; which, 483 I, 7 | sin; which, in respect to the others who were substituted 484 I, 7 | praise, if one has never seen the punishment of sin, and the 485 I, 7 | the punishment of sin, and the other forever witnesses 486 I, 7 | good angels are upheld by the fall of evil angels, but 487 I, 7 | condemned together, had the good sinned with the bad, 488 I, 7 | had the good sinned with the bad, so, had the unholy 489 I, 7 | sinned with the bad, so, had the unholy stood firm with the 490 I, 7 | the unholy stood firm with the holy, they would have been 491 I, 7 | upheld. For, if, without the fall of a part, the rest 492 I, 7 | without the fall of a part, the rest could not be upheld, 493 I, 7 | his punishment to uphold the rest; but either of these 494 I, 7 | would have been upheld in the same manner as those who 495 I, 7 | could, when treating of the reason why God did not bestow 496 I, 7 | bestow perseverance upon the devil.~Boso. You have proved 497 I, 7 | Boso. You have proved that the evil angels must be restored 498 I, 7 | angels must be restored from the human race; and from this 499 I, 7 | reasoning it appears that the number of men chosen will 500 I, 8 | evil angels. ~Anselm.. If the angels, before any of them