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 501 I, 8 |             were only made to supply the place of the lost angels;
 502 I, 8 |          made to supply the place of the lost angels; and it is plain
 503 I, 8 |         number were not found in all the angels together, then both
 504 I, 8 |           angels together, then both the loss and the original deficiency
 505 I, 8 |               then both the loss and the original deficiency must
 506 I, 8 |             made not only to restore the diminished number, but also
 507 I, 8 |         number, but also to complete the imperfect number.~Boso.
 508 I, 8 |     imperfect number.~Boso. Which is the better theory, that angels
 509 I, 8 |             If man was created after the fall of evil angels, as
 510 I, 8 |           angels, as some understand the account in Genesis, I do
 511 I, 8 |              possible, I think, that the angels should have been
 512 I, 8 |              God deferred completing the number, as he does even
 513 I, 8 |             would restore it. But if the whole creation took place
 514 I, 8 |             there would be more than the complete number required.
 515 I, 8 |              were created at one and the same time, it should seem
 516 I, 8 |         should seem that angels, and the first two human beings,
 517 I, 8 |              that, if no angel fell, the deficiency alone should
 518 I, 8 |            made up, but if any fell, the lost part should be restored;
 519 I, 8 |           were, justify God, and put the devil to silence, if he
 520 I, 8 |         would it justify God against the devil, and even against
 521 I, 8 |            of a mortal race, yet, in the elect, it would rise from
 522 I, 8 |        exalted above that from which the devil was fallen, as far
 523 I, 8 |           equal, were advanced after the overthrow of the evil, because
 524 I, 8 |      advanced after the overthrow of the evil, because they persevered.
 525 I, 8 |              I am rather inclined to the belief that there was not,
 526 I, 8 |          angels necessary to perfect the celestial state; since,
 527 I, 8 |           angels were not created at the same time, this is possible;
 528 I, 8 |              if they were created at the same time, which is the
 529 I, 8 |              the same time, which is the opinion of the majority,
 530 I, 8 |              which is the opinion of the majority, because we read: "
 531 I, 8 |              things at once." But if the perfection of the created
 532 I, 8 |             But if the perfection of the created universe is to be
 533 I, 8 |           consisting, not so much in the number of beings, as in
 534 I, 8 |              number of beings, as in the number of natures; it follows
 535 I, 8 |            should not dare affirm of the nature of the smallest reptile.
 536 I, 8 |              affirm of the nature of the smallest reptile. Wherefore,
 537 I, 8 |            and not merely to restore the number of beings possessing
 538 I, 8 |              have had their place in the celestial kingdom. And hence
 539 I, 8 |           any should continue beyond the perfect number.~Boso. You
 540 I, 8 |        supports, in no small degree, the opinion that angels were
 541 I, 8 |           man been made only to fill the place of the lost angels,
 542 I, 8 |            only to fill the place of the lost angels, it is plain
 543 I, 8 |            any one shall ask: "Since the elect rejoice as much over
 544 I, 8 |           elect rejoice as much over the fall of angels as over their
 545 I, 8 |              own exaltation, because the one can never take place
 546 I, 8 |             never take place without the other; how can they be justified
 547 I, 8 |          that angels are restored by the substitution of men, if
 548 I, 8 |        substitution of men, if they (the angels) would have remained
 549 I, 8 |            viz., from rejoicing over the fall of others?" We reply:
 550 I, 8 |             this fault!~Boso. Is not the case similar to that of
 551 I, 8 |              case similar to that of the Gentiles who were called
 552 I, 8 |           called unto faith, because the Jews rejected it?~Anselm..
 553 I, 8 |             it?~Anselm.. No; for had the Jews all believed, yet the
 554 I, 8 |           the Jews all believed, yet the Gentiles would have been
 555 I, 8 |          accepted of him." But since the Jews despised the apostles,
 556 I, 8 |              since the Jews despised the apostles, this was the immediate
 557 I, 8 |      despised the apostles, this was the immediate occasion of their
 558 I, 8 |         occasion of their turning to the Gentiles.~Boso. I see no
 559 I, 8 |         Whence, to be sure, but from the fact that each individual
 560 I, 8 |            would never have attained the place where he now is?~Anselm..
 561 I, 8 |              for one to rejoice over the doom of another.~Boso. So
 562 I, 8 |              were created to restore the part diminished, or to make
 563 I, 8 |              was not yet complete in the number necessary to constitute
 564 I, 8 |              necessary to constitute the state? But all are sure
 565 I, 8 |             were made with a view to the perfection of that kingdom.~
 566 I, 8 |           larger number than that of the fallen angels, no one can
 567 I, 8 |           have cause to rejoice over the perdition of another.~Boso.
 568 I, 8 |            are more men elected than the number of fallen angels,
 569 I, 8 |             number of fallen angels, the incongruity will not follow
 570 I, 8 |             Anselm.. We believe that the material substance of the
 571 I, 8 |            the material substance of the world must be renewed, and
 572 I, 8 |            will not take place until the number of the elect is accomplished,
 573 I, 8 |            place until the number of the elect is accomplished, and
 574 I, 8 |           planned to perfect both at the same time, in order that
 575 I, 8 |             same time, in order that the inferior nature, which knew
 576 I, 8 |              not be perfected before the superior nature which ought
 577 I, 8 |         ought to enjoy God; and that the inferior, being renewed
 578 I, 8 |           inferior, being renewed at the same time with the superior,
 579 I, 8 |        renewed at the same time with the superior, might, as it were,
 580 I, 8 |             own manner, so that what the will effects in the rational
 581 I, 8 |             what the will effects in the rational nature of its own
 582 I, 8 |            its own accord, this also the irrational creature naturally
 583 I, 8 |          creature naturally shows by the arrangement of God. For
 584 I, 8 |            we are wont to rejoice in the fame of our ancestors, as
 585 I, 8 |            our ancestors, as when on the birthdays of the saints
 586 I, 8 |             when on the birthdays of the saints we delight with festive
 587 I, 8 |         opinion derives support from the fact that, had not Adam
 588 I, 8 |        sinned, God might yet put off the completion of that state
 589 I, 8 |       completion of that state until the number of men which he designed
 590 I, 8 |            to perfection, at one and the same time, that intelligent
 591 I, 8 |            state was not complete in the number of angels before
 592 I, 8 |              number of angels before the destruction of the wicked,
 593 I, 8 |            before the destruction of the wicked, but God was waiting
 594 I, 8 |              when he should renovate the material nature of the world;
 595 I, 8 |      renovate the material nature of the world; or that, if that
 596 I, 8 |        sinned, until that renewal of the world to which we look forward;
 597 I, 8 |             not be deferred so long, the renewal of the world must
 598 I, 8 |              so long, the renewal of the world must be hastened that
 599 I, 8 |           events might take place at the same time. But that God
 600 I, 8 |            should determine to renew the world immediately after
 601 I, 8 |              made, and to destroy in the very beginning those things
 602 I, 8 |             on this account, because the renewal of a world just
 603 I, 8 |            off their confirmation to the future renewing of the world
 604 I, 8 |            to the future renewing of the world seems improper, since
 605 I, 8 |           confirmed them, as well as the angels who persevered. For,
 606 I, 8 |             men were to attain, when the number taken from among
 607 I, 8 |              he has yielded to it at the first persuasion, than holiness
 608 I, 8 |              he has adhered to it in the original trial? For as human
 609 I, 8 |            nature, being included in the person of our first parents,
 610 I, 8 |         wholly won over to sin (with the single exception of that
 611 I, 8 |            equally able to save from the sin of Adam), so had they
 612 I, 8 |            It therefore remains that the celestial state was not
 613 I, 8 |    respecting God: "He has appointed the bounds of the people according
 614 I, 8 |              appointed the bounds of the people according to the
 615 I, 8 |              the people according to the number of the children of
 616 I, 8 |           according to the number of the children of Israel;" which
 617 I, 8 |              which some, because for the expression "children of
 618 I, 8 |            explain in this way, that the number of elect men taken
 619 I, 8 |          This is not discordant with the previous opinion, if it
 620 I, 8 |            if it be not certain that the number of angels who fell
 621 I, 8 |         number of angels who fell is the same as that of those who
 622 I, 8 |             needs be substituted for the evil angels, and it is possible
 623 I, 8 |           possible for them to equal the number of the good angels,
 624 I, 8 |          them to equal the number of the good angels, in that case
 625 I, 8 |     certainty than as my opinion for the present, until God makes
 626 I, 8 |       anything which plainly opposes the Holy Scriptures, it is false;
 627 I, 8 |             be more men elected than the number of the lost angels,
 628 I, 8 |           elected than the number of the lost angels, and incline
 629 I, 8 |           these opinions rather than the other, I think the soul
 630 I, 8 |              than the other, I think the soul is not in danger; if,
 631 I, 8 |      questions like this, we explain the Divine words so as to make
 632 I, 8 |             to decide, beyond doubt, the opinion that should be held,
 633 I, 8 |           censure to be given. As to the passage which you spoke
 634 I, 8 |         spoke of: "He has determined the bounds of the people (or
 635 I, 8 |             determined the bounds of the people (or tribes) according
 636 I, 8 |              or tribes) according to the number of the angels of
 637 I, 8 |           according to the number of the angels of God;" or as another
 638 I, 8 |    translation has it: "according to the number of the children of
 639 I, 8 |           according to the number of the children of Israel;" since
 640 I, 8 |             translations either mean the same thing, or are different,
 641 I, 8 |         elect men are included, even the whole celestial kingdom.
 642 I, 8 |              both expressions, it is the same as if only "angels
 643 I, 8 |           God" had been used; but if the whole heavenly kingdom were
 644 I, 8 |      heavenly kingdom were included, the meaning is, that a people,
 645 I, 8 |              that a people, that is, the throng of elect men, is
 646 I, 8 |            stage of existence, until the appointed number of that
 647 I, 8 |           men together, are meant by the expression "children of
 648 I, 8 |           God," because they imitate the life of angels, and they
 649 I, 8 |             angels of God. Therefore the confessors or martyrs are
 650 I, 8 |        declares and bears witness to the truth, he is a messenger
 651 I, 8 |           say that God has appointed the bounds of the people according
 652 I, 8 |              appointed the bounds of the people according to the
 653 I, 8 |              the people according to the number of elect men, because
 654 I, 8 |           increase among them, until the number of elect men is accomplished;
 655 I, 8 |  accomplished; and when that occurs, the birth of men, which takes
 656 I, 8 |              that "God has appointed the bounds of the people according
 657 I, 8 |              appointed the bounds of the people according to the
 658 I, 8 |              the people according to the number of the angels of
 659 I, 8 |           according to the number of the angels of God," viz., either
 660 I, 8 |              exist upon earth, until the number of angels is completed
 661 I, 8 |       explanation: "he has appointed the bounds of the people according
 662 I, 8 |              appointed the bounds of the people according to the
 663 I, 8 |              the people according to the number of the children of
 664 I, 8 |           according to the number of the children of Israel," that
 665 I, 8 |               as I said above, until the number of holy men is completed.
 666 I, 8 |              it does not follow that the number of lost angels was
 667 I, 8 |           find means of invalidating the reasons given above, which
 668 I, 8 |             not among angels, before the fall, that perfect number
 669 I, 8 |            more men to be saved than the number of evil angels.~Boso.
 670 I, 8 |           you to these remarks about the angels, for it has not been
 671 I, 9 |              fitting for God to fill the places of the fallen angels
 672 I, 9 |            God to fill the places of the fallen angels from among
 673 I, 9 |       Therefore there ought to be in the heavenly empire as many
 674 I, 9 |             taken as substitutes for the angels as would correspond
 675 I, 9 |             as would correspond with the number whose place they
 676 I, 9 |          either could not accomplish the good which he begun, or
 677 I, 9 |            go unpunished, may become the equal of an angel who has
 678 I, 9 |          Consider, also, leaving out the question of equality with
 679 I, 9 |            question of equality with the angels, whether God ought,
 680 I, 9 |       circumstances, to raise man to the same or a similar kind of
 681 I, 9 |           determined to commit it to the treasury of his dearest
 682 I, 9 |            from his hand and cast in the mire, though he might have
 683 I, 9 |              taking it all soiled by the mire and unwashed, should
 684 I, 9 |         without sin, and destined to the society of angels, and allowed
 685 I, 9 |       society of angels, and allowed the devil, inflamed with envy,
 686 I, 9 |          with envy, to cast him into the mire of sin, though truly
 687 I, 9 |           had God chosen to restrain the devil, the devil could not
 688 I, 9 |        chosen to restrain the devil, the devil could not have tempted
 689 I, 9 |            restore man, stained with the defilement of sin, unwashed,
 690 I, 9 |           out?~Boso. I dare not deny the aptness of your comparison,
 691 I, 9 |         without voluntary payment of the debt, God can neither pass
 692 I, 9 |              God can neither pass by the sin unpunished, nor can
 693 I, 9 |              sin unpunished, nor can the sinner attain that happiness,
 694 I, 9 |               and every nation prays the God of its faith to put
 695 I, 9 |              properly connected with the payment; for God owes no
 696 I, 9 |          think you will see yourself the answer to your question.~
 697 I, 9 |          this matter suffices me for the present. And, moreover,
 698 I, 9 |             without satisfaction for the trespass, that, even were
 699 I, 0 |             is determined, that even the smallest unfitness is impossible
 700 I, 0 |           amid abstinence and toils, the delights and ease of this
 701 I, 0 |            should not reckon this as the debt which you owe for sin.
 702 I, 0 |             such desire of attaining the true end of your being,
 703 I, 0 |              of your being, which is the meaning of prayer, and such
 704 I, 0 |         desire for its own sake, and the want of which at present,
 705 I, 0 |            at present, together with the great danger of never getting
 706 I, 0 |             pleasures such as seduce the mind from real rest and
 707 I, 0 |            as you think suffices for the accomplishment of that object.
 708 I, 0 |        object. But you ought to view the gifts which you bestow as
 709 I, 0 |             or his, but you are both the servants of one Lord, made
 710 I, 0 |         judgment over him when it is the peculiar right of God, the
 711 I, 0 |           the peculiar right of God, the judge of all. But what do
 712 I, 0 |             that I may be saved, and the more, since we read that
 713 I, 0 |          more, since we read that if the sinner turns from his iniquity
 714 I, 1 |              as one look contrary to the will of God.~Boso. Did I
 715 I, 1 |              I not hear you question the thing, I should suppose
 716 I, 1 |            have not as yet estimated the great burden of sin.~Boso.
 717 I, 1 |              should find yourself in the sight of God, and one said
 718 I, 1 |           Look thither;" and God, on the other hand, should say: "
 719 I, 1 |           give that look contrary to the will of God.~Boso. I can
 720 I, 1 |           were necessary either that the whole universe, except God
 721 I, 1 |             so small a thing against the will of God?~Boso. When
 722 I, 1 |           God?~Boso. When I consider the action itself, it appears
 723 I, 1 |             I view it as contrary to the will of God, I know of nothing
 724 I, 1 |             him.~Anselm.. This is in the case of man, who often does
 725 I, 1 |           that I ought not to oppose the will of God even to preserve
 726 I, 1 |              of God even to preserve the whole creation.~Anselm..
 727 I, 1 |            manner, my reply would be the same.~Anselm.. You cannot
 728 I, 1 |              it happen that you gave the look contrary to God's will,
 729 I, 1 |         whenever we knowingly oppose the will of God even in the
 730 I, 1 |              the will of God even in the slightest thing; since we
 731 I, 1 |       restore something greater than the amount of that obligation,
 732 I, 1 |         restrain you from committing the sin.~Boso. Reason seems
 733 I, 1 |             demand this, and to make the contrary wholly impossible.~
 734 I, 1 |            any being bound at all by the debt of sin, because He
 735 I, 1 |             despair, were it not for the consolation of faith.~Anselm..
 736 I, 2 |           himself to be conquered by the devil; for which be can
 737 I, 2 |              paradise, as it were in the place of God, between God
 738 I, 2 |              of God, between God and the devil, to conquer the devil
 739 I, 2 |            and the devil, to conquer the devil by not yielding to
 740 I, 2 |      temptation, and so to vindicate the honor of God and put the
 741 I, 2 |             the honor of God and put the devil to shame, because
 742 I, 2 |            not sin though tempted by the devil, while the devil,
 743 I, 2 |          tempted by the devil, while the devil, though stronger and
 744 I, 2 |        himself to be brought over to the will of the devil, contrary
 745 I, 2 |          brought over to the will of the devil, contrary to the will
 746 I, 2 |            of the devil, contrary to the will and honor of God.~Boso.
 747 I, 2 |             if it be not contrary to the honor of God for man to
 748 I, 2 |            honored God by overcoming the devil, as he dishonored
 749 I, 2 |        dishonored him in yielding to the devil. Now the victory ought
 750 I, 2 |           yielding to the devil. Now the victory ought to be of this
 751 I, 2 |          vigor, he freely yielded to the devil to sin, and on this
 752 I, 2 |              account justly incurred the penalty of death; so, in
 753 I, 2 |           himself, he should conquer the devil by the pain of death,
 754 I, 2 |          should conquer the devil by the pain of death, while wholly
 755 I, 2 |             be done, so long as from the deadly effect of the first
 756 I, 2 |            from the deadly effect of the first transgression, man
 757 I, 2 |               Boso. Again I say that the thing is impossible, and
 758 I, 2 |              be justly effected, and the impossibility is the same.~
 759 I, 2 |             and the impossibility is the same.~Boso. You have already
 760 I, 3 |            himself to be overcome by the devil?~Boso. Go on to mention,
 761 I, 3 |          mention, as you have begun, the evil things which can be
 762 I, 3 |             that.~Anselm.. Listen to the voice of strict justice;
 763 I, 3 |           sin, unless, by overcoming the devil, man restore to God
 764 I, 3 |           himself to be conquered by the devil; so that, as by this
 765 I, 3 |            by this conquest over man the devil took what belonged
 766 I, 3 |         belonged to God, and God was the loser, so in man's victory
 767 I, 3 |           loser, so in man's victory the devil may be despoiled,
 768 I, 3 |             in this way: that, as in the fall of man all human nature
 769 I, 3 |            of such a race to fill up the number in his heavenly kingdom;
 770 I, 3 |            as are needed to complete the number which man was made
 771 I, 3 |               from all these things, the compassion of God and the
 772 I, 3 |            the compassion of God and the hope of man seems to fail,
 773 I, 4 |          unjust?~Anselm.. Indeed, if the origin of his inability
 774 I, 4 |             this very impotence lies the fault, as it does not lessen
 775 I, 4 |         fault, as it does not lessen the sin, neither does it excuse
 776 I, 4 |            himself; and suppose that the slave, despising his master'
 777 I, 4 |         warning, throws himself into the ditch before pointed out,
 778 I, 4 |         utterly unable to accomplish the work assigned; think you
 779 I, 4 |       obligation not to sin, nor pay the debt which be has incurred
 780 I, 4 |           and avoid sin, nor restore the debt which he owes on account
 781 I, 4 |           inability. For not to have the power which one ought to
 782 I, 4 |          which one ought to have, is the same thing as to have the
 783 I, 4 |            the same thing as to have the inability which one ought
 784 I, 4 |          excuse man from paying; for the result of sin cannot excuse
 785 I, 4 |          result of sin cannot excuse the sin itself.~Boso. This argument
 786 I, 4 |             a merciful God remits to the suppliant his debt, because
 787 I, 4 |             be given up even to save the whole universe besides God;
 788 I, 4 |          ought freely to render, for the reason that man cannot repay
 789 I, 4 |            restore freely, He abates the punishment and makes man
 790 I, 4 |             truly such compassion on the part of God is wholly contrary
 791 I, 4 |            God is wholly contrary to the Divine justice, which allows
 792 I, 4 |            nothing but punishment as the recompense of sin. Therefore,
 793 I, 4 |           were true that God pardons the man who does not pay his
 794 I, 4 |          happy.~Boso. If God follows the method of justice, there
 795 I, 4 |               there is no escape for the miserable wretch, and God'
 796 I, 4 |              and beast, according to the multitude of his mercies.
 797 I, 4 |              I have amply proved, by the reasons given above, that
 798 I, 4 |           not to take place, save by the payment of the debt incurred
 799 I, 4 |               save by the payment of the debt incurred by sin, according
 800 I, 4 |        incurred by sin, according to the extent of sin. And if you
 801 I, 4 |       understood. But even if one of the whole number be confirmed
 802 I, 4 |         compassion?~Anselm.. This is the question which you ought
 803 I, 4 |       speaking, who have no faith in the need of Christ for man's
 804 I, 5 |              to show him in what way the thing is true which he holds
 805 I, 5 |            impossible, on account of the same unfitness, that no
 806 I, 5 |             must be found apart from the Christian faith, which no
 807 I, 5 |               or else we must accept the Christian doctrine. For
 808 I, 5 |              questioned, even though the method of it be not understood.~
 809 I, 5 |              but to have you show me the reason for my confidence.
 810 I, 5 |              by force of. reasoning, the fitness of all those things
 811 I, 5 |            of all those things which the Catholic faith enjoins upon
 812 I, 5 |               and how they avail for the salvation of man, and how
 813 I, 5 |               to make your reasoning the clearer, begin at the beginning,
 814 I, 5 |      reasoning the clearer, begin at the beginning, so as to rest
 815 I, 5 |           for you do not spare me in the least, nor consider the
 816 I, 5 |              the least, nor consider the weakness of my skill, when
 817 I, 5 |            help. But let us separate the things which remain to be
 818 II, 1|            God, so as to be happy in the enjoyment of God. ~Anselm..
 819 II, 1|           good and evil, and between the greater and the lesser good.
 820 II, 1|              between the greater and the lesser good. Otherwise it
 821 II, 1|             manner is it proved that the intelligent creature received
 822 II, 1|        intelligent creature received the power of discernment for
 823 II, 1|          choose good, and especially the greater good. For else in
 824 II, 1|             viz., to love and choose the highest good supremely,
 825 II, 1|             and nothing else; for if the highest good were chosen
 826 II, 1|              and not itself would be the thing loved. But intelligent
 827 II, 1|             order to choose and love the highest good, then it was
 828 II, 1|          holy in loving and choosing the supreme good, for which
 829 II, 1|              to be happy in enjoying the supreme good, which is God.
 830 II, 3|               How man will rise with the same body which he has in
 831 II, 3|           world. ~Anselm.. From this the future resurrection of the
 832 II, 3|           the future resurrection of the dead is clearly proved.
 833 II, 3|            to be perfectly restored, the restoration should make
 834 II, 3|           have been transferred with the same body to an immortal
 835 II, 3|            not necessary as respects the reprobate?~Anselm.. We know
 836 II, 5|             CHAPTER V.~How, although the thing may be necessary,
 837 II, 5|    compulsory necessity; and what is the nature of that necessity
 838 II, 5|            as it were compelled, for the sake of avoiding what is
 839 II, 5|             is unbecoming, to secure the salvation of man. How, then,
 840 II, 5|            also a necessity by which the favor deserves still greater
 841 II, 5|          freely places himself under the necessity of benefiting
 842 II, 5|          deserves greater thanks for the favor. For this should not
 843 II, 5|           you do give to-morrow with the same willingness; though
 844 II, 5|             a liar; notwithstanding, the recipient of your favor
 845 II, 5|           yourself his debtor before the time of giving it: just
 846 II, 5|              perform, lest he suffer the judgment of an apostate,
 847 II, 5|             he has not only given up the life of the world, but also
 848 II, 5|            only given up the life of the world, but also his personal
 849 II, 5|            his personal liberty, for the sake of God; and he cannot
 850 II, 5|          life of necessity, but with the same freedom with which
 851 II, 5|           freedom with which he took the vow. Much more, therefore,
 852 II, 5|            bound himself to complete the good which he had begun.
 853 II, 5|              that God does this from the necessity of maintaining
 854 II, 5|             no more than this, viz., the immutability of his honor,
 855 II, 5|             Yet we may say, although the whole work which God does
 856 II, 5|   unchangeable goodness, to complete the work which he has begun.~
 857 II, 6|             VI.~How no being, except the God-man, can make the atonement
 858 II, 6|         except the God-man, can make the atonement by which man is
 859 II, 6|           cannot be effected, except the price paid to God for the
 860 II, 6|            the price paid to God for the sin of man be something
 861 II, 6|           something greater than all the universe besides God.~Boso.
 862 II, 6|          valuable than all things in the possession of God, must
 863 II, 6|         other wise man does not make the satisfaction.~Boso. Nothing
 864 II, 6|       therefore, as it appears, that the heavenly kingdom be made
 865 II, 6|            cannot be effected unless the aforesaid satisfaction be
 866 II, 6|            make, it is necessary for the God-man to make it.~Boso.
 867 II, 7|              How necessary it is for the same being to be perfect
 868 II, 7|           and perfect man. ~Anselm.. The Divine and human natures
 869 II, 7|            cannot alternate, so that the Divine should become human
 870 II, 7|        Divine should become human or the human Divine; nor can they
 871 II, 7|              should be produced from the two which is neither wholly
 872 II, 7|            either to be changed into the other, it would in that
 873 II, 7|             third nature sprung from the combination of the two (
 874 II, 7|              from the combination of the two (as from two animals,
 875 II, 7|             does not preserve entire the species of either parent,
 876 II, 7|            be God nor man. Therefore the God-man, whom we require
 877 II, 7|            by a change from one into the other, nor by an imperfect
 878 II, 7|              one may be Divine while the other is human, and yet
 879 II, 7|             that which is God not be the same with that which is
 880 II, 7|            impossible for both to do the work necessary to be accomplished.
 881 II, 7|             Therefore, in order that the God-man may perform this,
 882 II, 7|           this, it is necessary that the same being should perfect
 883 II, 7|           then, it is necessary that the God-man preserve the completeness
 884 II, 7|            that the God-man preserve the completeness of each nature,
 885 II, 7|      otherwise it is impossible that the same being should be very
 886 II, 8|         behoved God to take a man of the race of Adam, and born of
 887 II, 8|          this man will not belong to the human family, which descended
 888 II, 8|            man to make atonement for the sin of man, it is also necessary
 889 II, 8|          necessary that he who makes the atonement should be the
 890 II, 8|              the atonement should be the very being who has sinned,
 891 II, 8|           has sinned, or else one of the same race. Otherwise, neither
 892 II, 8|          ought to make atonement for the sin of men. And, since they
 893 II, 8|              have stood firm without the support of any other being,
 894 II, 8|           any other being, so, after the fall, the same race must
 895 II, 8|           being, so, after the fall, the same race must rise and
 896 II, 8|        itself. For, whoever restores the race to its place, it will
 897 II, 8|            woman out of man, that by the union of both sexes there
 898 II, 8|             man alone. Wherefore, if the race of Adam be reinstated
 899 II, 8|       reinstated by any being not of the same race, it will not be
 900 II, 8|            therefore, necessary that the man by whom Adam's race
 901 II, 8|              proposed to do, this is the necessary result.~Anselm..
 902 II, 8|          Anselm.. Let us now examine the question, whether the human
 903 II, 8|        examine the question, whether the human nature taken by God
 904 II, 8|               than if springing from the union of both, as do all
 905 II, 8|          either of man and woman, in the common way; or neither of
 906 II, 8|               beyond all doubt, that the God-man should be born of
 907 II, 8|            is that, as man's sin and the cause of our condemnation
 908 II, 8|              sprung from a woman, so the cure of sin and the source
 909 II, 8|               so the cure of sin and the source of our salvation
 910 II, 8|             not despair of attaining the inheritance of the blessed,
 911 II, 8|         attaining the inheritance of the blessed, because that so
 912 II, 8|          which brought all evil upon the race, it is much more appropriate
 913 II, 8|              that a virgin should be the occasion of all good. And
 914 II, 8|              a woman without man. Of the pictures which can be superadded
 915 II, 8|     superadded to this, showing that the God-man ought to be born
 916 II, 9|         CHAPTER IX.~How of necessity the Word only can unite in one
 917 II, 9|              shall take upon himself the nature of man. For a plurality
 918 II, 9|          persons cannot take one and the same man into a unity of
 919 II, 9|             and man, and in which of the Divine persons this ought
 920 II, 9|           far as I think needful for the present inquiry, in a letter
 921 II, 9|              inquiry, in a letter on the Incarnation of the Word,
 922 II, 9|         letter on the Incarnation of the Word, addressed to my lord,
 923 II, 9|          Word, addressed to my lord, the Pope Urban.~Boso. Yet briefly
 924 II, 9|           glance at this matter, why the person of the Son should
 925 II, 9|            matter, why the person of the Son should be incarnated
 926 II, 9|       incarnated rather than that of the Father or the Holy Spirit.~
 927 II, 9|           than that of the Father or the Holy Spirit.~Anselm.. If
 928 II, 9|           Spirit.~Anselm.. If one of the other persons be incarnated,
 929 II, 9|            there will be two sons in the Trinity, viz., the Son of
 930 II, 9|           sons in the Trinity, viz., the Son of God, who is the Son
 931 II, 9|               the Son of God, who is the Son before the incarnation,
 932 II, 9|           God, who is the Son before the incarnation, and he also
 933 II, 9|     incarnation, and he also who, by the incarnation, will be the
 934 II, 9|             the incarnation, will be the son of the virgin; and among
 935 II, 9|      incarnation, will be the son of the virgin; and among the persons
 936 II, 9|             of the virgin; and among the persons which ought always
 937 II, 9|            an inequality as respects the dignity of birth. For the
 938 II, 9|            the dignity of birth. For the one born of God will have
 939 II, 9|         birth than he who is born of the virgin. Likewise, if the
 940 II, 9|             the virgin. Likewise, if the Father become incarnate,
 941 II, 9|             will be two grandsons in the Trinity; for the Father,
 942 II, 9|        grandsons in the Trinity; for the Father, by assuming humanity,
 943 II, 9|           assuming humanity, will be the grandson of the parents
 944 II, 9|              will be the grandson of the parents of the virgin, and
 945 II, 9|           grandson of the parents of the virgin, and the Word, though
 946 II, 9|           parents of the virgin, and the Word, though having nothing
 947 II, 9|             do with man, will yet be the grandson of the virgin,
 948 II, 9|          will yet be the grandson of the virgin, since he will be
 949 II, 9|             virgin, since he will be the son of her son. But all
 950 II, 9|    incongruous and do not pertain to the incarnation of the Word.
 951 II, 9|        pertain to the incarnation of the Word. And there is yet another
 952 II, 9|          renders it more fitting for the Son to become incarnate
 953 II, 9|             to become incarnate than the other persons. It is, that
 954 II, 9|             persons. It is, that for the Son to pray to the Father
 955 II, 9|          that for the Son to pray to the Father is more proper than
 956 II, 9|              for any other person of the Trinity to supplicate his
 957 II, 9|             whom he was to pray, and the devil, whom he was to vanquish,
 958 II, 9|             were, especially against the person of the Son, who is
 959 II, 9|     especially against the person of the Son, who is believed to
 960 II, 9|           Son, who is believed to be the very image of God. Wherefore
 961 II, 9|              image of God. Wherefore the punishment or pardon of
 962 II, 9|             to him upon whom chiefly the injury was inflicted. Since,
 963 II, 9|           necessary conclusion, that the Divine and human natures
 964 II, 9|           more fitting in respect to the person of the Word than
 965 II, 9|             respect to the person of the Word than the other persons,
 966 II, 9|              person of the Word than the other persons, we determine
 967 II, 9|       persons, we determine that God the Word must unite with man
 968 II, 9|             man in one person.~Boso. The way by which you lead me
 969 II, 9|            cannot deviate from it to the right or left.~Anselm..
 970 II, 9|             we have no power to keep the way of truth.~ ~
 971 II, 0|             one who never existed in the manner we have spoken hitherto,
 972 II, 0|           possible for him to commit the sin of lying? For, when
 973 II, 0|          lying? For, when he says to the Jews, of his Father: "If
 974 II, 0|          this sentence, makes use of the words : "I know him not,"
 975 II, 0|            four words, or expressing the same thing differently,
 976 II, 0|           Anselm.. All power follows the will. For, when I say that
 977 II, 0|     understood, if I choose. For, if the will be not implied as acting,
 978 II, 0|             power, but necessity and the power of another; since
 979 II, 0|          could not wish to lie, none the less can it be said that
 980 II, 0|   necessarily holy.~Anselm.. Are not the angels worthy of praise,
 981 II, 0|        present inability to sin from the fact that when they could
 982 II, 0|          refusing to sin when he had the power? Must not he be praised
 983 II, 0|              I speak falsely. If, on the other hand, I say that he
 984 II, 0|            reasoning with respect to the angels.~Anselm.. The angels
 985 II, 0|              to the angels.~Anselm.. The angels are not to be praised
 986 II, 0|             and to do a thing is but the same as not to prevent it,
 987 II, 0|              power. When, therefore, the angel could depart from
 988 II, 0|             holiness of himself (for the creature cannot have it
 989 II, 0|             of all to be praised for the good things which he possesses
 990 II, 0|           will have what it has from the Divine nature, yet it will
 991 II, 0|           have it from itself, since the two natures will be united
 992 II, 0|            holiness. But now I think the question arises, since God
 993 II, 0|            for any one of them to be the same with God, as we say
 994 II, 0|             ask why he did not bring the three persons, or at least
 995 II, 0|           three persons, or at least the Word, into unity with men
 996 II, 0|          Boso. I blush to have asked the question. Go on with what
 997 II, 1|         mortality does not inhere in the essential nature of man. ~
 998 II, 1|           think mortality inheres in the essential nature of man,
 999 II, 1|             as really man; and, when the dying rise again, incorruptible,
1000 II, 1|        happiness accrues to him from the one, and misery from the