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 501 I, 8 |           that there will continue to be a people in this stage
 502 I, 8 |           of lost angels was equal to that of those who persevered.
 503 I, 8 |         affirms this, he will have to find means of invalidating
 504 I, 8 |            that there are more men to be saved than the number
 505 I, 8 |            regret that I urged you to these remarks about the
 506 I, 9 |             It was fitting for God to fill the places of the fallen
 507 I, 9 |              Therefore there ought to be in the heavenly empire
 508 I, 9 |            never made satisfaction to God for his sin, but only
 509 I, 9 |             but only been suffered to go unpunished, may become
 510 I, 9 |           will not suffer man thus to be raised to an equality
 511 I, 9 |       suffer man thus to be raised to an equality with holy beings.~
 512 I, 9 |          under such circumstances, to raise man to the same or
 513 I, 9 |        circumstances, to raise man to the same or a similar kind
 514 I, 9 |         opinion, and I will attend to it as well as I can.~Anselm..
 515 I, 9 |             and that he determined to commit it to the treasury
 516 I, 9 |            determined to commit it to the treasury of his dearest
 517 I, 9 |         What if he should allow it to be struck from his hand
 518 I, 9 |             should commit it again to his beautiful and loved
 519 I, 9 |         would it not be far better to keep and preserve his pearl
 520 I, 9 |      preserve his pearl pure, than to have it polluted?~Anselm..
 521 I, 9 |          without sin, and destined to the society of angels, and
 522 I, 9 |         devil, inflamed with envy, to cast him into the mire of
 523 I, 9 |       consent? For, had God chosen to restrain the devil, the
 524 I, 9 |           satisfaction, and always to remain so; should He restore
 525 I, 9 |      should He restore him at once to paradise, from which he
 526 I, 9 |          your comparison, were God to do this, and therefore do
 527 I, 9 |           Boso. I am wholly unable to refute your reasoning. But
 528 I, 9 |        reasoning. But what say you to this: that we pray God, "
 529 I, 9 |         prays the God of its faith to put away its sins. For,
 530 I, 9 |           debt, why do we pray God to put it away? Is not God
 531 I, 9 |            away? Is not God unjust to demand what has already
 532 I, 9 |             it does not become man to treat with God as with an
 533 I, 9 |          is not now needful for me to answer you. For when you
 534 I, 9 |            see yourself the answer to your question.~Boso. Your
 535 I, 9 |             Your reply with regard to this matter suffices me
 536 I, 0 |            That satisfaction ought to be proportionate to guilt;
 537 I, 0 |          ought to be proportionate to guilt; and that man is of
 538 I, 0 |           man is of himself unable to accomplish this. ~Anselm..
 539 I, 0 |            should be proportionate to guilt.~Boso. Otherwise sin
 540 I, 0 |          Anselm.. What do you give to God in all these?~Boso.
 541 I, 0 |        life, and submit obediently to him, freely bestowing my
 542 I, 0 |           my possessions in giving to and releasing others?~Anselm..
 543 I, 0 |           When you render anything to God which you owe him, irrespective
 544 I, 0 |             For you do not deserve to have a thing which you do
 545 I, 0 |             This also requires one to avoid ease and worldly pleasures
 546 I, 0 |         that object. But you ought to view the gifts which you
 547 I, 0 |           both you are and he also to whom you give. And nature
 548 I, 0 |         nature herself teaches you to do to your fellow servant,
 549 I, 0 |          herself teaches you to do to your fellow servant, man
 550 I, 0 |           your fellow servant, man to man, as you would be done
 551 I, 0 |       bestow what he has ought not to receive what he has not.
 552 I, 0 |      vengeance in no sense belongs to you, since you are not your
 553 I, 0 |          all. But what do you give to God by your obedience, which
 554 I, 0 |         pay any portion of my debt to God.~Anselm.. How then do
 555 I, 0 |           sin, I have nothing left to render to him for my sin.~
 556 I, 0 |        have nothing left to render to him for my sin.~Anselm..
 557 I, 0 |            of escape. But, turning to my belief, I hope through
 558 I, 0 |            exist, when we proposed to inquire whether his coming
 559 I, 0 |          his coming were necessary to man's salvation.~Boso. We
 560 I, 0 |           yet I very much wish you to proceed as you have begun.~ ~
 561 I, 1 |         small as one look contrary to the will of God.~Boso. Did
 562 I, 1 |         sight of God, and one said to you: "Look thither;" and
 563 I, 1 |        would make it right for you to give that look contrary
 564 I, 1 |            give that look contrary to the will of God.~Boso. I
 565 I, 1 |         indeed I am so situated as to make it necessary for me
 566 I, 1 |            necessary for me either to do this, or some greater
 567 I, 1 |     necessity, and ask with regard to this sin only whether you
 568 I, 1 |        that I cannot.~Anselm.. Not to detain you too long; what
 569 I, 1 |         when I view it as contrary to the will of God, I know
 570 I, 1 |        will without blame in order to preserve his property, so
 571 I, 1 |           confess that I ought not to oppose the will of God even
 572 I, 1 |        oppose the will of God even to preserve the whole creation.~
 573 I, 1 |          Boso. Were they increased to an infinite extent, and
 574 I, 1 |         you gave the look contrary to God's will, what payment
 575 I, 1 |      always enjoins it upon us not to sin.~Boso. I cannot deny
 576 I, 1 |            sin.~Boso. Reason seems to demand this, and to make
 577 I, 1 |          seems to demand this, and to make the contrary wholly
 578 I, 1 |              Even God cannot raise to happiness any being bound
 579 I, 1 |          sin, because He ought not to.~Boso. This decision is
 580 I, 1 |           weighty.~Anselm.. Listen to an additional reason which
 581 I, 1 |          no less difficult for man to be reconciled to God.~Boso.
 582 I, 1 |           for man to be reconciled to God.~Boso. This alone would
 583 I, 1 |          This alone would drive me to despair, were it not for
 584 I, 2 |            when he allowed himself to be conquered by the devil;
 585 I, 2 |         between God and the devil, to conquer the devil by not
 586 I, 2 |          the devil by not yielding to his temptation, and so to
 587 I, 2 |          to his temptation, and so to vindicate the honor of God
 588 I, 2 |           of God and put the devil to shame, because that man,
 589 I, 2 |         heaven, sinned without any to tempt him. And when man
 590 I, 2 |            accord, allowed himself to be brought over to the will
 591 I, 2 |         himself to be brought over to the will of the devil, contrary
 592 I, 2 |        will of the devil, contrary to the will and honor of God.~
 593 I, 2 |            and honor of God.~Boso. To what would you bring me?~
 594 I, 2 |     yourself if it be not contrary to the honor of God for man
 595 I, 2 |           the honor of God for man to be reconciled to Him, with
 596 I, 2 |           for man to be reconciled to Him, with this calumnious
 597 I, 2 |         dishonored him in yielding to the devil. Now the victory
 598 I, 2 |       devil. Now the victory ought to be of this kind, that, as
 599 I, 2 |           vigor, he freely yielded to the devil to sin, and on
 600 I, 2 |        freely yielded to the devil to sin, and on this account
 601 I, 2 |         obligations which we ought to fulfil, that nothing which
 602 I, 3 |         sin, which he has no power to repay. ~Anselm.. What did
 603 I, 3 |            when he allowed himself to be overcome by the devil?~
 604 I, 3 |          by the devil?~Boso. Go on to mention, as you have begun,
 605 I, 3 |          things which can be added to those already shown for
 606 I, 3 |           whatever He had purposed to do for human nature?~Boso.
 607 I, 3 |      denying that.~Anselm.. Listen to the voice of strict justice;
 608 I, 3 |       justice; and judge according to that whether man makes to
 609 I, 3 |          to that whether man makes to God a real satisfaction
 610 I, 3 |  overcoming the devil, man restore to God what he took from God
 611 I, 3 |            God in allowing himself to be conquered by the devil;
 612 I, 3 |           devil took what belonged to God, and God was the loser,
 613 I, 3 |         and ought not by any means to receive from God what God
 614 I, 3 |         from God what God designed to give him, unless he return
 615 I, 3 |         give him, unless he return to God everything which he
 616 I, 3 |          choose one of such a race to fill up the number in his
 617 I, 3 |   justified from sin as are needed to complete the number which
 618 I, 3 |          number which man was made to fill. But a sinful man can
 619 I, 3 |          and the hope of man seems to fail, as far as regards
 620 I, 4 |         and should command him not to throw himself into a ditch,
 621 I, 4 |         ditch, which he points out to him and from which he could
 622 I, 4 |          before pointed out, so as to be utterly unable to accomplish
 623 I, 4 |            as to be utterly unable to accomplish the work assigned;
 624 I, 4 |        doing what he was commanded to do and in doing what he
 625 I, 4 |         what he was forewarned not to do.~Anselm.. Just so inexcusable
 626 I, 4 |            previous obligation not to sin, nor pay the debt which
 627 I, 4 |        guilt, because he ought not to have it; nay, he ought to
 628 I, 4 |          to have it; nay, he ought to be free from it; for as
 629 I, 4 |           for as it is a crime not to have what he ought, it is
 630 I, 4 |          ought, it is also a crime to have what he ought not.
 631 I, 4 |           it is a crime in man not to have that power which he
 632 I, 4 |            power which he received to avoid sin, it is also a
 633 I, 4 |            sin, it is also a crime to have that inability by which
 634 I, 4 |            this inability. For not to have the power which one
 635 I, 4 |          the power which one ought to have, is the same thing
 636 I, 4 |         have, is the same thing as to have the inability which
 637 I, 4 |      inability which one ought not to have. Therefore man's inability
 638 I, 4 |          Therefore man's inability to restore what he owes to
 639 I, 4 |            to restore what he owes to God, an inability brought
 640 I, 4 |            not paying what he owes to God.~Boso. This is very
 641 I, 4 |      paying, and in not being able to pay.~Anselm.. But no unjust
 642 I, 4 |           person shall be admitted to happiness; for as that happiness
 643 I, 4 |          wanting, so it can belong to no one who is not so pure
 644 I, 4 |          one who is not so pure as to have no injustice found
 645 I, 4 |         Anselm.. But if you choose to say that a merciful God
 646 I, 4 |         that a merciful God remits to the suppliant his debt,
 647 I, 4 |       cannot pay; God must be said to dispense with one of two
 648 I, 4 |        which man ought voluntarily to render but cannot, that
 649 I, 4 |            a thing which ought not to be given up even to save
 650 I, 4 |            not to be given up even to save the whole universe
 651 I, 4 |         before said, God was about to take away from man by punishment,
 652 I, 4 |           up what man ought freely to render, for the reason that
 653 I, 4 |         gives up what he is unable to obtain? But it is mockery
 654 I, 4 |          obtain? But it is mockery to ascribe such compassion
 655 I, 4 |            ascribe such compassion to God. But if God gives up
 656 I, 4 |         gives up what he was about to take from unwilling man,
 657 I, 4 |         man, because man is unable to restore what he ought to
 658 I, 4 |           to restore what he ought to restore freely, He abates
 659 I, 4 |           he has what he ought not to have. For he ought not to
 660 I, 4 |          to have. For he ought not to have this inability, and
 661 I, 4 |          of God is wholly contrary to the Divine justice, which
 662 I, 4 |          payment, he either wishes to restore, or else he does
 663 I, 4 |           or else he does not wish to. Now, if he wishes to do
 664 I, 4 |         wish to. Now, if he wishes to do what he cannot, he will
 665 I, 4 |            and if he does not wish to, he will be unjust.~Boso.
 666 I, 4 |         and God's compassion seems to fail.~Anselm.. You have
 667 I, 4 |           man and beast, according to the multitude of his mercies.
 668 I, 4 |           that happiness ought not to be bestowed upon any one
 669 I, 4 |           this remission ought not to take place, save by the
 670 I, 4 |         incurred by sin, according to the extent of sin. And if
 671 I, 4 |            these proofs, you ought to mention them.~Boso. I see
 672 I, 4 |        what he owes, and ought not to be saved without paying?
 673 I, 4 |           question which you ought to ask of those in whose behalf
 674 I, 4 |           should also request them to tell how man can be saved
 675 I, 4 |            they are utterly unable to do it, let them cease from
 676 I, 4 |            us, and let them hasten to unite themselves with us,
 677 I, 4 |          ask you, as I have begun, to show me how a man is saved
 678 I, 5 |           what reply will you make to a person who perceives that
 679 I, 5 |          saved by Christ, sees fit to declare that there cannot
 680 I, 5 |          Anselm.. What reply ought to be made to one who ascribes
 681 I, 5 |        What reply ought to be made to one who ascribes impossibility
 682 I, 5 |         who ascribes impossibility to a necessary truth, because
 683 I, 5 |            Very true; but we ought to show him in what way the
 684 I, 5 |       thing is true which he holds to be impossible.~Anselm..
 685 I, 5 |          is necessary for some men to attain to felicity? For,
 686 I, 5 |   necessary for some men to attain to felicity? For, if it is
 687 I, 5 |            it is unfitting for God to elevate man with any stain
 688 I, 5 |           with any stain upon him, to that for which he made him
 689 I, 5 |         good intent, or was unable to accomplish his designs;
 690 I, 5 |           no man should be exalted to that state for which he
 691 I, 5 |        reasoning ought by no means to be questioned, even though
 692 I, 5 |         come not for this purpose, to have you remove doubts from
 693 I, 5 |          doubts from my faith, but to have you show me the reason
 694 I, 5 |          his sin what he is unable to pay, and cannot be saved
 695 I, 5 |     further with me, and enable me to understand, by force of.
 696 I, 5 |        enjoins upon us with regard to Christ, if we hope to be
 697 I, 5 |       regard to Christ, if we hope to be saved; and how they avail
 698 I, 5 |           account of his sin. And, to make your reasoning the
 699 I, 5 |            at the beginning, so as to rest it upon a strong foundation.~
 700 I, 5 |            the things which remain to be said from those which
 701 I, 5 |        these things become tedious to one who wishes to read them.~ ~
 702 I, 5 |          tedious to one who wishes to read them.~ ~
 703 II, 1|            made holy by God, so as to be happy in the enjoyment
 704 II, 1|              Anselm.. It ought not to be disputed that rational
 705 II, 1|         made holy by God, in order to be happy in enjoying Him.
 706 II, 1|         happy in enjoying Him. For to this end is it rational,
 707 II, 1|           is it rational, in order to discern justice and injustice,
 708 II, 1|        loved and avoided according to it. But it does not befit
 709 II, 1|          But it does not befit God to give such power in vain.
 710 II, 1|        created for this end, viz., to love and choose the highest
 711 II, 1|    rational, it was made, in order to fulfil this purpose, both
 712 II, 1|          it was made holy in order to choose and love the highest
 713 II, 1|          it was made such in order to follow sometimes what it
 714 II, 1|           then in vain was it made to love and choose holiness;
 715 II, 1|            it should be ever bound to follow holiness. Therefore,
 716 II, 1|            was made holy, in order to be happy in enjoying the
 717 II, 2|        that man was so made as not to be necessarily subject to
 718 II, 2|          to be necessarily subject to death; for, as we have already
 719 II, 2|           God's wisdom and justice to compel man to suffer death
 720 II, 2|          and justice to compel man to suffer death without fault,
 721 II, 2|       fault, when he made him holy to enjoy eternal blessedness.
 722 II, 3|      clearly proved. For if man is to be perfectly restored, the
 723 II, 3|             had he not sinned, was to have been transferred with
 724 II, 3|     transferred with the same body to an immortal state, so when
 725 II, 3|        Boso. But what shall we say to one who tells us that this
 726 II, 3|           right enough with regard to those in whom humanity shall
 727 II, 4|          will complete, in respect to human nature, what he has
 728 II, 4|           he has begun with regard to human nature, or else he
 729 II, 4|        nature, or else he has made to no end so lofty a nature,
 730 II, 4|         foreign from his character to suppose that he will suffer
 731 II, 4|         rational existence utterly to perish.~Boso. No reasonable
 732 II, 4|            is it necessary for him to perfect in human nature
 733 II, 4|          Boso. I now understand it to be necessary for God to
 734 II, 4|            to be necessary for God to complete what he has begun,
 735 II, 5|       avoiding what is unbecoming, to secure the salvation of
 736 II, 5|            attribute our salvation to his grace, if he saves us
 737 II, 5|           or lessens our gratitude to a benefactor, and there
 738 II, 5|           benefit from a necessity to which he is unwillingly
 739 II, 5|    necessary for you, if possible, to redeem your promise, or
 740 II, 5|           for you were not obliged to make yourself his debtor
 741 II, 5|           vow he ought necessarily to perform, lest he suffer
 742 II, 5|       although he may be compelled to keep it even unwillingly,
 743 II, 5|         not less but more pleasing to God than if he had not vowed.
 744 II, 5|         God; and he cannot be said to live a holy life of necessity,
 745 II, 5|    therefore, do we owe all thanks to God for completing his intended
 746 II, 5|      completing his intended favor to man; though, indeed, it
 747 II, 5|        would not be proper for him to fail in his good design,
 748 II, 5|             For what man was about to do was not hidden from God
 749 II, 5|           as it were bound himself to complete the good which
 750 II, 5|         say that God does anything to avoid dishonor, which he
 751 II, 5|           his honor, which belongs to him in himself, and is not
 752 II, 5|         his unchangeable goodness, to complete the work which
 753 II, 6|    effected, except the price paid to God for the sin of man be
 754 II, 6|           But none but a man ought to do this, other wise man
 755 II, 6|        make and none but man ought to make, it is necessary for
 756 II, 6|          necessary for the God-man to make it.~Boso. Now blessed
 757 II, 6|        great discovery with regard to our question. Go on, therefore,
 758 II, 7|           it is for the same being to be perfect God and perfect
 759 II, 7|           were possible for either to be changed into the other,
 760 II, 7|           God-man, whom we require to be of a nature both human
 761 II, 7|            be, would avail nothing to our purpose. Moreover, if
 762 II, 7|          complete natures are said to be joined somehow, in such
 763 II, 7|          it is impossible for both to do the work necessary to
 764 II, 7|           to do the work necessary to be accomplished. For God
 765 II, 7|             because he has no debt to pay; and man will not do
 766 II, 7|          and perfect man, in order to make this atonement. For
 767 II, 7|            he cannot and ought not to do it, unless he be very
 768 II, 7|            you say is satisfactory to me.~ ~
 769 II, 8|           VIII.~How it behoved God to take a man of the race of
 770 II, 8|            Anselm.. It now remains to inquire whence and how God
 771 II, 8|           this man will not belong to the human family, which
 772 II, 8|            and therefore ought not to make atonement for it, because
 773 II, 8|          because he never belonged to it. For, as it is right
 774 II, 8|             as it is right for man to make atonement for the sin
 775 II, 8|            one born of them, ought to make atonement for the sin
 776 II, 8|          whoever restores the race to its place, it will certainly
 777 II, 8|      showed plainly that he wished to produce all that he intended
 778 II, 8|            he intended with regard to human nature from man alone.
 779 II, 8|            it will not be restored to that dignity which it would
 780 II, 8|             besides, God will seem to have failed of his purpose,
 781 II, 8|      follow reason, as we proposed to do, this is the necessary
 782 II, 8|       Anselm.. It is no great toil to show that that man will
 783 II, 8|          done. Wherefore, in order to show that this last mode
 784 II, 8|         shall spring from a woman, to be born of a woman without
 785 II, 8|            which can be superadded to this, showing that the God-man
 786 II, 8|     showing that the God-man ought to be born of a virgin, we
 787 II, 9|          Divine persons this ought to be effected, I have expressed
 788 II, 9| Incarnation of the Word, addressed to my lord, the Pope Urban.~
 789 II, 9|         persons which ought always to be equal there will be an
 790 II, 9|        Word, though having nothing to do with man, will yet be
 791 II, 9|     incongruous and do not pertain to the incarnation of the Word.
 792 II, 9|           more fitting for the Son to become incarnate than the
 793 II, 9|            It is, that for the Son to pray to the Father is more
 794 II, 9|           that for the Son to pray to the Father is more proper
 795 II, 9|        other person of the Trinity to supplicate his fellow. Moreover,
 796 II, 9|     Moreover, man, for whom he was to pray, and the devil, whom
 797 II, 9|         and the devil, whom he was to vanquish, have both put
 798 II, 9|            put on a false likeness to God by their own will. Wherefore
 799 II, 9|           the Son, who is believed to be the very image of God.
 800 II, 9|        peculiar propriety ascribed to him upon whom chiefly the
 801 II, 9|   infallible reason has brought us to this necessary conclusion,
 802 II, 9|            more fitting in respect to the person of the Word than
 803 II, 9|           I cannot deviate from it to the right or left.~Anselm..
 804 II, 9|          guidance we have no power to keep the way of truth.~ ~
 805 II, 0|          it is impossible for them to sin. ~Anselm.. We ought
 806 II, 0|              Anselm.. We ought not to question whether this man
 807 II, 0|         whether this man was about to die as a debt, as all other
 808 II, 0|           sin, it should seem hard to be believed. For to say
 809 II, 0|           hard to be believed. For to say a word concerning him,
 810 II, 0|         which we call sinful? For, to say nothing of other things,
 811 II, 0|           was not possible for him to commit the sin of lying?
 812 II, 0|           lying? For, when he says to the Jews, of his Father: "
 813 II, 0|           another; since I am able to be dragged or bound in no
 814 II, 0|            understand, if he chose to do so. And, since he could
 815 II, 0|     unwillingly and could not wish to lie, none the less can it
 816 II, 0|            Boso. Now let us return to our original inquiry with
 817 II, 0|       original inquiry with regard to that man, as if nothing
 818 II, 0|            then, if he were unable to sin, because, according
 819 II, 0|            sin, because, according to you, he could not wish to
 820 II, 0|          to you, he could not wish to sin, he maintains holiness
 821 II, 0|    holiness? For we are accustomed to say that God made man and
 822 II, 0|           of praise, though unable to commit sin?~Boso. Doubtless
 823 II, 0|    deserved this present inability to sin from the fact that when
 824 II, 0|        they could sin they refused to do so.~Anselm.. What say
 825 II, 0|          What say you with respect to God, who cannot sin, and
 826 II, 0|         deserved this, by refusing to sin when he had the power?
 827 II, 0|      holiness?~Boso. I should like to have you answer that question
 828 II, 0|          my reasoning with respect to the angels.~Anselm.. The
 829 II, 0|        Anselm.. The angels are not to be praised for their holiness
 830 II, 0|            but because it is owing to themselves, in a certain
 831 II, 0|    possesses. For a person is said to give a thing, who does not
 832 II, 0|           it away when he can; and to do a thing is but the same
 833 II, 0|       thing is but the same as not to prevent it, when that is
 834 II, 0|         himself, he is most of all to be praised for the good
 835 II, 0|            our first parents so as to be incapable of sin, and
 836 II, 0|          right for any one of them to be the same with God, as
 837 II, 0|      without reason.~Boso. I blush to have asked the question.
 838 II, 0|           Go on with what you have to say.~Anselm.. We must conclude,
 839 II, 0|           he should not be subject to death, inasmuch as he will
 840 II, 1|              Now, also, it remains to inquire whether, as man'
 841 II, 1|           is possible for that man to die?~Boso. We need hardly
 842 II, 1|         hardly dispute with regard to this, since he will be really
 843 II, 1|    incorruption belong essentially to human nature, for neither
 844 II, 1|         man; but happiness accrues to him from the one, and misery
 845 II, 1|            And so it is not enough to prove that that man ought
 846 II, 1|          prove that that man ought to be subject to death, for
 847 II, 1|            man ought to be subject to death, for us to say that
 848 II, 1|           subject to death, for us to say that he will be in all
 849 II, 1|             he would scarcely seem to be omnipotent.~Anselm..
 850 II, 1|      Anselm.. Therefore is he able to avoid death if he chooses,
 851 II, 1|            if he chooses, and also to die and rise again. Moreover,
 852 II, 1|           it down by permitting it to be taken, it makes no difference
 853 II, 1|      Anselm.. If, then, he chooses to allow it, he could be slain;
 854 II, 1|           and if he were unwilling to allow it, he couId not be
 855 II, 1|          couId not be slain.~Boso. To this we are unavoidably
 856 II, 1|         the gift which he presents to God, not of debt but freely,
 857 II, 1|          of debt but freely, ought to be something greater than
 858 II, 1|            or something pertaining to himself.~Boso. I cannot
 859 II, 1|            he may not give himself to God, or anything of his,
 860 II, 1|         For every creature belongs to God.~Boso. This is so.~Anselm..
 861 II, 1|      himself, or something of his, to the honor of God, which
 862 II, 1|          that he will give himself to God by obedience, so as,
 863 II, 1|     steadily maintaining holiness, to render himself subject to
 864 II, 1|          to render himself subject to his will, this will not
 865 II, 1|           being owes his obedience to God.~Boso. This cannot be
 866 II, 1|             or something belonging to him, to God.~Boso. Reason
 867 II, 1|        something belonging to him, to God.~Boso. Reason urges
 868 II, 1|         God.~Boso. Reason urges us to this conclusion.~Anselm..
 869 II, 1|             perchance, this may be to give up his life or to lay
 870 II, 1|          be to give up his life or to lay down his life, or to
 871 II, 1|           to lay down his life, or to deliver himself up to death
 872 II, 1|           or to deliver himself up to death for God's honor. For
 873 II, 1|        will be found, he ought not to die, as we have already
 874 II, 1|          whether this is according to reason.~Boso. Speak you,
 875 II, 1|          is it not fitting for him to atone with difficulty? And
 876 II, 1|     easiest manner possible, so as to dishonor God by sinning
 877 II, 1|            his sin, he should make to God the greatest possible
 878 II, 1|        severe or difficult for man to do for God's honor, than
 879 II, 1|           do for God's honor, than to suffer death voluntarily
 880 II, 1|            man cannot give himself to God in any way more truly
 881 II, 1|            by surrendering himself to death for God's honor.~Boso.
 882 II, 1|           Therefore, he who wishes to make atonement for man's
 883 II, 1|            not necessarily subject to death on account of his
 884 II, 1|    peculiarly fitting for that man to enter into the common intercourse
 885 II, 1|            and maintain a likeness to them, only without sin.
 886 II, 1|         they can possibly be shown to be by mere reason without
 887 II, 1|       thing it was for him who was to redeem mankind, and lead
 888 II, 1|           by personal intercourse, to set them an example himself
 889 II, 1|            way in which they ought to live? But how could he have
 890 II, 1|            have given this example to weak and dying men, that
 891 II, 1|             had they not been able to recognise all these virtues
 892 II, 2|         plainly show that he ought to be mortal and to partake
 893 II, 2|          he ought to be mortal and to partake of our weaknesses.
 894 II, 2|           is no misery in choosing to bear a loss, when the choice
 895 II, 3|          whether, in this likeness to men which he ought to have,
 896 II, 3|     likeness to men which he ought to have, he will inherit also
 897 II, 3|         man be immortal in respect to his Divine nature, yet will
 898 II, 3|            take anything belonging to man which is only useless,
 899 II, 3|      useless, but even a hindrance to the work which that man
 900 II, 3|            Years, this should seem to he as you say; but, in infancy,
 901 II, 3|          it will not be a fit time to discover wisdom, so there
 902 II, 3|           the good of knowing. And to answer your question in
 903 II, 3|         Boso. Though wholly unable to doubt the truth of this
 904 II, 3|         truth of this with respect to Christ, yet, on this very
 905 II, 4|         sins. ~Boso. Now I ask you to tell me how his death can
 906 II, 4|            think of you have shown to be so monstrous that, were
 907 II, 4|            should be made contrary to the just will of God.~Anselm..
 908 II, 4|            perish, would you do it to preserve the rest of creation?~
 909 II, 4|         alone. And I think I ought to say this, not only with
 910 II, 4|         this, not only with regard to killing him, but even as
 911 II, 4|           killing him, but even as to the slightest injury which
 912 II, 4|      person.~Anselm.. What say you to this, that one often suffers
 913 II, 4|           his person, in order not to suffer greater ones in his
 914 II, 4|           things lie in subjection to his power, as you answered
 915 II, 4|          great does this good seem to you, if the destruction
 916 II, 4|        itself so lovely, can avail to pay what is due for the
 917 II, 4|        Plainly.~Anselm.. If, then, to lay down life is the same
 918 II, 4|           down life is the same as to suffer death, as the gift
 919 II, 5|            properly so with regard to all sins not affecting the
 920 II, 5|          If it be as great an evil to slay him as his life is
 921 II, 5|          been considering as equal to the worth of his life, we
 922 II, 5|      Divine, and reconcile sinners to God by his own death. Therefore
 923 II, 5|            Christ, whom we confess to be both God and man, died
 924 II, 5|        order that you may disclose to me, in their true rationality,
 925 II, 5|         Christian faith which seem to infidels improper or impossible;
 926 II, 5|          impossible; and this, not to strengthen me in the faith,
 927 II, 5|    strengthen me in the faith, but to gratify one already confirmed
 928 II, 6|        explain what I am now about to ask. First, then, how does
 929 II, 6|            is fitting for that man to be God, and also the restorer
 930 II, 6|        thing of so great magnitude to remain hidden from us. For
 931 II, 6|        sinned so that he ought not to be denied existence But
 932 II, 6|           he deserved, by his sin, to lose his existence together
 933 II, 6|            for the sinner contrary to his deserts; while the act
 934 II, 6|          and was not in opposition to man's deserts. How great
 935 II, 6|          is, also, for God and man to unite in one person, that,
 936 II, 6|          man! Who, then, will dare to think that the human mind
 937 II, 6|            and I do not desire you to do what no man can do, but
 938 II, 6|            no man can do, but only to explain it according to
 939 II, 6|            to explain it according to your ability. For you will
 940 II, 6|            but if I have any power to explain what you wish, let
 941 II, 6|           is agreed that God ought to become man, no doubt He
 942 II, 6|            the wisdom or the power to effect this without sin.~
 943 II, 6|       exception of those belonging to their race, and that all
 944 II, 6|            so deep love for us, as to be both able and willing
 945 II, 6|           be both able and willing to save all those who trusted
 946 II, 6|         service which he was about to do for the king, according
 947 II, 6|            for the king, according to his desire; and, inasmuch
 948 II, 6|          inasmuch as those who are to be pardoned cannot all assemble
 949 II, 6|        acknowledged that he wished to obtain pardon by the work
 950 II, 6|         that day accomplished, and to subscribe to the condition
 951 II, 6|     accomplished, and to subscribe to the condition there laid
 952 II, 6|        this pardon, and yet wished to render atonement and to
 953 II, 6|            to render atonement and to be set right again by the
 954 II, 6|          manner, since all who are to be saved cannot be present
 955 II, 6|         its power is extended even to those far remote in place
 956 II, 6|            time. But that it ought to benefit not merely those
 957 II, 6|         his death as are necessary to complete the heavenly state,
 958 II, 6|            that time were admitted to the benefits of redemption.
 959 II, 6|             was so unprofitable as to contain no human being who
 960 II, 6|         allow the human race, made to complete the heavenly state,
 961 II, 6|       which he made for their use, to exist in vain.~Boso. You
 962 II, 6|         objection that can be made to this view, then it is necessary
 963 II, 6|            unchangeably determined to make all men from them,
 964 II, 6|          Nay, undoubtedly we ought to believe that God made them
 965 II, 6|            for this purpose, viz., to belong to the number of
 966 II, 6|           purpose, viz., to belong to the number of those for
 967 II, 6|            said above, with regard to the palace of the king.~
 968 II, 6|          were it not that he ought to be pure of himself, whereas
 969 II, 6|        himself, whereas he appears to have his purity from his
 970 II, 7|           born, except as destined to suffer death. ~Boso. Thus
 971 II, 7|          another matter that needs to be looked into. For we have
 972 II, 7|      before that his death was not to be a matter of necessity;
 973 II, 7|          death? For if he were not to die, the virgin of whom
 974 II, 7|          them, I think, the answer to your question.~Boso. I see
 975 II, 7|           the word power in regard to it, the one referring to
 976 II, 7|           to it, the one referring to his disposition, the other
 977 II, 7|         his disposition, the other to the act itself; and that,
 978 II, 7|            though having the power to lie, he was so constituted
 979 II, 7|       constituted by nature as not to wish to lie, and, therefore,
 980 II, 7|           by nature as not to wish to lie, and, therefore, deserved
 981 II, 7|           like manner, with regard to the preservation of his
 982 II, 7|           and the power of wishing to preserve it. And when the
 983 II, 7|     preserve his life, so as never to die, we must not doubt that
 984 II, 7|            he always had the power to preserve his life, though
 985 II, 7|           though he could not wish to do so for the purpose of
 986 II, 7|        respects similar, the power to lie and the power to preserve
 987 II, 7|         power to lie and the power to preserve his life. For,
 988 II, 7|            life. For, if he wished to lie, he would of course
 989 II, 7|            would of course be able to; but, if he wished to avoid
 990 II, 7|         able to; but, if he wished to avoid the other, he could
 991 II, 7|      assert that he could not wish to avoid death, or that he
 992 II, 7|           death, or that he wished to die of necessity, because
 993 II, 7|       purpose, that he should wish to die. Wherefore, as you ought
 994 II, 7|        Wherefore, as you ought not to say that he could not help
 995 II, 7|          he could not help wishing to die, or that it was of necessity
 996 II, 7|           necessity that he wished to die, it is equally improper
 997 II, 7|             it is equally improper to say that he could not avoid
 998 II, 7|            since dying and wishing to die are included in the
 999 II, 7|         reasoning, both would seem to fall under a like necessity.~
1000 II, 7|         Anselm.. Who freely wished to become man, that by the