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  1 pre  |               PREFACE.~THE first part of this book was copied without
  2 pre  |         suffering under great anguish of heart, the origin and reason
  3 pre  |          heart, the origin and reason of which are known to God,
  4 pre  |            God, that, at the entreaty of others, I began the book
  5 pre  |               contains the objections of infidels, who despise the
  6 pre  |            reason; and also the reply of believers; and, in fine,
  7 pre  |              fine, leaving Christ out of view (as if nothing had
  8 pre  |           nothing had ever been known of him), it proves, by absolute
  9 pre  |              as if nothing were known of Christ, it is moreover shown
 10 pre  |               preface, with the heads of the whole work, at its commencement;
 11 pre  |               as he looks on the face of it, there may be nothing
 12 pre  |             nothing in the whole body of the work which shall escape
 13 I, 1 |            down in writing the proofs of a certain doctrine of our
 14 I, 1 |          proofs of a certain doctrine of our faith, which I am accustomed
 15 I, 1 |            they ask, not for the sake of attaining to faith by means
 16 I, 1 |           attaining to faith by means of reason, but that they may
 17 I, 1 |          convince any one who demands of them a reason of that hope
 18 I, 1 |              demands of them a reason of that hope which is in us.
 19 I, 1 |              have done this, by means of some other being, angelic
 20 I, 1 |              for the value and beauty of the reasoning; although
 21 I, 1 |             take to argue with me one of those persons who agitate
 22 I, 2 |               believe the deep things of Christian faith before we
 23 I, 2 |              myself to hold the faith of our redemption, by the prevenient
 24 I, 2 |               by the prevenient grace of God, so that, even were
 25 I, 2 |               littleness and weakness of human nature for the sake
 26 I, 2 |             human nature for the sake of its renewal?~Anselm.. You
 27 I, 2 |             renewal?~Anselm.. You ask of me a thing which is above
 28 I, 2 |               regard to the substance of the truth, than that my
 29 I, 2 |             happens in the discussion of some question that God opens
 30 I, 2 |             should hope for the grace of God, because if you liberally
 31 I, 2 |              another thing on account of which I think this subject
 32 I, 2 |               is required a knowledge of Power and Necessity and
 33 I, 2 |              to one another that none of them can be fully examined
 34 I, 2 |           rest; and so the discussion of these topics requires a
 35 I, 2 |          means useless; for ignorance of these subjects makes certain
 36 I, 2 |               important, but as it is of a form fair above the sons
 37 I, 2 |              form fair above the sons of men, so is it of a wisdom
 38 I, 2 |             the sons of men, so is it of a wisdom fair above the
 39 I, 2 |              fair above the intellect of men. On this account, I
 40 I, 2 |            not to fulfil this request of mine for the learned but
 41 I, 2 |             your earnestness and that of those who desire this thing
 42 I, 2 |              this thing with you, out of love and pious zeal, I will
 43 I, 2 |                I will try to the best of my ability with the assistance
 44 I, 2 |           ability with the assistance of God and your prayers, which,
 45 I, 2 |             know still deeper grounds of so great a truth lie concealed.~
 46 I, 2 |                therefore, to make use of the words of infidels; for
 47 I, 2 |              to make use of the words of infidels; for it is proper
 48 I, 2 |        investigate the reasonableness of our faith to propose the
 49 I, 2 |             to propose the objections of those who are wholly unwilling
 50 I, 2 |            faith, without the support of reason. For although they
 51 I, 3 |               CHAPTER III.~Objections of infidels and replies of
 52 I, 3 |               of infidels and replies of believers.~Boso. Infidels
 53 I, 3 |               descended into the womb of a virgin, that he was born
 54 I, 3 |              virgin, that he was born of woman, that he grew on the
 55 I, 3 |               grew on the nourishment of milk and the food of men;
 56 I, 3 |      nourishment of milk and the food of men; and, passing over many
 57 I, 3 |      proclaiming the ineffable height of his compassion. For the
 58 I, 3 |         praising the wise beneficence of God. For, as death came
 59 I, 3 |              race by the disobedience of man, it was fitting that
 60 I, 3 |                And, as sin, the cause of our condemnation, had its
 61 I, 3 |            woman, so ought the author of our righteousness and salvation
 62 I, 3 |              and salvation to be born of a woman. And so also was
 63 I, 3 |               conquered him in eating of the tree, should be vanquished
 64 I, 3 |               by man in the suffering of the tree which man bore.
 65 I, 4 |             the things which we speak of. For when one wishes to
 66 I, 4 |             in air, because no traces of the picture remain in them.
 67 I, 4 |           proportions which you speak of as so many pictures of the
 68 I, 4 |          speak of as so many pictures of the real thing, since they
 69 I, 4 |              do not think this belief of ours a reality, but only
 70 I, 4 |      Therefore the rational existence of the truth first be shown,
 71 I, 4 |          Afterwards, to make the body of the truth, so to speak,
 72 I, 4 |            proportions, like pictures of the body, must be described.~
 73 I, 4 |             to do the things we speak of seem absolute enough when
 74 I, 4 |             the human race, that work of his so very precious, was
 75 I, 5 |         CHAPTER V.~How the redemption of man could not be effected
 76 I, 5 |              a human being), the mind of man would receive it far
 77 I, 5 |             some man without sin, not of a sinful substance, and
 78 I, 5 |       substance, and not a descendant of any man, but just as he
 79 I, 5 |           seem that the work we speak of could have been done.~Anselm..
 80 I, 5 |               adjudged as the servant of that being? Now if this
 81 I, 5 |             eternity only the servant of God and an equal with the
 82 I, 5 |              would now be the servant of a being who was not God,
 83 I, 6 |              hell, and from the power of the devil, whom he came
 84 I, 6 |          purchased for us the kingdom of heaven; and that, by doing
 85 I, 6 |              manifested the greatness of his love towards us; they
 86 I, 6 |               his will; for the wrath of God is nothing but his desire
 87 I, 6 |             desire to punish the sins of men, man is free from his
 88 I, 6 |              sins, and from the wrath of God, and from hell, and
 89 I, 6 |              hell, and from the power of the devil, all which things
 90 I, 6 |             things are the sufferings of sin; and, what he had lost
 91 I, 6 |            what he had lost by reason of these sins, he now regains.
 92 I, 6 |              Or, whose is the kingdom of heaven, if it be not his
 93 I, 6 |              is it that, for the sake of displaying his love, he
 94 I, 6 |              them? As to what you say of his coming to vanquish the
 95 I, 6 |                Is not the omnipotence of God everywhere enthroned?
 96 I, 7 |                I do not see the force of that argument, which we
 97 I, 7 |               we are wont to make use of, that God, in order to save
 98 I, 7 |              there was nothing worthy of death, and who was God,
 99 I, 7 |              had a rightful ownership of man, for the devil had not
100 I, 7 |             God, or were in the power of any but God. But since neither
101 I, 7 |            exist without the exertion of Divine power, what cause
102 I, 7 |               Lord by the persuasions of the other, both were thieves.
103 I, 7 |             Or, should God, the judge of all, snatch man, thus held,
104 I, 7 |            snatch man, thus held, out of the power of him who holds
105 I, 7 |           thus held, out of the power of him who holds him so unrighteously,
106 I, 7 |                either for the purpose of punishing him in some other
107 I, 7 |               other way than by means of the devil, or of sparing
108 I, 7 |             by means of the devil, or of sparing him, what injustice
109 I, 7 |               sin. But the infliction of punishment was nothing meritorious
110 I, 7 |               not led to it by a love of justice, but urged on by
111 I, 7 |            not do this at the command of God, but God's inconceivable
112 I, 7 |             exposed to the tormenting of the devil, and that God
113 I, 7 |           thing, from opposite points of view, is sometimes both
114 I, 7 |             this violence on the part of the man who returns the
115 I, 7 |              is inflicted by the hand of justice itself, but that
116 I, 7 |         punished by the just judgment of God. But if that written
117 I, 7 |            and cancelled by the death of Christ; and if any one thinks
118 I, 7 |               as if under the writing of a sort of compact, should
119 I, 7 |           under the writing of a sort of compact, should justly demand
120 I, 7 |         demand sin and the punishment of sin, of man, before Christ
121 I, 7 |            and the punishment of sin, of man, before Christ suffered,
122 I, 7 |               For that writing is not of the devil, because it is
123 I, 7 |              it is called the writing of a decree of the devil, but
124 I, 7 |               the writing of a decree of the devil, but of God. For
125 I, 7 |              decree of the devil, but of God. For by the just judgment
126 I, 7 |              For by the just judgment of God it was decreed, and,
127 I, 7 |              he should not henceforth of himself have the power to
128 I, 7 |           avoid sin or the punishment of sin; for the spirit is out-going
129 I, 7 |              believe that, on account of this writing, there can
130 I, 7 |               any justice on the part of the devil in his tormenting
131 I, 7 |               God should not make use of as own power against him
132 I, 7 |        against him for the liberation of man.~ ~
133 I, 8 |               How, althougth the acts of Christ's condescension which
134 I, 8 |          condescension which we speak of do not belong to his divinity,
135 I, 8 |           these things should be said of him even as a man; and why
136 I, 8 |              man did not suffer death of his own will. ~Anselm..
137 I, 8 |              will. ~Anselm.. The will of God ought to be a sufficient
138 I, 8 |              he does it. For the will of God is never irrational.~
139 I, 8 |             When, therefore, we speak of God as enduring any humiliation
140 I, 8 |              not refer to the majesty of that nature, which cannot
141 I, 8 |         suffer; but to the feebleness of the human constitution which
142 I, 8 |               there remains no ground of objection against our faith.
143 I, 8 |               we intend no debasement of the Divine nature, but we
144 I, 8 |             human. In the incarnation of God there is no lowering
145 I, 8 |              God there is no lowering of the Deity; but the nature
146 I, 8 |             the Deity; but the nature of man we believe to be exalted.~
147 I, 8 |               nature, which is spoken of Christ after the manner
148 I, 8 |               Christ after the manner of human weakness; but how
149 I, 8 |         sinner, who was the most just of all men? What man, if he
150 I, 8 |              himself be judged worthy of condemnation? And so the
151 I, 8 |          slain, against his will, but of his own accord he endured
152 I, 8 |               death for the salvation of men.~Boso. Though it were
153 I, 8 |           since he agreed to the will of the Father; yet the Father
154 I, 8 |             death, and that the death of the cross. For which cause
155 I, 8 |             my own will, but the will of him that sent me." And when
156 I, 8 |               death by the constraint of obedience, than by the inclination
157 I, 8 |               than by the inclination of his own free will.~ ~
158 I, 9 |                CHAPTER IX.~How it was of his own accord that he died,
159 I, 9 |             what he did at the demand of obedience, and what he suffered,
160 I, 9 |         believe that God demands this of every rational being, and
161 I, 9 |               Boso. There is no doubt of this.~Anselin. Now you see
162 I, 9 |              he did, under the demand of obedience.~Boso. Very true,
163 I, 9 |             or should God demand this of him?~Boso. It is on this
164 I, 9 |           would not have exacted this of him; but I should like to
165 I, 9 |               like to hear the reason of the thing from you.~Anselm..
166 I, 9 |             be happy in the enjoyment of God.~Boso. Yes.~Anselm..
167 I, 9 |           that he might enjoy a state of blessedness. For it would
168 I, 9 |            die; but he suffered death of his own will, not yielding
169 I, 9 |        yielding up his life as an act of obedience, but on account
170 I, 9 |             obedience, but on account of his obedience in maintaining
171 I, 9 |               he met death on account of it. It may, indeed be said,
172 I, 9 |              that upon him on account of which he met death. It was
173 I, 9 |               he had an understanding of before. Again, when the
174 I, 9 |             death, and that the death of the cross," be added: "wherefore
175 I, 9 |            what David said: "he drank of the brook in the way, therefore
176 I, 9 |              on him, only as a reward of his obedience (for he himself
177 I, 9 |               to the world the height of his omnipotence, than by
178 I, 9 |            place, except on condition of something else, it is not
179 I, 9 |               said to occur by reason of that thing. For if we intend
180 I, 9 |         something else first by means of which it may be done; when
181 I, 9 |        properly said to be on account of the other; since that is
182 I, 9 |               it may be properly said of me: the boat was ready,
183 I, 9 |             we not only use this form of expression, when it is by
184 I, 9 |       expression, when it is by means of a thing which we desire
185 I, 9 |          something else, not by means of that thing, but only after
186 I, 9 |              attended the celebration of mass; when that has been
187 I, 9 |             it were really on account of that. Moreover, that saying
188 I, 9 |           that. Moreover, that saying of his: "I came not to do mine
189 I, 9 |           mine own will, but the will of him that sent me," is precisely
190 I, 9 |            for what one does not have of himself, but of God, he
191 I, 9 |              not have of himself, but of God, he ought not to call
192 I, 9 |              teaches, or a holy will, of himself, but of God. Christ,
193 I, 9 |            holy will, of himself, but of God. Christ, therefore,
194 I, 9 |             do his own will, but that of the Father; for his holy
195 I, 9 |               will the natural desire of safety, in accordance with
196 I, 9 |               shrank from the anguish of death. But he speaks of
197 I, 9 |               of death. But he speaks of the will of the Father,
198 I, 9 |             But he speaks of the will of the Father, not because
199 I, 9 |            Father preferred the death of the Son to his life; but
200 I, 9 |            was signified in the death of Christ. Since reason did
201 I, 9 |           Since reason did not demand of another what he could not
202 I, 9 |             desire the reconciliation of the world to take place
203 I, 9 |            something else, the choice of which would preclude the
204 I, 9 |          would preclude the existence of that which he is said to
205 I, 9 |              Father desired the death of the Son, because he was
206 I, 9 |       earnestly desired the salvation of man, as if the Father had
207 I, 0 |              to die for the salvation of the world, that the Father
208 I, 0 |              compulsion), and the cup of suffering, and spared him
209 I, 0 |              have it as a human being of himself, but of the Father;
210 I, 0 |           human being of himself, but of the Father; so also that
211 I, 0 |            die for the accomplishment of so great good, he could
212 I, 0 |               had but from the Father of lights, from whom is every
213 I, 0 |              man. For as the Son says of the Father: "No man cometh
214 I, 0 |           commandment to endure death of his own accord and to take
215 I, 0 |               but gave himself for us of his own will, who will deny
216 I, 0 |               to say that the Father, of whom he had this will, did
217 I, 0 |            the Father invariably, and of his own accord, the Son
218 I, 0 |            when a rational being, not of compulsion, but freely,
219 I, 0 |          desires a thing who approves of the desire of another, though
220 I, 0 |            who approves of the desire of another, though he does
221 I, 0 |      fortitude for the accomplishment of some good design; though
222 I, 0 |            Since, therefore, the will of the Son pleased the Father,
223 I, 0 |            whatsoever things are said of him, similar to these which
224 I, 0 |                not by compulsion, but of free choice. For he was
225 I, 0 |            omnipotent, and it is said of him, when he was offered
226 I, 0 |            from me, but I lay it down of myself; I have power to
227 I, 0 |              to a thing which he does of his own power and will.~
228 I, 0 |              Son.~Anselm.. Yes, it is of all things most proper that
229 I, 0 |               as relates to the honor of God, and useful for man'
230 I, 0 |         troubles us is, how the death of the Son can be proved reasonable
231 I, 0 |               not clear how the death of the Son avails for the salvation
232 I, 0 |              avails for the salvation of man. For it is a strange
233 I, 0 |                or requires, the blood of the innocent, that he neither
234 I, 0 |          guilty without the sacrifice of the innocent.~Anselm.. Since,
235 I, 0 |           inquiry, you take the place of those who are unwilling
236 I, 0 |              a greater, has the force of necessity.~Boso. In this
237 I, 0 |         concerns only the incarnation of God, and those things which
238 I, 0 |            then, that the incarnation of God, and the things that
239 I, 0 |             the things that we affirm of him as man, had never taken
240 I, 0 |              other things, the belief of which is necessary for eternal
241 I, 0 |           attain happiness, remission of sin is necessary.~Boso.
242 I, 1 |              God?~Anselm.. Every wish of a rational creature should
243 I, 1 |         should be subject to the will of God.~Boso. Nothing is more
244 I, 1 |               justice, or uprightness of will, which makes a being
245 I, 1 |            the sole and complete debt of honor which we owe to God,
246 I, 1 |                and which God requires of us. For it is such a will
247 I, 1 |             exercised, it is pleasing of itself alone, since without
248 I, 1 |               is due to God, robs God of his own and dishonors him;
249 I, 1 |               according to the extent of the injury done, make restoration
250 I, 1 |          could not have been demanded of him, had he not stolen what
251 I, 1 |           ought to pay back the honor of which he has robbed God;
252 I, 2 |            alone, without any payment of debt. ~Anselm.. Let us return
253 I, 2 |            alone, without any payment of the honor taken from him.~
254 I, 2 |         according to the requirements of law, the measure of award
255 I, 2 |      requirements of law, the measure of award is bestowed by God.~
256 I, 2 |              none but Him who is Lord of all; for when the powers
257 I, 2 |              all; for when the powers of the world rightly accomplish
258 I, 2 |              law, and to the judgment of no one, and is so merciful
259 I, 2 |         others.~Anselm.. What you say of God's liberty and choice
260 I, 2 |           simply this: "If the nature of God is such as that he wishes
261 I, 2 |               manner as when we speak of two impossible things: "
262 I, 2 |             anything unjustly, or out of course, it does not belong
263 I, 2 |            who makes no return to God of what the sinner has defrauded
264 I, 2 |         objection which I had thought of bringing against you.~Anselm..
265 I, 3 |              be endured, in the order of things, than that the creature
266 I, 3 |                 Anselm.. In the order of things, there is nothing
267 I, 3 |              honor in the arrangement of things, and which is nothing
268 I, 3 |           more justice than the honor of his own dignity.~Boso. I
269 I, 3 |            himself to be so defrauded of it as that he should neither
270 I, 3 |              is impious even to think of.~Boso. I think that nothing
271 I, 4 |            CHAPTER XIV.~How the honor of God exists in the punishment
272 I, 4 |              exists in the punishment of the wicked. ~Boso. But I
273 I, 4 |            you whether the punishment of the sinner is an honor to
274 I, 4 |          honor. For if the punishment of the sinner is not for God'
275 I, 4 |              the sinner pays his debt of his own accord, or, if he
276 I, 4 |         renders due submission to God of his own will, by avoiding
277 I, 4 |             shows that he is the Lord of man, though man refuses
278 I, 4 |             refuses to acknowledge it of his own accord. And here
279 I, 4 |          avoiding sin; if, on account of his sin, he is deprived
280 I, 4 |               his sin, he is deprived of happiness and every good,
281 I, 4 |              takes away to any object of his own, as man transfers
282 I, 4 |               away serves the purpose of his own honor, for this
283 I, 5 |               or taken from the honor of God. For this honor which
284 I, 5 |              universe, and the beauty of the universe itself, as
285 I, 5 |         disturbs the order and beauty of the universe, as relates
286 I, 5 |         tarnish the power and majesty of God. For if those things
287 I, 5 |               together in the circuit of the heavens desire to be
288 I, 5 |        greater distance from one part of them, they are only so much
289 I, 5 |               he falls into the power of a will that punishes. And
290 I, 5 |             only under the permission of that will; and even this
291 I, 5 |              wayward choice or action of his becomes subservient,
292 I, 5 |               to the order and beauty of the universe before spoken
293 I, 5 |            the universe before spoken of. For when it is understood
294 I, 5 |              that God brings good out of many forms of evil, then
295 I, 5 |         brings good out of many forms of evil, then the satisfaction
296 I, 5 |               not given, the exaction of punishment, hold their own
297 I, 5 |          springing from the violation of the beauty of arrangement,
298 I, 5 |               violation of the beauty of arrangement, and God would
299 I, 5 |          opposes his will to the will of God.~Boso. I know of nothing
300 I, 5 |             will of God.~Boso. I know of nothing which can be said
301 I, 5 |               Go on, until I am weary of listening.~ ~
302 I, 6 |             The reason why the number of angels who fell must be
303 I, 6 |             to make up for the number of angels that fell, from human
304 I, 6 |             sin.~Boso. This is a part of our belief, but still I
305 I, 6 |          discuss only the incarnation of the Deity, and here you
306 I, 6 |         forever, in the contemplation of God, was foreseen by him
307 I, 6 |               or, since they were out of that number, they could
308 I, 6 |        continue to exist, and so fell of necessity. But this last
309 I, 6 |                since they ought to be of that number, either their
310 I, 6 |            either their number should of necessity be made up, or
311 I, 7 |          angels cannot take the place of those who fell. ~Boso. Why
312 I, 7 |              shall see the difficulty of our restoration, you will
313 I, 7 |          understand the impossibility of theirs. But other angels
314 I, 7 |   inconsistency with the completeness of the first creation), because
315 I, 7 |             witnessing the punishment of sin; which, in respect to
316 I, 7 |             are not equally deserving of praise, if one has never
317 I, 7 |             never seen the punishment of sin, and the other forever
318 I, 7 |         angels are upheld by the fall of evil angels, but by their
319 I, 7 |             For, if, without the fall of a part, the rest could not
320 I, 7 |           uphold the rest; but either of these suppositions is absurd.
321 I, 7 |             as I could, when treating of the reason why God did not
322 I, 7 |               appears that the number of men chosen will not be less
323 I, 7 |            will not be less than that of fallen angels. But show,
324 I, 8 |             If the angels, before any of them fell, existed in that
325 I, 8 |        existed in that perfect number of which we have spoken, then
326 I, 8 |              made to supply the place of the lost angels; and it
327 I, 8 |               Boso. I cannot ask more of you.~Anselm.. If man was
328 I, 8 |            was created after the fall of evil angels, as some understand
329 I, 8 |            can prove from this either of these suppositions positively.
330 I, 8 |               though weaker than that of angels, might, as it were,
331 I, 8 |            though made far weaker and of a mortal race, yet, in the
332 I, 8 |          advanced after the overthrow of the evil, because they persevered.
333 I, 8 |      originally, that complete number of angels necessary to perfect
334 I, 8 |         possible; and it would follow of necessity, if they were
335 I, 8 |            time, which is the opinion of the majority, because we
336 I, 8 |                 But if the perfection of the created universe is
337 I, 8 |             not so much in the number of beings, as in the number
338 I, 8 |              beings, as in the number of natures; it follows that
339 I, 8 |             we should not dare affirm of the nature of the smallest
340 I, 8 |             dare affirm of the nature of the smallest reptile. Wherefore,
341 I, 8 |          merely to restore the number of beings possessing another
342 I, 8 |              was not a perfect number of angels, even before a part
343 I, 8 |               a part fell; otherwise, of necessity some men or angels
344 I, 8 |         Anselm.. Had a perfect number of angels been created, and
345 I, 8 |           made only to fill the place of the lost angels, it is plain
346 I, 8 |         rejoice as much over the fall of angels as over their own
347 I, 8 |          restored by the substitution of men, if they (the angels)
348 I, 8 |               rejoicing over the fall of others?" We reply: Cannot
349 I, 8 |              the case similar to that of the Gentiles who were called
350 I, 8 |             righteousness is accepted of him." But since the Jews
351 I, 8 |            was the immediate occasion of their turning to the Gentiles.~
352 I, 8 |          Gentiles.~Boso. I see no way of opposing you.~Anselm.. Whence
353 I, 8 |              to rejoice over the doom of another.~Boso. So it appears.~
354 I, 8 |                Think you that any one of them can have this certainty,
355 I, 8 |          number shall far exceed that of those who fell?~Boso. I
356 I, 8 |              a view to the perfection of that kingdom.~Anselm.. If,
357 I, 8 |               larger number than that of the fallen angels, no one
358 I, 8 |            rejoice over the perdition of another.~Boso. So it appears.~
359 I, 8 |               elected than the number of fallen angels, the incongruity
360 I, 8 |           that the material substance of the world must be renewed,
361 I, 8 |           take place until the number of the elect is accomplished,
362 I, 8 |        effects in the rational nature of its own accord, this also
363 I, 8 |              shows by the arrangement of God. For we are wont to
364 I, 8 |           wont to rejoice in the fame of our ancestors, as when on
365 I, 8 |              as when on the birthdays of the saints we delight with
366 I, 8 |            yet put off the completion of that state until the number
367 I, 8 |           that state until the number of men which he designed should
368 I, 8 |           speak, to an immortal state of bodily existence. For they
369 I, 8 |           they had in paradise a kind of immortality, that is, a
370 I, 8 |             they had not been capable of death. But if God determined
371 I, 8 |            not complete in the number of angels before the destruction
372 I, 8 |         angels before the destruction of the wicked, but God was
373 I, 8 |          renovate the material nature of the world; or that, if that
374 I, 8 |            sinned, until that renewal of the world to which we look
375 I, 8 |         deferred so long, the renewal of the world must be hastened
376 I, 8 |          account, because the renewal of a world just created ought
377 I, 8 |   confirmation to the future renewing of the world seems improper,
378 I, 8 |          being included in the person of our first parents, was in
379 I, 8 |             with the single exception of that man whom God being
380 I, 8 |             able to save from the sin of Adam), so had they not sinned,
381 I, 8 |               But what shall we think of that which is said respecting
382 I, 8 |              has appointed the bounds of the people according to
383 I, 8 |               according to the number of the children of Israel;"
384 I, 8 |            the number of the children of Israel;" which some, because
385 I, 8 |              the expression "children of Israel" is found sometimes "
386 I, 8 |               found sometimes "angels of God," explain in this way,
387 I, 8 |             this way, that the number of elect men taken should be
388 I, 8 |           understood as equal to that of good angels?~Anselm.. This
389 I, 8 |               certain that the number of angels who fell is the same
390 I, 8 |              fell is the same as that of those who stood. For if
391 I, 8 |              them to equal the number of the good angels, in that
392 I, 8 |              false; and if I am aware of it, I will no longer hold
393 I, 8 |               elected than the number of the lost angels, and incline
394 I, 8 |         angels, and incline to either of these opinions rather than
395 I, 8 |               passage which you spoke of: "He has determined the
396 I, 8 |             has determined the bounds of the people (or tribes) according
397 I, 8 |               according to the number of the angels of God;" or as
398 I, 8 |              the number of the angels of God;" or as another translation
399 I, 8 |               according to the number of the children of Israel;"
400 I, 8 |            the number of the children of Israel;" since both translations
401 I, 8 |             both expressions, "angels of God," and "children of Israel,"
402 I, 8 |         angels of God," and "children of Israel," or that elect men
403 I, 8 |       celestial kingdom. Or by angels of God may be understood holy
404 I, 8 |          angels only, and by children of Israel, holy men only; or,
405 I, 8 |             men only; or, by children of Israel, angels only, and
406 I, 8 |            angels only, and by angels of God, holy men. If good angels
407 I, 8 |               same as if only "angels of God" had been used; but
408 I, 8 |           people, that is, the throng of elect men, is to be taken,
409 I, 8 |             be a people in this stage of existence, until the appointed
410 I, 8 |            until the appointed number of that kingdom, not yet completed,
411 I, 8 |              the expression "children of Israel"; for it is not improper
412 I, 8 |               call holy men "children of Israel," as they are called "
413 I, 8 |              as they are called "sons of Abraham." And they can also
414 I, 8 |            properly be called "angels of God," because they imitate
415 I, 8 |         because they imitate the life of angels, and they are promised
416 I, 8 |            live holy lives are angels of God. Therefore the confessors
417 I, 8 |              truth, he is a messenger of God, that is, his angel.
418 I, 8 |               devil, as our Lord says of Judas, because they are
419 I, 8 |              has appointed the bounds of the people according to
420 I, 8 |               according to the number of elect men, because men will
421 I, 8 |          among them, until the number of elect men is accomplished;
422 I, 8 |           when that occurs, the birth of men, which takes place in
423 I, 8 |              cease. But if by "angels of God" we only understand
424 I, 8 |              angels, and by "children of Israel " only holy men;
425 I, 8 |              has appointed the bounds of the people according to
426 I, 8 |               according to the number of the angels of God," viz.,
427 I, 8 |              the number of the angels of God," viz., either that
428 I, 8 |              as there are holy angels of God, or that a people will
429 I, 8 |               earth, until the number of angels is completed from
430 I, 8 |              no other possible method of explanation: "he has appointed
431 I, 8 |              has appointed the bounds of the people according to
432 I, 8 |               according to the number of the children of Israel,"
433 I, 8 |            the number of the children of Israel," that is, that there
434 I, 8 |             be a people in this stage of existence, as I said above,
435 I, 8 |               above, until the number of holy men is completed. And
436 I, 8 |            not follow that the number of lost angels was equal to
437 I, 8 |              angels was equal to that of those who persevered. But
438 I, 8 |               will have to find means of invalidating the reasons
439 I, 8 |              be saved than the number of evil angels.~Boso. I by
440 I, 9 |            for God to fill the places of the fallen angels from among
441 I, 9 |              begun, or he will repent of having undertaken it; either
442 I, 9 |          having undertaken it; either of which is absurd.~Boso. Truly
443 I, 9 |      unpunished, may become the equal of an angel who has never sinned?~
444 I, 9 |          These words I can both think of and utter, but can no more
445 I, 9 |             than I can make truth out of falsehood.~Anselm.. Therefore
446 I, 9 |              leaving out the question of equality with the angels,
447 I, 9 |            the same or a similar kind of happiness as that which
448 I, 9 |             commit it to the treasury of his dearest and most valuable
449 I, 9 |               destined to the society of angels, and allowed the
450 I, 9 |             to cast him into the mire of sin, though truly with man'
451 I, 9 |           stained with the defilement of sin, unwashed, that is,
452 I, 9 |             dare not deny the aptness of your comparison, were God
453 I, 9 |              or else that be repented of his good intent, neither
454 I, 9 |              his good intent, neither of which things is possible
455 I, 9 |             without voluntary payment of the debt, God can neither
456 I, 9 |            every nation prays the God of its faith to put away its
457 I, 9 |             God as with an equal. But of this it is not now needful
458 I, 0 |             to guilt; and that man is of himself unable to accomplish
459 I, 0 |          toils, the delights and ease of this life, and submit obediently
460 I, 0 |             you owe him, irrespective of your past sin, you should
461 I, 0 |             But you owe God every one of those things which you have
462 I, 0 |             such love and such desire of attaining the true end of
463 I, 0 |             of attaining the true end of your being, which is the
464 I, 0 |           being, which is the meaning of prayer, and such grief that
465 I, 0 |               such fear lest you fail of it, that you should find
466 I, 0 |             you or give encouragement of your success. For you do
467 I, 0 |            its own sake, and the want of which at present, together
468 I, 0 |        together with the great danger of never getting it, causes
469 I, 0 |       suffices for the accomplishment of that object. But you ought
470 I, 0 |            which you bestow as a part of your debt, since you know
471 I, 0 |              receive what he has not. Of forgiveness, indeed, I speak
472 I, 0 |             you are both the servants of one Lord, made by him out
473 I, 0 |             one Lord, made by him out of nothing. And if you avenge
474 I, 0 |              it is the peculiar right of God, the judge of all. But
475 I, 0 |               right of God, the judge of all. But what do you give
476 I, 0 |              things I pay any portion of my debt to God.~Anselm..
477 I, 0 |             Anselm.. What will become of you then? How will you be
478 I, 0 |               arguments, I see no way of escape. But, turning to
479 I, 0 |            Anselm.. This is only said of those who either looked
480 I, 1 |              that you did not owe any of those things which you have
481 I, 1 |             look contrary to the will of God.~Boso. Did I not hear
482 I, 1 |            estimated the great burden of sin.~Boso. Show it me then.~
483 I, 1 |            find yourself in the sight of God, and one said to you: "
484 I, 1 |             look contrary to the will of God.~Boso. I can find no
485 I, 1 |              a thing against the will of God?~Boso. When I consider
486 I, 1 |               as contrary to the will of God, I know of nothing so
487 I, 1 |               the will of God, I know of nothing so grievous, and
488 I, 1 |              nothing so grievous, and of no loss that will compare
489 I, 1 |          Anselm.. This is in the case of man, who often does not
490 I, 1 |              loss; but God is in want of nothing, and, should all
491 I, 1 |          ought not to oppose the will of God even to preserve the
492 I, 1 |              were more worlds as full of beings as this?~Boso. Were
493 I, 1 |             knowingly oppose the will of God even in the slightest
494 I, 1 |               greater than the amount of that obligation, which should
495 I, 1 |              bound at all by the debt of sin, because He ought not
496 I, 1 |               not for the consolation of faith.~Anselm.. But listen.~
497 I, 2 |               as it were in the place of God, between God and the
498 I, 2 |             so to vindicate the honor of God and put the devil to
499 I, 2 |                without compulsion and of his own accord, allowed
500 I, 2 |              brought over to the will of the devil, contrary to the