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  1 pre  |            work had been completed and revised. I have therefore
  2 pre  |           I could, more hurriedly, and so more briefly, than I
  3 pre  |             For had an undisturbed and adequate period been allowed
  4 pre  |           I should have introduced and subjoined many things about
  5 pre  |       anguish of heart, the origin and reason of which are known
  6 pre  |         began the book in England, and finished it when an exile
  7 pre  |           called it Cur Deus Homo, and have divided it into two
  8 pre  |        deem it contrary to reason; and also the reply of believers;
  9 pre  |            the reply of believers; and, in fine, leaving Christ
 10 pre  |           shown by plain reasoning and fact that human nature was
 11 pre  |          immortality, both in body and in soul; and that it was
 12 pre  |          both in body and in soul; and that it was necessary that
 13 pre  |   fulfilled unless God became man, and unless all things were to
 14 I, 1 |           rests.~I HAVE been often and most earnestly requested
 15 I, 1 |           by many, both personally and by letter, that I would
 16 I, 1 |         these proofs gratify them, and are considered sufficient.
 17 I, 1 |         gladdened by understanding and meditating on those things
 18 I, 1 |         things which they believe; and that, as far as possible,
 19 I, 1 |          that hope which is in us. And this question, both infidels
 20 I, 1 |    Christian simplicity as absurd; and many believers ponder it
 21 I, 1 |          in sooth, God became man, and by his own death, as we
 22 I, 1 |           own death, as we believe and affirm, restored life to
 23 I, 1 |         themselves in this inquiry and seek for its solution. Therefore,
 24 I, 1 |          to consider this subject, and, though it seem very difficult
 25 I, 1 |            to all in the solution, and attractive for the value
 26 I, 1 |           attractive for the value and beauty of the reasoning;
 27 I, 1 |           said by the holy fathers and their successors, yet I
 28 I, 1 |        seen fit to lay open to me. And since investigations, which
 29 I, 1 |         are carried on by question and answer, are thus made more
 30 I, 1 |           made more plain to many, and especially to less quick
 31 I, 1 |    especially to less quick minds, and on that account are more
 32 I, 1 |         this way Boso may question and Anselm reply.~ ~
 33 I, 2 |            ask, for what necessity and cause God, who is omnipotent,
 34 I, 2 |        have assumed the littleness and weakness of human nature
 35 I, 2 |           thing which is above me, and therefore I tremble to take
 36 I, 2 |         what before lay concealed; and that you should hope for
 37 I, 2 |      required a knowledge of Power and Necessity and Will and certain
 38 I, 2 |   knowledge of Power and Necessity and Will and certain other subjects
 39 I, 2 |       Power and Necessity and Will and certain other subjects which
 40 I, 2 |         examined without the rest; and so the discussion of these
 41 I, 2 |            for the present object, and what remains to be said
 42 I, 2 |           so rich a theme in rough and vulgar diction.~Boso. Even
 43 I, 2 |            the learned but for me, and those asking the same thing
 44 I, 2 |           observe your earnestness and that of those who desire
 45 I, 2 |        thing with you, out of love and pious zeal, I will try to
 46 I, 2 |         with the assistance of God and your prayers, which, when
 47 I, 2 |            the thing sought is one and the same. And if you bring
 48 I, 2 |        sought is one and the same. And if you bring up anything
 49 I, 3 |             Objections of infidels and replies of believers.~Boso.
 50 I, 3 |            us that we do injustice and dishonor to God when we
 51 I, 3 |            the nourishment of milk and the food of men; and, passing
 52 I, 3 |          milk and the food of men; and, passing over many other
 53 I, 3 |            hunger, thirst, stripes and crucifixion among thieves.~
 54 I, 3 |            all the heart, praising and proclaiming the ineffable
 55 I, 3 |          astonishing a thing it is and beyond expectation, that
 56 I, 3 |          restored us from so great and deserved ills in which we
 57 I, 3 |         which we were, to so great and unmerited blessings which
 58 I, 3 |            his more exceeding love and tenderness towards us. For
 59 I, 3 |           life should be restored. And, as sin, the cause of our
 60 I, 3 |        author of our righteousness and salvation to be born of
 61 I, 3 |   salvation to be born of a woman. And so also was it proper that
 62 I, 4 |          not decisive to infidels, and merely like so many pictures.~
 63 I, 4 |          admitted to be beautiful, and like so many pictures; but,
 64 I, 4 |       precious, was wholly ruined, and that it was not seemly that
 65 I, 4 |         should fall to the ground; and, moreover, that this purpose
 66 I, 5 |         not of a sinful substance, and not a descendant of any
 67 I, 5 |          but just as he made Adam, and by this man it should seem
 68 I, 5 |            only the servant of God and an equal with the holy angels,
 69 I, 5 |           a being who was not God, and whom the angels did not
 70 I, 6 |          redeemed us by his death, and thus has shown his love
 71 I, 6 |         shown his love towards us, and that he came to overcome
 72 I, 6 |  redemption by so many sufferings, and finally by his own blood?
 73 I, 6 |          finally by his own blood? And when we tell them that he
 74 I, 6 |            freed us from our sins, and from his own wrath, and
 75 I, 6 |            and from his own wrath, and from hell, and from the
 76 I, 6 |          own wrath, and from hell, and from the power of the devil,
 77 I, 6 |           we were unable to do it, and that he purchased for us
 78 I, 6 |          us the kingdom of heaven; and that, by doing all these
 79 I, 6 |         man is free from his sins, and from the wrath of God, and
 80 I, 6 |         and from the wrath of God, and from hell, and from the
 81 I, 6 |       wrath of God, and from hell, and from the power of the devil,
 82 I, 6 |         are the sufferings of sin; and, what he had lost by reason
 83 I, 6 |       displaying his love, he does and suffers the things which
 84 I, 7 |           on his side against man; and why it was, that he seemed
 85 I, 7 |          he seemed to have had it, and why God could have freed
 86 I, 7 |           nothing worthy of death, and who was God, he should justly
 87 I, 7 |            his power over sinners; and that, if it were not so,
 88 I, 7 |         man belong to any but God, and neither can exist without
 89 I, 7 |           desert their common Lord and come over to himself; who,
 90 I, 7 |            man merited punishment, and there was no more suitable
 91 I, 7 |          wickedness, permitted it. And, in my opinion, those who
 92 I, 7 |           tormenting of the devil, and that God in justice permits
 93 I, 7 |           in justice permits this; and therefore they suppose that
 94 I, 7 |        sometimes both just unjust, and hence, by those who do not
 95 I, 7 |          innocent person unjustly, and hence justly deserves to
 96 I, 7 |          then he does it unjustly. And hence this violence on the
 97 I, 7 |           same action is both just and unjust, for it may chance
 98 I, 7 |       shall consider it only just, and another only unjust. So
 99 I, 7 |           in justice permits this, and man in justice suffers it.
100 I, 7 |          says was made against us, and cancelled by the death of
101 I, 7 |            by the death of Christ; and if any one thinks that it
102 I, 7 |           should justly demand sin and the punishment of sin, of
103 I, 7 |    judgment of God it was decreed, and, as it were, confirmed by
104 I, 7 |            the spirit is out-going and not returning (est enim
105 I, 7 |            vadens et non rediens); and he who sins ought not to
106 I, 7 |      unless pity spare the sinner, and deliver and restore him.
107 I, 7 |            the sinner, and deliver and restore him. Wherefore we
108 I, 8 |         said of him even as a man; and why it appears to them that
109 I, 8 |           beyond doubt impassible, and that God cannot at all be
110 I, 8 |           Jesus Christ is very God and very man, one person in
111 I, 8 |         one person in two natures, and two natures in one person.
112 I, 8 |     constitution which he assumed. And so there remains no ground
113 I, 8 |          one person is both Divine and human. In the incarnation
114 I, 8 |          whom he was well pleased, and whom the Son made himself?
115 I, 8 |            worthy of condemnation? And so the matter seems to return
116 I, 8 |        shall we sustain his wisdom and justice?~Anselm.. God the
117 I, 8 |            Father even unto death, and that the death of the cross.
118 I, 8 |           has highly exalted him;" and that "he learned obedience
119 I, 8 |         things which he suffered;" and that God spared not his
120 I, 8 |           gave him up for us all." And likewise the Son says: "
121 I, 8 |         will of him that sent me." And when about to suffer, he
122 I, 8 |            shall I not drink it? " And, at another time : "Father,
123 I, 8 |           will, but as you will ." And again: "Father, if this
124 I, 9 |           own accord that he died, and what this means: "he was
125 I, 9 |        obedient even unto death; " and: "for which cause God has
126 I, 9 |           has highly exalted him;" and: "I came not to do my own
127 I, 9 |           not to do my own will; " and: "he spared not his own
128 I, 9 |           spared not his own Son;" and: "not as I will, but as
129 I, 9 |           the demand of obedience, and what he suffered, not demanded
130 I, 9 |            else, but that, in word and in life, he invariably maintained
131 I, 9 |        invariably maintained truth and justice.~Anselm.. I believe
132 I, 9 |           of every rational being, and every being owes this in
133 I, 9 |         Father, humanity to Deity; and the Father claimed it from
134 I, 9 |        obedience.~Boso. Very true, and I see also what infliction
135 I, 9 |          perseverance in obedience and he endured it; but I do
136 I, 9 |        have been subject to death, and that God would not have
137 I, 9 |            creature was made holy, and for this purpose, viz.,
138 I, 9 |            commandment, so he did, and the cup which He gave to
139 I, 9 |          He gave to him, he drank; and he was made obedient to
140 I, 9 |          Father, even unto death;" and thus "he learned obedience
141 I, 9 |          obedient even unto death, and that the death of the cross,"
142 I, 9 |           God also has exalted him and given him a name, which
143 I, 9 |        which is above every name." And this is similar to what
144 I, 9 |    committed to him by the Father, and that all things belonging
145 I, 9 |         had agreed with the Father and the Holy Spirit, that there
146 I, 9 |            a boat or on horseback, and suppose that I delay crossing
147 I, 9 |            me: the boat was ready, and therefore he crossed. And
148 I, 9 |          and therefore he crossed. And we not only use this form
149 I, 9 |           for it was through this, and after this, that he determined
150 I, 9 |          Lord increased in wisdom, and in favor with God; not that
151 I, 9 |           will, but as you will ;" and "If this cup may not pass
152 I, 9 |            which I have mentioned. And this, since none other could
153 I, 9 |          had commanded him to die; and, therefore, "as the Father
154 I, 9 |            commandment, so he did, and the cup which the Father
155 I, 0 |       Likewise on the same topics; and how otherwise they can be
156 I, 0 |            yet not by compulsion), and the cup of suffering, and
157 I, 0 |          and the cup of suffering, and spared him not, but gave
158 I, 0 |             but gave him up for us and desired his death; and that
159 I, 0 |          us and desired his death; and that the Son himself was
160 I, 0 |          obedient even unto death, and learned obedience from the
161 I, 0 |            from whom is every good and perfect gift. And as the
162 I, 0 |       every good and perfect gift. And as the Father is said to
163 I, 0 |            he gives him this will. And in this drawing or impelling
164 I, 0 |         any constraint, but a free and grateful clinging to the
165 I, 0 |            death of his own accord and to take the cup, which he
166 I, 0 |             which he freely drank. And if it is right to say that
167 I, 0 |            but gave him up for us, and desired his death? In this
168 I, 0 |        from the Father invariably, and of his own accord, the Son
169 I, 0 |           to Him, even unto death; and learned obedience from the
170 I, 0 |        obedience. For this is real and sincere obedience when a
171 I, 0 |            Son pleased the Father, and be did not prevent him from
172 I, 0 |            endure death so piously and for so great an object,
173 I, 0 |            not otherwise be saved; and it was his fixed choice
174 I, 0 |         for them but by his death; and not to show that he had
175 I, 0 |             For he was omnipotent, and it is said of him, when
176 I, 0 |            up, that he desired it. And he says himself: "I lay
177 I, 0 |         have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it
178 I, 0 |           he does of his own power and will.~Boso. But this simple
179 I, 0 |       relates to the honor of God, and useful for man's salvation,
180 I, 0 |           can be proved reasonable and necessary. For otherwise,
181 I, 0 |        save man in some other way, and if so, why he wished to
182 I, 0 |        have saved man in this way; and it is not clear how the
183 I, 0 |          be ascribed to the Deity, and that we do not reject the
184 I, 0 |            the incarnation of God, and those things which we believe
185 I, 0 |            the incarnation of God, and the things that we affirm
186 I, 0 |             had never taken place; and be it agreed between us
187 I, 0 |          be attained in this life, and that no being can ever arrive
188 I, 0 |          save by freedom from sin, and that no man passes this
189 I, 1 |     CHAPTER XI.~What it is to sin, and to make satisfaction for
190 I, 1 |          God puts away men's sins; and, in order to do this more
191 I, 1 |        consider what it is to sin, and what it is to make satisfaction
192 I, 1 |             It is yours to explain and mine to listen.~Anselm..
193 I, 1 |         This is the debt which man and angel owe to God, and no
194 I, 1 |          man and angel owe to God, and no one who pays this debt
195 I, 1 |           heart, that is, in will; and this is the sole and complete
196 I, 1 |         will; and this is the sole and complete debt of honor which
197 I, 1 |         honor which we owe to God, and which God requires of us.
198 I, 1 |        does works pleasing to God; and when this will cannot be
199 I, 1 |           God, robs God of his own and dishonors him; and this
200 I, 1 |         his own and dishonors him; and this is sin. Moreover, so
201 I, 1 |         away, he remains in fault; and it will not suffice merely
202 I, 1 |           which he has robbed God; and this is the satisfaction
203 I, 2 |             Anselm.. Let us return and consider whether it were
204 I, 2 |           else than not to punish; and since it is not right to
205 I, 2 |      difference between the guilty and the not guilty; and this
206 I, 2 |         guilty and the not guilty; and this is unbecoming to God.~
207 I, 2 |           seems very inconsistent. And to these is also added a
208 I, 2 |           to be subject to no law, and to the judgment of no one,
209 I, 2 |            the judgment of no one, and is so merciful as that nothing
210 I, 2 |         merciful can be conceived; and nothing is right or fit
211 I, 2 |           you say of God's liberty and choice and compassion is
212 I, 2 |           God's liberty and choice and compassion is true; but
213 I, 2 |           what God wishes is just, and that what He does not wish
214 I, 2 |            that he wishes to lie;" and, therefore, it does not
215 I, 2 |         Supposing water to be dry, and fire to be moist;" for neither
216 I, 2 |         right that it should rain; and if he desires that any man
217 I, 3 |          the honor due the Creator and not restore what he takes
218 I, 3 |         the honor due the Creator, and not restore what he has
219 I, 3 |         the arrangement of things, and which is nothing else but
220 I, 3 |           respect to both parties; and this it is impious even
221 I, 4 |         that he cannot recover it. And this seems in contradiction
222 I, 4 |           even against man's will, and thus shows that he is the
223 I, 4 |  acknowledge it of his own accord. And here we must observe that
224 I, 4 |           is deprived of happiness and every good, he repays from
225 I, 4 |           he shows that the sinner and all that pertains to him
226 I, 5 |          to injury is not entirely and perfectly preserved.~Anselm..
227 I, 5 |           the condition belonging, and, as it were, allotted to
228 I, 5 |            him, he is said to obey and honor God; and to this,
229 I, 5 |        said to obey and honor God; and to this, rational nature,
230 I, 5 | intelligence, is especially bound. And when the being chooses what
231 I, 5 |            freely under God's will and disposal, and maintains
232 I, 5 |           God's will and disposal, and maintains his own condition
233 I, 5 |         condition in the universe, and the beauty of the universe
234 I, 5 |          freely to God's disposal. And he disturbs the order and
235 I, 5 |          And he disturbs the order and beauty of the universe,
236 I, 5 |       injure nor tarnish the power and majesty of God. For if those
237 I, 5 |  approaching them. For both whence and whither and in what way
238 I, 5 |            both whence and whither and in what way they go, they
239 I, 5 |           still under the heavens; and if they are at a greater
240 I, 5 |       nearer to the opposite part. And so, though man or evil angel
241 I, 5 |          submit to the Divine will and appointment, yet he cannot
242 I, 5 |           of a will that punishes. And if you ask whither he goes,
243 I, 5 |           permission of that will; and even this wayward choice
244 I, 5 |      infinite wisdom, to the order and beauty of the universe before
245 I, 5 |   punishment, hold their own place and orderly beauty in the same
246 I, 5 |         the beauty of arrangement, and God would appear to be deficient
247 I, 5 |       deficient in his management. And these two things are not
248 I, 6 |          incarnation of the Deity, and here you are bringing in
249 I, 6 |          loveth a cheerful giver;" and no one shows better how
250 I, 6 |            its happiness, both now and forever, in the contemplation
251 I, 6 |            in a certain reasonable and complete number, so that
252 I, 6 |       could not continue to exist, and so fell of necessity. But
253 I, 7 |        seen the punishment of sin, and the other forever witnesses
254 I, 7 |         manner as those who stood; and this manner I explained,
255 I, 7 |      restored from the human race; and from this reasoning it appears
256 I, 8 |          place of the lost angels; and it is plain that their number
257 I, 8 |       together, then both the loss and the original deficiency
258 I, 8 |          must be made up from men, and more men will be chosen
259 I, 8 |          there were fallen angels. And so we shall say that men
260 I, 8 |         created perfect in number, and that afterwards man was
261 I, 8 |         when it had been lessened; and it is also possible that
262 I, 8 |       creation took place at once, and those days in which Moses
263 I, 8 |         things were created at one and the same time, it should
264 I, 8 |           should seem that angels, and the first two human beings,
265 I, 8 |           part should be restored; and that human nature, which
266 I, 8 |           as it were, justify God, and put the devil to silence,
267 I, 8 |    attribute his fall to weakness. And in case human nature fell,
268 I, 8 |     justify God against the devil, and even against itself, because,
269 I, 8 |             though made far weaker and of a mortal race, yet, in
270 I, 8 |          since, supposing that man and angels were not created
271 I, 8 |            time, this is possible; and it would follow of necessity,
272 I, 8 |            it was made for itself, and not merely to restore the
273 I, 8 |          in the celestial kingdom. And hence it follows that there
274 I, 8 |            of angels been created, and had man been made only to
275 I, 8 |         nation he that feareth God and worketh righteousness is
276 I, 8 |          are not more men elected; and since it is impossible that
277 I, 8 |            made perfect in number, and that there will be more
278 I, 8 |         the world must be renewed, and that this will not take
279 I, 8 |         the elect is accomplished, and that happy kingdom made
280 I, 8 |        happy kingdom made perfect, and that after its completion
281 I, 8 |          which ought to enjoy God; and that the inferior, being
282 I, 8 |        creature having so glorious and excellent a consummation,
283 I, 8 |       might delight in its Creator and in itself, in turn, rejoicing
284 I, 8 |          rejoicing in their honor. And this opinion derives support
285 I, 8 |       designed should be made out, and men themselves be transferred,
286 I, 8 |        bring to perfection, at one and the same time, that intelligent
287 I, 8 |        same time, that intelligent and happy state and this earthly
288 I, 8 |        intelligent and happy state and this earthly and irrational
289 I, 8 |       happy state and this earthly and irrational nature; it follows
290 I, 8 |           was not in confirmation, and its confirmation must be
291 I, 8 |     immediately after it was made, and to destroy in the very beginning
292 I, 8 |           accomplished it in some, and since we know that in regard
293 I, 8 |            elect than evil angels, and elect men must needs be
294 I, 8 |   substituted for the evil angels, and it is possible for them
295 I, 8 |           Scriptures, it is false; and if I am aware of it, I will
296 I, 8 |         number of the lost angels, and incline to either of these
297 I, 8 |        them favor different sides, and there is nowhere found anything
298 I, 8 |      expressions, "angels of God," and "children of Israel," or
299 I, 8 |         meant, or that both angels and elect men are included,
300 I, 8 |       understood holy angels only, and by children of Israel, holy
301 I, 8 |            of Israel, angels only, and by angels of God, holy men.
302 I, 8 |        angels only, or even angels and holy men together, are meant
303 I, 8 |          called "sons of Abraham." And they can also properly be
304 I, 8 |        imitate the life of angels, and they are promised in heaven
305 I, 8 |            in heaven a likeness to and equality with angels, and
306 I, 8 |          and equality with angels, and all who live holy lives
307 I, 8 |        called; for he who declares and bears witness to the truth,
308 I, 8 |           God, that is, his angel. And if a wicked man is called
309 I, 8 |             because men will exist and there will be a natural
310 I, 8 |         elect men is accomplished; and when that occurs, the birth
311 I, 8 |            understand holy angels, and by "children of Israel "
312 I, 8 |          completed from among men. And I think there is no other
313 I, 8 |          of holy men is completed. And we infer from either translation
314 I, 8 |           number before mentioned, and that there are more men
315 I, 9 |         fell will not be restored, and it will follow that God
316 I, 9 |          that man, who has sinned, and never made satisfaction
317 I, 9 |          words I can both think of and utter, but can no more perceive
318 I, 9 |           Boso. Tell your opinion, and I will attend to it as well
319 I, 9 |            had never been defiled, and which could not be taken
320 I, 9 |            without his permission; and that he determined to commit
321 I, 9 |            treasury of his dearest and most valuable possessions.~
322 I, 9 |            be struck from his hand and cast in the mire, though
323 I, 9 |           might have prevented it; and afterwards taking it all
324 I, 9 |          it all soiled by the mire and unwashed, should commit
325 I, 9 |          it again to his beautiful and loved casket; will you consider
326 I, 9 |          not be far better to keep and preserve his pearl pure,
327 I, 9 |         his own hand, without sin, and destined to the society
328 I, 9 |          to the society of angels, and allowed the devil, inflamed
329 I, 9 |          without any satisfaction, and always to remain so; should
330 I, 9 |   comparison, were God to do this, and therefore do not admit that
331 I, 9 |            away our sins from us," and every nation prays the God
332 I, 9 |           every creature owes God; and, therefore, it does not
333 I, 9 |       suffices me for the present. And, moreover, you have so clearly
334 I, 0 |            proportionate to guilt; and that man is of himself unable
335 I, 0 |         Boso. Repentance, a broken and contrite heart, self-denial,
336 I, 0 |         sufferings, pity in giving and forgiving, and obedience.~
337 I, 0 |           in giving and forgiving, and obedience.~Anselm.. What
338 I, 0 |            God, when, for his love and fear, in heartfelt contrition
339 I, 0 |  contrition I give up worldly joy, and despise, amid abstinence
340 I, 0 |           despise, amid abstinence and toils, the delights and
341 I, 0 |            and toils, the delights and ease of this life, and submit
342 I, 0 |    delights and ease of this life, and submit obediently to him,
343 I, 0 |           possessions in giving to and releasing others?~Anselm..
344 I, 0 |          there should be such love and such desire of attaining
345 I, 0 |          is the meaning of prayer, and such grief that you have
346 I, 0 |           yet reached this object, and such fear lest you fail
347 I, 0 |        thing which you do not love and desire for its own sake,
348 I, 0 |           desire for its own sake, and the want of which at present,
349 I, 0 |         requires one to avoid ease and worldly pleasures such as
350 I, 0 |            the mind from real rest and pleasure, except so far
351 I, 0 |         whose servant both you are and he also to whom you give.
352 I, 0 |          he also to whom you give. And nature herself teaches you
353 I, 0 |           as you would be done by; and that he who will not bestow
354 I, 0 |        made by him out of nothing. And if you avenge yourself upon
355 I, 0 |          from you all that you are and have and can become?~Boso.
356 I, 0 |          all that you are and have and can become?~Boso. Truly
357 I, 0 |           justice I owe God myself and all my powers, even when
358 I, 0 |        love," that I may be saved, and the more, since we read
359 I, 0 |            turns from his iniquity and does what is right, all
360 I, 0 |            But we set aside Christ and his religion as if they
361 I, 1 |      yourself in the sight of God, and one said to you: "Look thither;"
362 I, 1 |            to you: "Look thither;" and God, on the other hand,
363 I, 1 |           away all such necessity, and ask with regard to this
364 I, 1 |         God himself, should perish and fall back into nothing,
365 I, 1 |            of nothing so grievous, and of no loss that will compare
366 I, 1 |         God is in want of nothing, and, should all things perish,
367 I, 1 |   increased to an infinite extent, and held before me in like manner,
368 I, 1 |           are always in his sight, and he always enjoins it upon
369 I, 1 |       Reason seems to demand this, and to make the contrary wholly
370 I, 2 |          place of God, between God and the devil, to conquer the
371 I, 2 |        yielding to his temptation, and so to vindicate the honor
372 I, 2 |         vindicate the honor of God and put the devil to shame,
373 I, 2 |            that man, though weaker and dwelling upon earth, should
374 I, 2 |         the devil, though stronger and in heaven, sinned without
375 I, 2 |          without any to tempt him. And when man could have easily
376 I, 2 |             he, without compulsion and of his own accord, allowed
377 I, 2 |        devil, contrary to the will and honor of God.~Boso. To what
378 I, 2 |         kind, that, as in strength and immortal vigor, he freely
379 I, 2 |       yielded to the devil to sin, and on this account justly incurred
380 I, 2 |         death; so, in his weakness and mortality, which he had
381 I, 2 |    transgression, man is conceived and born in sin.~Boso. Again
382 I, 2 |           the thing is impossible, and reason approves what you
383 I, 2 |         cannot be justly effected, and the impossibility is the
384 I, 3 |           voice of strict justice; and judge according to that
385 I, 3 |         took what belonged to God, and God was the loser, so in
386 I, 3 |            devil may be despoiled, and God recover his right.~Boso.
387 I, 3 |      Anselm.. Therefore man cannot and ought not by any means to
388 I, 3 |        human nature was corrupted, and, as it were, tainted with
389 I, 3 |            were, tainted with sin, and God will not choose one
390 I, 3 |      things, the compassion of God and the hope of man seems to
391 I, 4 |           God.~Boso. If he can pay and yet does not, he is certainly
392 I, 4 |           a certain piece of work, and should command him not to
393 I, 4 |         which he points out to him and from which he could not
394 I, 4 |       could not extricate himself; and suppose that the slave,
395 I, 4 |     despising his master's command and warning, throws himself
396 I, 4 |        what he was commanded to do and in doing what he was forewarned
397 I, 4 |          debt which he cannot pay, and by his own fault disabled
398 I, 4 |            he can neither do right and avoid sin, nor restore the
399 I, 4 |          that he loses that power, and falls into this inability.
400 I, 4 |            is exceedingly weighty, and must be true.~Anselm.. Man,
401 I, 4 |        unjust, both in not paying, and in not being able to pay.~
402 I, 4 |           He abates the punishment and makes man happy on account
403 I, 4 |            to have this inability, and therefore as long as he
404 I, 4 |           atonement it is his sin. And truly such compassion on
405 I, 4 |          cannot, he will be needy, and if he does not wish to,
406 I, 4 |          for the miserable wretch, and God's compassion seems to
407 I, 4 |       merciful, who preserveth man and beast, according to the
408 I, 4 |         man happy after this life. And I think that I have amply
409 I, 4 |          not been wholly put away; and that this remission ought
410 I, 4 |    according to the extent of sin. And if you think that any objections
411 I, 4 |         neither pays what he owes, and ought not to be saved without
412 I, 4 |        Christ for man's salvation, and you should also request
413 I, 4 |        them cease from mocking us, and let them hasten to unite
414 I, 4 |     despair of being saved at all. And if this terrifies them,
415 I, 5 |          man can be happy somehow, and it has been sufficiently
416 I, 5 |            saved in any other way, and yet, not understanding how
417 I, 5 |          what he is unable to pay, and cannot be saved without
418 I, 5 |          would go further with me, and enable me to understand,
419 I, 5 |            if we hope to be saved; and how they avail for the salvation
420 I, 5 |          for the salvation of man, and how God saves man by compassion;
421 I, 5 |         due on account of his sin. And, to make your reasoning
422 I, 5 |     trusting in myself but in God, and will do what I can with
423 II, 1|           order to discern justice and injustice, good and evil,
424 II, 1|        justice and injustice, good and evil, and between the greater
425 II, 1|          injustice, good and evil, and between the greater and
426 II, 1|            and between the greater and the lesser good. Otherwise
427 II, 1|        purpose, that he might hate and shun evil, and love and
428 II, 1|          might hate and shun evil, and love and choose good, and
429 II, 1|            and shun evil, and love and choose good, and especially
430 II, 1|          and love and choose good, and especially the greater good.
431 II, 1|            useless unless he loved and avoided according to it.
432 II, 1|            this end, viz., to love and choose the highest good
433 II, 1|        supremely, for its own sake and nothing else; for if the
434 II, 1|        reason, then something else and not itself would be the
435 II, 1|        this purpose, both rational and holy. Now, if it was made
436 II, 1|            holy in order to choose and love the highest good, then
437 II, 1|            sometimes what it loved and chose, or else it was not.
438 II, 1|         might follow what it loves and chooses, then in vain was
439 II, 1|           vain was it made to love and choose holiness; and there
440 II, 1|          love and choose holiness; and there can be no reason why
441 II, 1|          it will be holy in loving and choosing the supreme good,
442 II, 2|     inconsistent with God's wisdom and justice to compel man to
443 II, 3|         for eternity, both in body and in soul; so, if he persevere
444 II, 5|            a compulsory necessity; and what is the nature of that
445 II, 5|      removes or lessens gratitude, and what necessity increases
446 II, 5|         gratitude to a benefactor, and there is also a necessity
447 II, 5|   necessity of benefiting another, and sustains that necessity
448 II, 5|           judgment of an apostate, and, although he may be compelled
449 II, 5|      liberty, for the sake of God; and he cannot be said to live
450 II, 5|           he begun it for our sake and not his own. For what man
451 II, 5|          from God at his creation; and yet by freely creating man,
452 II, 5|            restrained in anything. And when we say that God does
453 II, 5|         belongs to him in himself, and is not derived from another;
454 II, 5|          not derived from another; and therefore it is not properly
455 II, 6|         kingdom be made up of men, and this cannot be effected
456 II, 6|        which none but God can make and none but man ought to make,
457 II, 7|            being to be perfect God and perfect man. ~Anselm.. The
458 II, 7|          man. ~Anselm.. The Divine and human natures cannot alternate,
459 II, 7|           in that case be only God and not man, or man only and
460 II, 7|           and not man, or man only and not God. Or, if they were
461 II, 7|           from two animals, a male and a female of different species,
462 II, 7|          be of a nature both human and Divine, cannot be produced
463 II, 7|          while the other is human, and yet that which is God not
464 II, 7|     because he has no debt to pay; and man will not do it, because
465 II, 7|           being should perfect God and perfect man, in order to
466 II, 7|           atonement. For he cannot and ought not to do it, unless
467 II, 7|          it, unless he be very God and very man. Since, then, it
468 II, 7|         one person, just as a body and a reasonable soul exist
469 II, 7|           being should be very God and very man.~Boso. All that
470 II, 8|           man of the race of Adam, and born of a woman. ~Anselm..
471 II, 8|          remains to inquire whence and how God shall assume human
472 II, 8|         which descended from Adam, and therefore ought not to make
473 II, 8|         Therefore, as through Adam and Eve sin was propagated among
474 II, 8|      atonement for the sin of men. And, since they cannot, one
475 II, 8|            work. Moreover, as Adam and his whole race, had he not
476 II, 8|            the same race must rise and be exalted by means of itself.
477 II, 8|        human nature in Adam alone, and would only make woman out
478 II, 8|          had, had not Adam sinned, and so will not be completely
479 II, 8|            be completely restored; and, besides, God will seem
480 II, 8|          be produced from a father and mother, as other men are,
481 II, 8|         will be produced from Adam and Eve, for from these two
482 II, 8|           of either sex descended. And of these three modes, no
483 II, 8|         into existence in a nobler and purer manner, if produced
484 II, 8|           man, viz., either of man and woman, in the common way;
485 II, 8|         mode also under his power, and was reserved for this very
486 II, 8|   emptiness, but upon solid truth, and tell how clearly fitting
487 II, 8|           it is that, as man's sin and the cause of our condemnation
488 II, 8|          woman, so the cure of sin and the source of our salvation
489 II, 8|          also be found in a woman. And that women may not despair
490 II, 8|          the occasion of all good. And this also. If woman, whom
491 II, 8|           certainly very beautiful and reasonable.~ ~
492 II, 9|            persons cannot take one and the same man into a unity
493 II, 9|         this personal unity of God and man, and in which of the
494 II, 9|     personal unity of God and man, and in which of the Divine persons
495 II, 9|            before the incarnation, and he also who, by the incarnation,
496 II, 9|          be the son of the virgin; and among the persons which
497 II, 9|         the parents of the virgin, and the Word, though having
498 II, 9|       these things are incongruous and do not pertain to the incarnation
499 II, 9|           incarnation of the Word. And there is yet another reason
500 II, 9|           for whom he was to pray, and the devil, whom he was to