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501 II, 9|        conclusion, that the Divine and human natures must unite
502 II, 9|          must unite in one person, and that this is evidently more
503 II, 0|         this man dies not of debt; and in what sense he can or
504 II, 0|        sense he can or cannot sin; and how neither he nor an angel
505 II, 0|         but as of one whom we know and whose deeds we know; who,
506 II, 0|            a liar, like unto you," and, in this sentence, makes
507 II, 0|          liar, as he himself says, and therefore a sinner. Therefore,
508 II, 0|            that he could say this, and also that he could not sin.~
509 II, 0|            my power, but necessity and the power of another; since
510 II, 0|  understand, if he chose to do so. And, since he could not lie
511 II, 0|          could not lie unwillingly and could not wish to lie, none
512 II, 0|            both true that he could and could not lie.~Boso. Now
513 II, 0|   maintains holiness of necessity, and therefore he will not be
514 II, 0|           to say that God made man and angel capable of sinning
515 II, 0|         might deserve commendation and reward, which they would
516 II, 0|            to God, who cannot sin, and yet has not deserved this,
517 II, 0|          that now they cannot sin. And in this respect are they
518 II, 0|          take it away when he can; and to do a thing is but the
519 II, 0|         could depart from holiness and yet did not, and could make
520 II, 0|          holiness and yet did not, and could make himself unholy
521 II, 0|      conferred virtue upon himself and made himself holy. In this
522 II, 0|         himself in any other way), and, therefore, should be praised
523 II, 0|          things which he possesses and maintains not by any necessity,
524 II, 0|         necessity but voluntarily, and, therefore, will deserve
525 II, 0|        satisfied me on this point; and I see clearly that it is
526 II, 0|        true that he could not sin, and yet that he deserves praise
527 II, 0|           he did not create angels and our first parents so as
528 II, 0|            to be incapable of sin, and yet praiseworthy for their
529 II, 0|        Boso. I think I understand, and it is therefore I ask why
530 II, 0|            as we say that man was. And if you ask why he did not
531 II, 1|      Christ dies of his own power, and how mortality does not inhere
532 II, 1|       since he will be really man, and every man is by nature mortal.~
533 II, 1|       Since, had man never sinned, and had his immortality been
534 II, 1|           have been as really man; and, when the dying rise again,
535 II, 1|       accrues to him from the one, and misery from the other. But
536 II, 1|          immortal in all respects. And so it is not enough to prove
537 II, 1|         chooses, lay down his life and take it again.~Boso. If
538 II, 1|         avoid death if he chooses, and also to die and rise again.
539 II, 1|           chooses, and also to die and rise again. Moreover, whether
540 II, 1|       allow it, he could be slain; and if he were unwilling to
541 II, 1|           reason.~Boso. Speak you, and I will listen with pleasure.~
542 II, 1|          to atone with difficulty? And if he was overcome by the
543 II, 1|           not bound by obligation; and man cannot give himself
544 II, 1|        account of his omnipotence, and one who does not deserve
545 II, 1|         common intercourse of men, and maintain a likeness to them,
546 II, 1|            them, only without sin. And these things are more easily
547 II, 1|       these things are more easily and clearly manifest in his
548 II, 1|       clearly manifest in his life and actions than they can possibly
549 II, 1|          who can say how necessary and wise a thing it was for
550 II, 1|         who was to redeem mankind, and lead them back by his teaching
551 II, 1|     teaching from the way of death and destruction into the path
552 II, 1|  destruction into the path of life and eternal happiness, when
553 II, 1|        when he conversed with men, and when he taught them by personal
554 II, 1|         given this example to weak and dying men, that they should
555 II, 2|         that he ought to be mortal and to partake of our weaknesses.
556 II, 2|           the choice is a wise one and made without compulsion.~
557 II, 3|           with the highest wisdom; and, therefore, God will not
558 II, 3|          he perform works, so many and so great, without the highest
559 II, 3|            they find him ignorant? And if he be ignorant, what
560 II, 3|       loved except as it is known, and there be no good thing which
561 II, 3|          distinguish it from evil; and no one can make this distinction
562 II, 3|          so there will be no need, and therefore no propriety,
563 II, 3|          away the good of knowing. And to answer your question
564 II, 3|        will be always full of God; and, therefore, will never want
565 II, 3|       often certain about a thing, and yet cannot prove it by reason.~ ~
566 II, 4|         death outweighs the number and greatness of our sins. ~
567 II, 4|            can outweigh the number and magnitude of our sins, when
568 II, 4|          that man here before you, and you knew who he was, and
569 II, 4|           and you knew who he was, and it were told you that, if
570 II, 4|          those of this world, past and future, but also all others
571 II, 4|     conceived of, than this alone. And I think I ought to say this,
572 II, 4|             Anselm.. You say well; and hence we see that no enormity
573 II, 4|          hateful as they are evil, and that life is only amiable
574 II, 4|          proportion as it is good. And, therefore, it follows that
575 II, 4|         help seeing this.~Anselm.. And do you not think that so
576 II, 5|         how can his death overcome and destroy the sins of those
577 II, 5|            many men will be saved, and a vast many will not be
578 II, 5|            sin knowingly committed and a sin done ignorantly are
579 II, 5|           at least, slay the Lord; and, therefore, those who did
580 II, 5|          must be made up from men, and that this can only be by
581 II, 5|           at the same time Divine, and reconcile sinners to God
582 II, 5|          we confess to be both God and man, died for us; and, when
583 II, 5|          God and man, died for us; and, when this is known beyond
584 II, 5|          true, for God cannot lie, and all he does must be received
585 II, 5|        Boso. What you say is true; and I do not for a moment doubt
586 II, 5|           that his words are true, and all that he does reasonable.
587 II, 5|            improper or impossible; and this, not to strengthen
588 II, 6|           from a sinful substance, and yet without sin; and of
589 II, 6|    substance, and yet without sin; and of the salvation of Adam
590 II, 6|           of the salvation of Adam and Eve. ~Boso. As, therefore,
591 II, 6|    conception of this man be pure, and free from the sin of fleshly
592 II, 6|         was conceived in iniquity, and in sin did her mother bear
593 II, 6|            for that man to be God, and also the restorer of sinners,
594 II, 6|            he be taken without sin and yet of a sinful substance.
595 II, 6|            was not for the sinner, and was not in opposition to
596 II, 6|         thing it is, also, for God and man to unite in one person,
597 II, 6|         same being may be both God and man! Who, then, will dare
598 II, 6|            a mystery in this life, and I do not desire you to do
599 II, 6|           belonging to their race, and that all the rest were irretrievably
600 II, 6|  irretrievably under condemnation. And suppose that he who alone
601 II, 6|         great favor with the king, and so deep love for us, as
602 II, 6|         for us, as to be both able and willing to save all those
603 II, 6|           trusted in his guidance; and this because of a certain
604 II, 6|           according to his desire; and, inasmuch as those who are
605 II, 6|        work that day accomplished, and to subscribe to the condition
606 II, 6|         freed from all past guilt; and, if they sinned after this
607 II, 6|          sinned after this pardon, and yet wished to render atonement
608 II, 6|         wished to render atonement and to be set right again by
609 II, 6|       complete the heavenly state, and those creatures which he
610 II, 6|            For if this is more fit and reasonable than that at
611 II, 6|            for which God made man, and there is no further objection
612 II, 6|           of this promised pardon. And, therefore, we must not
613 II, 6|           must not doubt that Adam and Eve obtained part in that
614 II, 6|  incredible that God created them, and unchangeably determined
615 II, 6|           for the celestial state, and yet should exclude these
616 II, 6|       their sins before his birth, and he was born of her in her
617 II, 6|         his purity from his mother and not from himself.~Anselm..
618 II, 6|           him, he also was pure by and of himself.~ ~
619 II, 7|           true faith in his death, and, if she were not pure, he
620 II, 7|           other to the act itself; and that, though having the
621 II, 7|      nature as not to wish to lie, and, therefore, deserved praise
622 II, 7|            the power of preserving and the power of wishing to
623 II, 7|            wishing to preserve it. And when the question is asked
624 II, 7|         purpose of escaping death. And since this disposition,
625 II, 7|          similar, the power to lie and the power to preserve his
626 II, 7|       became man for this purpose, and it was on the faith of his
627 II, 7|             Boso. Yes, since dying and wishing to die are included
628 II, 7|            he should suffer death, and that the virgin from whom
629 II, 7|         spoken that the Son of God and the man whose person he
630 II, 7|           being should be both God and man, the Son of God and
631 II, 7|            and man, the Son of God and the son of the virgin?~Boso.
632 II, 7|            could possibly both die and avoid death.~Boso. I cannot
633 II, 7|   necessity, but of his own power, and the will of that man was
634 II, 7|          virgin who gave him birth and many others also were cleansed
635 II, 7|          Because this was his free and unchangeable desire.~Anselm..
636 II, 7|           he was certainly to die, and was on this account certainly
637 II, 7|            because it was his free and unchangeable desire, it
638 II, 7|          to learned men, but to me and my fellow inquirers? Suffer
639 II, 7|        question you as my slowness and dullness require, so that,
640 II, 8|       necessity nor impossibility, and what is a coercive necessity,
641 II, 8|           is a coercive necessity, and what one that is not so.~
642 II, 8|       necessity. For all necessity and impossibility is under his
643 II, 8|            he does what he chooses and nothing else, as no necessity
644 II, 8|            be true that his choice and action are immutable. And
645 II, 8|          and action are immutable. And as, when God does a thing,
646 II, 8|           has invincible authority and strength. For we mean simply
647 II, 8|             but in something else; and that it cannot be when the
648 II, 8|            Somebody can bind him," and, "He cannot be bound," instead
649 II, 8|            not power but weakness, and not to be able to be overcome
650 II, 8|           compulsion or restraint; and these two kinds of necessity
651 II, 8|            thing is both necessary and impossible. For whatever
652 II, 8|      prevented from non-existence; and that which is compelled
653 II, 8|            cannot avoid existence, and it is impossible for a thing
654 II, 8|         necessity of nonexistence, and vice versa. But when we
655 II, 8|            for God to utter truth, and never to lie, we only mean
656 II, 8|            he should suffer death. And this desire nothing could
657 II, 8|           should remain unchanged. And, as I said before, when
658 II, 8|            to do some good action, and afterwards goes on to complete
659 II, 8|            only agent in the case. And, if this is so with regard
660 II, 8|           according to his choice, and his will no force can drive
661 II, 8|         human nature could not do; and that in the human should
662 II, 8|          turn out as she believed. And, if it perplexes you to
663 II, 8|       because the antecedent faith and prophecy were true, this
664 II, 8|           is the cause of a thing, and there is also a subsequent
665 II, 8|       revolve, it is an antecedent and efficient necessity, for
666 II, 8|           nothing but a subsequent and inoperative necessity. For
667 II, 8|        impossible for you to speak and not to speak at the same
668 II, 8|            speak at the same time, and not that some one compels
669 II, 8|         singularibus et futuris"), and which seems to destroy any
670 II, 8|            destroy any alternative and to ascribe a necessity to
671 II, 8|         things. By this subsequent and imperative necessity, was
672 II, 8|        necessary (since the belief and prophecy concerning Christ
673 II, 8|        became man; for this he did and suffered all things undertaken
674 II, 8|           because they were to be, and they were to be because
675 II, 8|           to be because they were, and they were because they were;
676 II, 8|            were because they were; and, if you wish to know the
677 II, 8|            all things which he did and suffered, know that they
678 II, 8|            laid it down of himself and took it again; for he had
679 II, 8|           had power to lay it down and to take it again, as he
680 II, 8|            death by any necessity; and I cannot regret my importunity
681 II, 8|       since this appears adequate, and since in search of other
682 II, 8|           as that of original sin, and how it was transmitted by
683 II, 8|           of whom we are speaking; and since, also, we should be
684 II, 8|        this account of the matter, and go on to complete our intended
685 II, 8|       proposed in the first place, and which involves many others
686 II, 8|         done it in some other way. And you, by numerous and positive
687 II, 8|          way. And you, by numerous and positive reasons, have shown
688 II, 8|           ought not to take place, and could not, without man paid
689 II, 8|           he owed God for his sin. And this debt was so great that,
690 II, 8|           does it must be both God and man. And hence arises a
691 II, 8|          must be both God and man. And hence arises a necessity
692 II, 8|            formed from the virgin, and from the person of the Son
693 II, 8|          person of the Son of God, and that he could be taken without
694 II, 8|          to have been so excellent and so glorious as to make ample
695 II, 8|           sins of the whole world, and even infinitely more. It
696 II, 9|           God for the sins of men, and in what sense Christ ought,
697 II, 9|           what sense Christ ought, and in what sense he ought not,
698 II, 9|           could be perfectly holy, and yet forever preserve his
699 II, 9|       things else but God himself, and is able to atone for all
700 II, 9|     insults put upon him, violence and even crucifixion among thieves
701 II, 9|         persons before his coming, and John the Baptist after his
702 II, 9|           need of his ever losing, and paid for sinners what he
703 II, 9|            of anything for himself and not compelled by others,
704 II, 9|          what was best to be done, and what he knew would be more
705 II, 9|           which he knew to be best and most pleasing to God, and
706 II, 9|          and most pleasing to God, and especially since every creature
707 II, 9|            owes God all that he is and all that he knows and all
708 II, 9|           is and all that he knows and all that he is capable of?~
709 II, 9|            is positively demanded. And, whichever he does, it may
710 II, 9|            that he ought to do it; and if he takes the better choice,
711 II, 9|            he who chooses marriage and he who prefers celibacy,
712 II, 9|       things, this he ought to do. And if a man preserves his celibacy
713 II, 9|           to be the better choice, and what he is able to do, if
714 II, 9|            marry if be prefers it. And if you are unable to understand
715 II, 9|   sometimes do the words "posse, " and "non posse, " and also "
716 II, 9|         posse, " and "non posse, " and also "necessitas," when
717 II, 9|        ought to be subject to him. And he wishes that all creatures
718 II, 9|          wishes to be ought to be. And, in like manner, when any
719 II, 9|        ought to be what he wished, and was not bound to do anything
720 II, 9|            debt. As he is both God and man, in connection with
721 II, 9|            be complete in himself, and could not have been under
722 II, 9|         this my own reason proves, and yet he ought to have done
723 II, 9|      belongs to the whole Trinity; and, since he is very God, the
724 II, 9|          as for that of the Father and the Holy Spirit; that is,
725 II, 9|            man he offered himself. And, by the names of Father
726 II, 9|             by the names of Father and Son, a wondrous depth of
727 II, 0|          on one who needs nothing, and to whom no gift or release
728 II, 0|            necessity for a reward, and on the other it appears
729 II, 0|          payment for what he owes, and yet there is no one to receive
730 II, 0|           But if a reward so large and so deserved is not given
731 II, 0|        think it would be both just and necessary that the gift
732 II, 0|         give away what is his own, and the Father cannot bestow
733 II, 0|            teaches, he became man; and for whose sake, as we have
734 II, 0|            which he does not need, and of the superfluity of his
735 II, 0|      possessions, than his parents and brethren? What more proper
736 II, 0|           down by so heavy a debt, and wasting through poverty,
737 II, 0|            incurred by their sins, and give them what their transgressions
738 II, 0|        more sweet, more desirable. And I receive such confidence
739 II, 0|            not, if he come aright. And the Scriptures, which rest
740 II, 0|           as on a firm foundation, and which, by the help of God,
741 II, 0|         order to share such favor, and how we ought to live under
742 II, 0|            to live under it.~Boso. And whatever is built on this
743 II, 0|            do it still more fully, and there are doubtless many
744 II, 0|        reasons which are beyond me and which mortal ken does not
745 II, 0|    demanded of man, he owed to God and not to the devil.~ ~
746 II, 1|              CHAPTER XX.~How great and how just is God's compassion. ~
747 II, 1|         considering God's holiness and man's sin; we have found
748 II, 1|          found it, I say, so great and so consistent with his holiness,
749 II, 1|         doomed to eternal torments and having noway of escape: "
750 II, 1|          Take my only begotten Son and make him an offering for
751 II, 1|        words of the Son: "Take me, and ransom your souls." For
752 II, 1|          they utter, when inviting and leading us to faith in the
753 II, 2|            sins of his companions. And as man must not be restored
754 II, 2|         from one, as all men were. And there is another objection
755 II, 2|            to them from the first. And, therefore, if any one thinks
756 II, 2|       reason he has been deceived. And I do not say this as if
757 II, 2|        exceeds all the sins of men and angels, but because infallible
758 II, 3|           How the truth of the Old and New Testament is shown in
759 II, 3|         said seem to me reasonable and incontrovertible. And by
760 II, 3|   reasonable and incontrovertible. And by the solution of the single
761 II, 3|            is contained in the Old and New Testament. For, in proving
762 II, 3|            persons of the Trinity, and on Adam, you convince both
763 II, 3|             you convince both Jews and Pagans by the mere force
764 II, 3|          the mere force of reason. And the God-man himself originates
765 II, 3|       originates the New Testament and approves the Old. And, as
766 II, 3|    Testament and approves the Old. And, as we must acknowledge