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  1 pre  |  whosesoever hands it may fall, as he looks on the face of it,
  2 I, 1 |            life to the world; when he might have done this, by
  3 I, 2 |         that I do not satisfy him, he will rather believe that
  4 I, 2 |          any one to talk better if he can, so you preclude none
  5 I, 3 |            God when we affirm that he descended into the womb
  6 I, 3 |         the womb of a virgin, that he was born of woman, that
  7 I, 3 |            was born of woman, that he grew on the nourishment
  8 I, 3 |      incompatible with Deity, that he endured fatigue, hunger,
  9 I, 3 |           beyond expectation, that he has restored us from so
 10 I, 3 |            by so much the more has he shown his more exceeding
 11 I, 4 |          wishes to make a picture, he selects something substantial
 12 I, 5 |            of any man, but just as he made Adam, and by this man
 13 I, 5 |          being? Now if this be so, he would in no wise be restored
 14 I, 5 |            would have been his had he never sinned. For he, who
 15 I, 5 |           had he never sinned. For he, who was to be through eternity
 16 I, 6 |          love towards us, and that he came to overcome the devil
 17 I, 6 |         And when we tell them that he freed us from our sins,
 18 I, 6 |           power of the devil, whom he came to vanquish for us,
 19 I, 6 |          unable to do it, and that he purchased for us the kingdom
 20 I, 6 |            doing all these things, he manifested the greatness
 21 I, 6 |   powerless. Or, if you grant that he could have done these things
 22 I, 6 |       wisdom, when you assert that he desired, without any reason,
 23 I, 6 |       sufferings of sin; and, what he had lost by reason of these
 24 I, 6 |           by reason of these sins, he now regains. For, in whose
 25 I, 6 |        than that you mention, when he could have done it by his
 26 I, 6 |         severe toil, a thing which he could have done in some
 27 I, 6 |         shown in this way how much he loved you, there is no argument
 28 I, 6 |           unless it be proved that he could not otherwise have
 29 I, 6 |            have saved man. For, if he could not have done it otherwise,
 30 I, 6 |            this way. But now, when he could have saved man differently,
 31 I, 6 |            of displaying his love, he does and suffers the things
 32 I, 6 |            you enumerate? For does he not show good angels how
 33 I, 6 |          show good angels how much he loves them, though he suffer
 34 I, 6 |         much he loves them, though he suffer no such things as
 35 I, 7 |          man; and why it was, that he seemed to have had it, and
 36 I, 7 |           devil in justice, before he did in strength, so that,
 37 I, 7 |            death, and who was God, he should justly lose his power
 38 I, 7 |            in suo), or what should he do but punish his servant,
 39 I, 7 |            fellow-thief, with what he had stolen from his Lord.
 40 I, 7 |         than by that being to whom he had given his consent to
 41 I, 7 |          devil; on the other hand, he was even more unrighteous
 42 I, 7 |       unrighteous in this, because he was not led to it by a love
 43 I, 7 |           a malicious impulse. For he did not do this at the command
 44 I, 7 |         one who was beaten, though he ought not to avenge himself,
 45 I, 7 |          person who beat him, then he does it unjustly. And hence
 46 I, 7 |            blow is unjust, because he ought not to avenge himself;
 47 I, 7 |      avenge himself; but as far as he who received the blow is
 48 I, 7 |   concerned, it is just, for since he gave a blow unjustly, he
 49 I, 7 |           he gave a blow unjustly, he justly deserves to receive
 50 I, 7 |           justice itself, but that he is punished by the just
 51 I, 7 |         for the first sin to which he tempted man, so that in
 52 I, 7 |           man, so that in this way he seems to prove his right
 53 I, 7 |        that, since man had sinned, he should not henceforth of
 54 I, 7 |        vadens et non rediens); and he who sins ought not to escape
 55 I, 8 |     sufficient reason for us, when he does anything, though we
 56 I, 8 |           though we cannot see why he does it. For the will of
 57 I, 8 |         nor toil in anything which he wishes to effect. But we
 58 I, 8 |           human constitution which he assumed. And so there remains
 59 I, 8 |            his beloved Son in whom he was well pleased, and whom
 60 I, 8 |           of all men? What man, if he condemned the innocent to
 61 I, 8 |            mentioned above. For if he could not save sinners in
 62 I, 8 |          omnipotence? If, however, he could, but did not wish
 63 I, 8 |        will, but of his own accord he endured death for the salvation
 64 I, 8 |            against his will, since he agreed to the will of the
 65 I, 8 |            exalted him;" and that "he learned obedience from the
 66 I, 8 |    obedience from the things which he suffered;" and that God
 67 I, 8 |          And when about to suffer, he says; "As the Father has
 68 I, 9 |         was of his own accord that he died, and what this means: "
 69 I, 9 |        died, and what this means: "he was made obedient even unto
 70 I, 9 |            do my own will; " and: "he spared not his own Son;"
 71 I, 9 |            difference between what he did at the demand of obedience,
 72 I, 9 |      demand of obedience, and what he suffered, not demanded by
 73 I, 9 |          inflicted on him, because he kept his obedience perfect.~
 74 I, 9 |         that, in word and in life, he invariably maintained truth
 75 I, 9 |          Anselin. Now you see what he did, under the demand of
 76 I, 9 |           see also what infliction he endured, because he stood
 77 I, 9 |     infliction he endured, because he stood firm in obedience.
 78 I, 9 |      perseverance in obedience and he endured it; but I do not
 79 I, 9 |            man to suffer death, if he had never sinned, or should
 80 I, 9 |      miserable without fault, when he had created him holy that
 81 I, 9 |          had created him holy that he might enjoy a state of blessedness.
 82 I, 9 |          compel Christ to die; but he suffered death of his own
 83 I, 9 |          maintaining holiness; for he held out so firmly in this
 84 I, 9 |      firmly in this obedience that he met death on account of
 85 I, 9 |         commanded him to die, when he enjoined that upon him on
 86 I, 9 |            him on account of which he met death. It was in this
 87 I, 9 |            him the commandment, so he did, and the cup which He
 88 I, 9 |          he did, and the cup which He gave to him, he drank; and
 89 I, 9 |          cup which He gave to him, he drank; and he was made obedient
 90 I, 9 |         gave to him, he drank; and he was made obedient to the
 91 I, 9 |        even unto death;" and thus "he learned obedience from the
 92 I, 9 |    obedience from the things which he suffered," that is, how
 93 I, 9 |      didicit" is written for this: he caused others to learn;
 94 I, 9 |             or it is used, because he did learn by experience
 95 I, 9 |           learn by experience what he had an understanding of
 96 I, 9 |        when the Apostle had said: "he humbled himself, being made
 97 I, 9 |       similar to what David said: "he drank of the brook in the
 98 I, 9 |          in the way, therefore did he lift up the head." For it
 99 I, 9 |           For it is not meant that he could not have attained
100 I, 9 |       reward of his obedience (for he himself said before he suffered,
101 I, 9 |         for he himself said before he suffered, that all things
102 I, 9 |         expression is used because he had agreed with the Father
103 I, 9 |           was ready, and therefore he crossed. And we not only
104 I, 9 |         delays taking food because he has not to-day attended
105 I, 9 |           that has been done which he wished to do first, it is
106 I, 9 |           on this account, because he endured death; for it was
107 I, 9 |         this, and after this, that he determined to accomplish
108 I, 9 |          really the case, but that he deported himself as if it
109 I, 9 |      himself as if it were so. For he was exalted after his death,
110 I, 9 |            of himself, but of God, he ought not to call his own,
111 I, 9 |            one has the truth which he teaches, or a holy will,
112 I, 9 |       means nothing more than that he did not rescue him. For
113 I, 9 |      things like this. Again, when he says: "Father, if it be
114 I, 9 |            it, your will be done;" he signifies by his own will
115 I, 9 |          the anguish of death. But he speaks of the will of the
116 I, 9 |         not demand of another what he could not do, therefore,
117 I, 9 |       therefore, the Son says that he desires his own death. For
118 I, 9 |         desires his own death. For he preferred to suffer, rather
119 I, 9 |         race should be lost; as if he were to say to the Father: "
120 I, 9 |           desires a thing, because he does not choose something
121 I, 9 |            existence of that which he is said to desire; for instance,
122 I, 9 |         instance, when we say that he who does not choose to close
123 I, 9 |          death of the Son, because he was not willing that the
124 I, 9 |           gave him commandment, so he did, and the cup which the
125 I, 9 |       which the Father gave to him he drank, being obedient even
126 I, 0 |    obedience from the things which he suffered. For as with regard
127 I, 0 |            led him to a holy life, he did not have it as a human
128 I, 0 |            also that will by which he desired to die for the accomplishment
129 I, 0 |   accomplishment of so great good, he could not have had but from
130 I, 0 |         improper in asserting that he moves man. For as the Son
131 I, 0 |       except the Father draw him," he might as well have said,
132 I, 0 |          as well have said, except he move him. In like manner,
133 I, 0 |           like manner, also, could he have declared: "No man layeth
134 I, 0 |          by his will to that which he invariably chooses, it is
135 I, 0 |            draws or moves him when he gives him this will. And
136 I, 0 |          that, in the same manner, he gave him commandment to
137 I, 0 |         and to take the cup, which he freely drank. And if it
138 I, 0 |           that the Father, of whom he had this will, did not spare
139 I, 0 |    obedience from the things which he suffered; that is, be learned
140 I, 0 |     sufficient. For as we say that he desires a thing who causes
141 I, 0 |          it; so, also, we say that he desires a thing who approves
142 I, 0 |          desire of another, though he does not cause that desire.
143 I, 0 |             accustomed to say that he who can prevent a thing
144 I, 0 |            desires the thing which he does not prevent. Since,
145 I, 0 |           it is proper to say that he wished the Son to endure
146 I, 0 |            great an object, though he was not pleased with his
147 I, 0 |           his suffering. Moreover, he said that the cup must not
148 I, 0 |          not pass from him, except he drank it, not because he
149 I, 0 |           he drank it, not because he could not have escaped death
150 I, 0 |         not have escaped death had he chosen to; but because,
151 I, 0 |            this reason, also, that he used those words, viz.,
152 I, 0 |        death; and not to show that he had no power at all to avoid
153 I, 0 |    accordance with the belief that he died, not by compulsion,
154 I, 0 |            but of free choice. For he was omnipotent, and it is
155 I, 0 |            it is said of him, when he was offered up, that he
156 I, 0 |            he was offered up, that he desired it. And he says
157 I, 0 |            that he desired it. And he says himself: "I lay down
158 I, 0 |            driven to a thing which he does of his own power and
159 I, 0 |          to be so treated, even if he were willing, does not seem
160 I, 0 |          other way, and if so, why he wished to do it in this
161 I, 0 |        blood of the innocent, that he neither chooses, nor is
162 I, 1 |           rendered to God his due, he would never sin.~Boso. I
163 I, 1 |          it no work is acceptable. He who does not render this
164 I, 1 |          sin. Moreover, so long as he does not restore what he
165 I, 1 |           he does not restore what he has taken away, he remains
166 I, 1 |            what he has taken away, he remains in fault; and it
167 I, 1 |  considering the contempt offered, he ought to restore more than
168 I, 1 |         ought to restore more than he took away. For as one who
169 I, 1 |           the anguish incurred; so he who violates another's honor
170 I, 1 |    satisfactory to the person whom he has dishonored. We must
171 I, 1 |        that when any one pays what he has unjustly taken away,
172 I, 1 |           has unjustly taken away, he ought to give something
173 I, 1 |          been demanded of him, had he not stolen what belonged
174 I, 1 |            back the honor of which he has robbed God; and this
175 I, 2 |            is right or fit save as he wills; it seems a strange
176 I, 2 |      wishes is just, and that what He does not wish is unjust,
177 I, 2 |            be just, simply because he wished it. For if God wishes
178 I, 2 |            to lie, but rather that he is not God. For no will
179 I, 2 |      nature of God is such as that he wishes to lie;" and, therefore,
180 I, 2 |            thing, it is right that he should desire that which
181 I, 2 |        that it should rain; and if he desires that any man should
182 I, 2 |         die, then is it right that he should die. Wherefore, if
183 I, 3 |       Creator and not restore what he takes away. ~Anselm.. In
184 I, 3 |      Creator, and not restore what he has taken away.~Boso. Nothing
185 I, 3 |            not restore to God what he has taken away.~Boso. No;
186 I, 3 |           Does it seem to you that he wholly preserves it, if
187 I, 3 |            wholly preserves it, if he allows himself to be so
188 I, 3 |            defrauded of it as that he should neither receive satisfaction
189 I, 3 |         not be just to himself, or he will be weak in respect
190 I, 4 |           sinner does not pay what he took away, but is punished,
191 I, 4 |            loses his honor so that he cannot recover it. And this
192 I, 4 |          of his own accord, or, if he refuse, God takes it from
193 I, 4 |          will, and thus shows that he is the Lord of man, though
194 I, 4 |         that belong to a man which he has in present possession,
195 I, 4 |             on account of his sin, he is deprived of happiness
196 I, 4 |          happiness and every good, he repays from his own inheritance
197 I, 4 |           his own inheritance what he has stolen, though he repay
198 I, 4 |         what he has stolen, though he repay it against his will.
199 I, 4 |            God does not apply what he takes away to any object
200 I, 4 |          transfers the money which he has taken from another to
201 I, 4 |           to his own use; yet what he takes away serves the purpose
202 I, 4 |        taken away. For by this act he shows that the sinner and
203 I, 5 |            his own honor, why does he allow it to be violated
204 I, 5 |          it were, allotted to him, he is said to obey and honor
205 I, 5 |        when the being chooses what he ought, he honors God; not
206 I, 5 |       being chooses what he ought, he honors God; not by bestowing
207 I, 5 |     anything upon him, but because he brings himself freely under
208 I, 5 |           as in him lies. But when he does not choose what he
209 I, 5 |            he does not choose what he ought, he dishonors God,
210 I, 5 |          not choose what he ought, he dishonors God, as far as
211 I, 5 |      himself is concerned, because he does not submit himself
212 I, 5 |      freely to God's disposal. And he disturbs the order and beauty
213 I, 5 |       relates to himself, although he cannot injure nor tarnish
214 I, 5 |          will and appointment, yet he cannot escape it; for if
215 I, 5 |           cannot escape it; for if he wishes to fly from a will
216 I, 5 |         from a will that commands, he falls into the power of
217 I, 5 |             And if you ask whither he goes, it is only under the
218 I, 5 |          honor or dishonor God, as he is in himself; but the creature,
219 I, 5 |            the creature, as far as he is concerned, appears to
220 I, 5 |            appears to do this when he submits or opposes his will
221 I, 6 |            from human nature which he created without sin.~Boso.
222 I, 6 |        shows better how cheerfully he gives what he promises,
223 I, 6 |           cheerfully he gives what he promises, than he who gives
224 I, 6 |       gives what he promises, than he who gives more than he promises;
225 I, 6 |        than he who gives more than he promises; therefore, tell
226 I, 6 |             which is false; or, if he did know, then he appointed
227 I, 6 |           or, if he did know, then he appointed such a number
228 I, 6 |         appointed such a number as he perceived was most fitting.
229 I, 8 |          completing the number, as he does even now, determining
230 I, 8 |           it were also diminished, He would restore it. But if
231 I, 8 |           the devil to silence, if he were to attribute his fall
232 I, 8 |        majority, because we read: "He, who liveth forever, created
233 I, 8 |       called; for "in every nation he that feareth God and worketh
234 I, 8 |            had not another fallen, he would never have attained
235 I, 8 |           attained the place where he now is?~Anselm.. If, then,
236 I, 8 |           can any one know whether he were created to restore
237 I, 8 |          can or ought to know that he would not have attained
238 I, 8 |            the number of men which he designed should be made
239 I, 8 |           complete it by men, when he should renovate the material
240 I, 8 |        world seems improper, since he so quickly accomplished
241 I, 8 |            not sinned as they did, he would have confirmed them,
242 I, 8 |            man in servitude, after he has yielded to it at the
243 I, 8 |        confirm him in liberty when he has adhered to it in the
244 I, 8 |           is said respecting God: "He has appointed the bounds
245 I, 8 |       passage which you spoke of: "He has determined the bounds
246 I, 8 |         martyrs are so called; for he who declares and bears witness
247 I, 8 |        bears witness to the truth, he is a messenger of God, that
248 I, 8 |           called an angel, because he follows holiness? Wherefore
249 I, 8 |            method of explanation: "he has appointed the bounds
250 I, 8 |           if any one affirms this, he will have to find means
251 I, 9 |          accomplish the good which he begun, or he will repent
252 I, 9 |            good which he begun, or he will repent of having undertaken
253 I, 9 |            happiness as that which he had before he sinned.~Boso.
254 I, 9 |           that which he had before he sinned.~Boso. Tell your
255 I, 9 |           his permission; and that he determined to commit it
256 I, 9 |      supposition.~Anselm.. What if he should allow it to be struck
257 I, 9 |           cast in the mire, though he might have prevented it;
258 I, 9 |           acting like this, should he restore man, stained with
259 I, 9 |        always to remain so; should He restore him at once to paradise,
260 I, 9 |            to paradise, from which he had been thrust out?~Boso.
261 I, 9 |        therefore do not admit that he can do this. For it should
262 I, 9 |          could not accomplish what he designed, or else that be
263 I, 9 |         happiness like that, which he had before he sinned; for
264 I, 9 |          that, which he had before he sinned; for man cannot in
265 I, 9 |        restored, or become such as he was before he sinned.~Boso.
266 I, 9 |       become such as he was before he sinned.~Boso. I am wholly
267 I, 9 |            supplicate in vain that he will do what he cannot do,
268 I, 9 |          vain that he will do what he cannot do, because it is
269 I, 9 |            is unbecoming?~Anselm.. He who does not pay says in
270 I, 9 |        says in vain: "Pardon"; but he who pays makes supplication,
271 I, 0 |           servant both you are and he also to whom you give. And
272 I, 0 |         would be done by; and that he who will not bestow what
273 I, 0 |           who will not bestow what he has ought not to receive
274 I, 0 |          ought not to receive what he has not. Of forgiveness,
275 I, 0 |           are not your own, nor is he who injures you yours or
276 I, 0 |            owed him already, since he demands from you all that
277 I, 0 |           who believe in him since he has appeared. But we set
278 I, 1 |       property, so that afterwards he is glad that we opposed
279 I, 1 |          restore them as easily as he created them.~Boso. I must
280 I, 1 |           always in his sight, and he always enjoins it upon us
281 I, 1 |           the debt of sin, because He ought not to.~Boso. This
282 I, 2 |         man brought upon God, when he allowed himself to be conquered
283 I, 2 |         have easily effected this, he, without compulsion and
284 I, 2 |           overcoming the devil, as he dishonored him in yielding
285 I, 2 |       strength and immortal vigor, he freely yielded to the devil
286 I, 2 |      weakness and mortality, which he had brought upon himself,
287 I, 2 |          had brought upon himself, he should conquer the devil
288 I, 3 |         from God by his sin, which he has no power to repay. ~
289 I, 3 |            man take from God, when he allowed himself to be overcome
290 I, 3 |         man take from God whatever He had purposed to do for human
291 I, 3 |            man restore to God what he took from God in allowing
292 I, 3 |       designed to give him, unless he return to God everything
293 I, 3 |            to God everything which he took from him; so that,
294 I, 3 |       suffered loss, by man, also, He might recover His loss.
295 I, 4 |          man does not restore what he owes God, he cannot be happy,
296 I, 4 |          restore what he owes God, he cannot be happy, nor is
297 I, 4 |            cannot be happy, nor is he excused by want of power. ~
298 I, 4 |    fellow-man a debt, much more is he unjust who does not restore
299 I, 4 |          who does not restore what he owes God.~Boso. If he can
300 I, 4 |         what he owes God.~Boso. If he can pay and yet does not,
301 I, 4 |          can pay and yet does not, he is certainly unjust. But
302 I, 4 |           certainly unjust. But if he be not able, wherein is
303 I, 4 |            be not able, wherein is he unjust?~Anselm.. Indeed,
304 I, 4 |        himself into a ditch, which he points out to him and from
305 I, 4 |          out to him and from which he could not extricate himself;
306 I, 4 |          increase his crime, since he brought his inability upon
307 I, 4 |            himself. For doubly has he sinned, in not doing what
308 I, 4 |          sinned, in not doing what he was commanded to do and
309 I, 4 |            to do and in doing what he was forewarned not to do.~
310 I, 4 |          upon himself a debt which he cannot pay, and by his own
311 I, 4 |          disabled himself, so that he can neither escape his previous
312 I, 4 |        inability is guilt, because he ought not to have it; nay,
313 I, 4 |         ought not to have it; nay, he ought to be free from it;
314 I, 4 |           a crime not to have what he ought, it is also a crime
315 I, 4 |          also a crime to have what he ought not. Therefore, as
316 I, 4 |           to have that power which he received to avoid sin, it
317 I, 4 |            that inability by which he can neither do right and
318 I, 4 |         nor restore the debt which he owes on account of his sin.
319 I, 4 |           his own free action that he loses that power, and falls
320 I, 4 |          inability to restore what he owes to God, an inability
321 I, 4 |          unjust in not paying what he owes to God.~Boso. This
322 I, 4 |             This is very true; for he is unjust, both in not paying,
323 I, 4 |          think otherwise.~Anselm.. He, then, who does not pay
324 I, 4 |          who does not pay God what he owes can never be happy.~
325 I, 4 |        suppliant his debt, because he cannot pay; God must be
326 I, 4 |      saying that God gives up what he is unable to obtain? But
327 I, 4 |           But if God gives up what he was about to take from unwilling
328 I, 4 |          is unable to restore what he ought to restore freely,
329 I, 4 |           ought to restore freely, He abates the punishment and
330 I, 4 |        account of his sin, because he has what he ought not to
331 I, 4 |           sin, because he has what he ought not to have. For he
332 I, 4 |          he ought not to have. For he ought not to have this inability,
333 I, 4 |           and therefore as long as he has it without atonement
334 I, 4 |           not pay his debt because he cannot.~Boso. I could wish
335 I, 4 |         man does not make payment, he either wishes to restore,
336 I, 4 |         wishes to restore, or else he does not wish to. Now, if
337 I, 4 |          does not wish to. Now, if he wishes to do what he cannot,
338 I, 4 |            if he wishes to do what he cannot, he will be needy,
339 I, 4 |       wishes to do what he cannot, he will be needy, and if he
340 I, 4 |           he will be needy, and if he does not wish to, he will
341 I, 4 |            if he does not wish to, he will be unjust.~Boso. Nothing
342 I, 4 |           whether needy or unjust, he will not be happy.~Boso.
343 I, 4 |         Anselm.. So long, then, as he does not restore, he will
344 I, 4 |            as he does not restore, he will not be happy.~Boso.
345 I, 4 |            exceeding pity by which he makes man happy after this
346 I, 4 |             shall man be saved, if he neither pays what he owes,
347 I, 4 |            if he neither pays what he owes, and ought not to be
348 I, 5 |       cannot be saved all, or that he can be saved in any other
349 I, 5 |         yet, not understanding how he can be saved by Christ,
350 I, 5 |           necessary truth, because he does not understand how
351 I, 5 |          how it can be?~Boso. That he is a fool.~Anselm.. Then
352 I, 5 |           fool.~Anselm.. Then what he says must be despised.~Boso.
353 I, 5 |            the thing is true which he holds to be impossible.~
354 I, 5 |        upon him, to that for which he made him free from all stain,
355 I, 5 |            to that state for which he was made. Therefore, a satisfaction
356 I, 5 |          owes God for his sin what he is unable to pay, and cannot
357 I, 5 |            man by compassion; when he never remits his sin, unless
358 II, 1| discernment for this purpose, that he might hate and shun evil,
359 II, 1|            would be useless unless he loved and avoided according
360 II, 1|            holy for this end, that he might be happy in enjoying
361 II, 2|            never have died, unless he had sinned. ~Anselm.. Moreover,
362 II, 2|          death without fault, when he made him holy to enjoy eternal
363 II, 2|          that had man never sinned he never would have died.~ ~
364 II, 3|           with the same body which he has in this world. ~Anselm..
365 II, 3|            should make him such as he would have been had he never
366 II, 3|          as he would have been had he never sinned.~Boso. It must
367 II, 3|             Therefore, as man, had he not sinned, was to have
368 II, 3|            immortal state, so when he shall be restored, it must
369 II, 3|            be with his own body as he lived in this world.~Boso.
370 II, 3|        than this, that as man, had he continued in holiness, would
371 II, 3|           body and in soul; so, if he persevere in wickedness,
372 II, 3|           persevere in wickedness, he sball be likewise completely
373 II, 4|      respect to human nature, what he has begun. ~Anselm.. From
374 II, 4|          will either complete what he has begun with regard to
375 II, 4|           to human nature, or else he has made to no end so lofty
376 II, 4|          character to suppose that he will suffer that rational
377 II, 4|       perfect in human nature what he has begun. But this, as
378 II, 4|           for God to complete what he has begun, lest there be
379 II, 5|        then, can it be denied that he does it more on his own
380 II, 5|      thanks do we owe him for what he does for himself? How shall
381 II, 5|         salvation to his grace, if he saves us from necessity?~
382 II, 5|          from a necessity to which he is unwillingly subjected,
383 II, 5|           or none at all. But when he freely places himself under
384 II, 5|           without reluctance, then he certainly deserves greater
385 II, 5|   necessity but grace, inasmuch as he undertook or maintains it,
386 II, 5|           For though after his vow he ought necessarily to perform,
387 II, 5|       necessarily to perform, lest he suffer the judgment of an
388 II, 5|            apostate, and, although he may be compelled to keep
389 II, 5|          even unwillingly, yet, if he keep his vow cheerfully,
390 II, 5|           keep his vow cheerfully, he is not less but more pleasing
391 II, 5|            pleasing to God than if he had not vowed. For he has
392 II, 5|           if he had not vowed. For he has not only given up the
393 II, 5|           for the sake of God; and he cannot be said to live a
394 II, 5|            same freedom with which he took the vow. Much more,
395 II, 5|         wanting nothing in himself he begun it for our sake and
396 II, 5|            complete the good which he had begun. In fine, God
397 II, 5|        nothing by necessity, since he is not compelled or restrained
398 II, 5|           to avoid dishonor, which he certainly does not fear,
399 II, 5|            complete the work which he has begun.~Boso. I grant
400 II, 6|     Moreover, it is necessary that he who can give God anything
401 II, 7|            will not do it, because he has no debt to pay; and
402 II, 7|            will not do it, because he cannot. Therefore, in order
403 II, 7|           make this atonement. For he cannot and ought not to
404 II, 7|         ought not to do it, unless he be very God and very man.
405 II, 8|           assume human nature. For he will either take it from
406 II, 8|         take it from Adam, or else he will make a new man, as
407 II, 8|            will make a new man, as he made Adam originally. But,
408 II, 8|           Adam originally. But, if he makes a new man, not of
409 II, 8|          atonement for it, because he never belonged to it. For,
410 II, 8|          it is also necessary that he who makes the atonement
411 II, 8|            and his whole race, had he not sinned, would have stood
412 II, 8|         might be increase, in this he showed plainly that he wished
413 II, 8|        this he showed plainly that he wished to produce all that
414 II, 8|         wished to produce all that he intended with regard to
415 II, 8|            Anselm.. Therefore must he be taken either from man
416 II, 8|       neither of man nor woman, as he created Adam; or of man
417 II, 8|           of man without woman, as he made Eve; or of woman without
418 II, 8|        without man, which thus far he has never done. Wherefore,
419 II, 8|        what more fitting than that he should take that man whose
420 II, 8|     whether it be more worthy that he be born of a virgin, or
421 II, 9|        before the incarnation, and he also who, by the incarnation,
422 II, 9|           have a nobler birth than he who is born of the virgin.
423 II, 9|      grandson of the virgin, since he will be the son of her son.
424 II, 9|            Moreover, man, for whom he was to pray, and the devil,
425 II, 9|          pray, and the devil, whom he was to vanquish, have both
426 II, 9|            not I who lead you, but he of whom we are speaking,
427 II, 0|            debt; and in what sense he can or cannot sin; and how
428 II, 0|        cannot sin; and how neither he nor an angel deserves praise
429 II, 0|            would not have died had he not committed sin, much
430 II, 0|           there can be no sin, for he is God.~Boso. Let me delay
431 II, 0|            whether it be said that he can sin or that he cannot.
432 II, 0|            that he can sin or that he cannot. For if it be said
433 II, 0|             For if it be said that he cannot sin, it should seem
434 II, 0|         who, I say, will deny that he could have done many things
435 II, 0|            sin of lying? For, when he says to the Jews, of his
436 II, 0|            him not," who says that he could not have uttered these
437 II, 0|           I know him not?" Now had he done so, he would have been
438 II, 0|          not?" Now had he done so, he would have been a liar,
439 II, 0|         would have been a liar, as he himself says, and therefore
440 II, 0|           sinner. Therefore, since he could do this, he could
441 II, 0|            since he could do this, he could sin.~Anselm.. It is
442 II, 0|           Anselm.. It is true that he could say this, and also
443 II, 0|            say this, and also that he could not sin.~Boso. How
444 II, 0|            can say of Christ, that he could lie, so long as we
445 II, 0|          long as we understand, if he chose to do so. And, since
446 II, 0|         chose to do so. And, since he could not lie unwillingly
447 II, 0|           less can it be said that he could not lie. So in this
448 II, 0|           way it is both true that he could and could not lie.~
449 II, 0|            of him. I say, then, if he were unable to sin, because,
450 II, 0|         because, according to you, he could not wish to sin, he
451 II, 0|          he could not wish to sin, he maintains holiness of necessity,
452 II, 0|           necessity, and therefore he will not be holy from free
453 II, 0|            What thanks, then, will he deserve for his holiness?
454 II, 0|            by refusing to sin when he had the power? Must not
455 II, 0|            had the power? Must not he be praised for his holiness?~
456 II, 0|          for me; for if I say that he deserves no praise, I know
457 II, 0|         the other hand, I say that he does deserve praise, I am
458 II, 0|             from himself, whatever he possesses. For a person
459 II, 0|         does not take it away when he can; and to do a thing is
460 II, 0|            say with propriety that he conferred virtue upon himself
461 II, 0|         this sense, therefore, has he holiness of himself (for
462 II, 0|          for his holiness, because he is not holy of necessity
463 II, 0|             since whatever God has he has perfectly of himself,
464 II, 0|          has perfectly of himself, he is most of all to be praised
465 II, 0|          for the good things which he possesses and maintains
466 II, 0|       since every good thing which he possesses comes from himself,
467 II, 0|          that it is both true that he could not sin, and yet that
468 II, 0|        could not sin, and yet that he deserves praise for his
469 II, 0|         could make such a man, why he did not create angels and
470 II, 0|          it is therefore I ask why he did not make them so.~Anselm..
471 II, 0|            was. And if you ask why he did not bring the three
472 II, 0|          must conclude, then, that he should not be subject to
473 II, 0|      subject to death, inasmuch as he will not be a sinner.~Boso.
474 II, 1|         with regard to this, since he will be really man, and
475 II, 1|            unchangeably confirmed, he would have been as really
476 II, 1|    attribute of human nature, then he who was immortal could not
477 II, 1|          death, for us to say that he will be in all respects
478 II, 1|            which we may prove that he can die.~Anselm.. We may
479 II, 1|          We may not doubt that, as he will be God, he will possess
480 II, 1|           that, as he will be God, he will possess omnipotence.~
481 II, 1|          Boso. Certainly.~Anselm.. He can, then, if he chooses,
482 II, 1|          Anselm.. He can, then, if he chooses, lay down his life
483 II, 1|            it again.~Boso. If not, he would scarcely seem to be
484 II, 1|  omnipotent.~Anselm.. Therefore is he able to avoid death if he
485 II, 1|          he able to avoid death if he chooses, and also to die
486 II, 1|           again. Moreover, whether he lays down his life by the
487 II, 1|       another causes this, so that he lays it down by permitting
488 II, 1|       about it.~Anselm.. If, then, he chooses to allow it, he
489 II, 1|            he chooses to allow it, he could be slain; and if he
490 II, 1|          he could be slain; and if he were unwilling to allow
491 II, 1|        were unwilling to allow it, he couId not be slain.~Boso.
492 II, 1|      taught us that the gift which he presents to God, not of
493 II, 1|            Anselm.. Therefore will he give himself, or something
494 II, 1|           gift this should be? For he may not give himself to
495 II, 1|       understood in this way, that he somehow gives up himself,
496 II, 1|            the honor of God, which he did not owe as a debtor.~
497 II, 1|            Anselm.. If we say that he will give himself to God
498 II, 1|          be in some other way that he gives himself, or something
499 II, 1|           as no sin will be found, he ought not to die, as we
500 II, 1|            with difficulty? And if he was overcome by the devil