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  1 pre  |       reason of which are known to God, that, at the entreaty of
  2 pre  |            not be fulfilled unless God became man, and unless all
  3 I, 1 |            or necessity, in sooth, God became man, and by his own
  4 I, 1 |         disclose to inquirers what God has seen fit to lay open
  5 I, 2 |            the prevenient grace of God, so that, even were I unable
  6 I, 2 |           what necessity and cause God, who is omnipotent, should
  7 I, 2 |   discussion of some question that God opens what before lay concealed;
  8 I, 2 |       should hope for the grace of God, because if you liberally
  9 I, 2 |     ability with the assistance of God and your prayers, which,
 10 I, 2 |          to me for the time, until God in some way make a clearer
 11 I, 3 |          injustice and dishonor to God when we affirm that he descended
 12 I, 3 |           injustice or dishonor to God, but give him thanks with
 13 I, 3 |            the wise beneficence of God. For, as death came upon
 14 I, 4 |           we ought to believe that God wished to suffer the things
 15 I, 4 |       necessity, which proves that God ought to or could have condescended
 16 I, 4 |            Does not the reason why God ought to do the things we
 17 I, 4 |      seemly that the purpose which God had made concerning man
 18 I, 5 |    effected by any other being but God.~Boso. If this deliverance
 19 I, 5 |            by any other being than God (whether it were an angelic
 20 I, 5 |            far more patiently. For God could have made some man
 21 I, 5 |       eternity only the servant of God and an equal with the holy
 22 I, 5 |     servant of a being who was not God, and whom the angels did
 23 I, 6 |            with us for saying that God has redeemed us by his death,
 24 I, 6 |          power were you held, that God could not free you from
 25 I, 6 |            answer: If you say that God, who, as you believe, created
 26 I, 6 |         his will; for the wrath of God is nothing but his desire
 27 I, 6 |        sins, and from the wrath of God, and from hell, and from
 28 I, 6 |      nothing can oppose. If, then, God were unwilling to save the
 29 I, 6 |          As to your statement that God has shown in this way how
 30 I, 6 |          Is not the omnipotence of God everywhere enthroned? How
 31 I, 6 |   enthroned? How is it, then, that God must needs come down from
 32 I, 7 |            to have had it, and why God could have freed man in
 33 I, 7 |          wont to make use of, that God, in order to save men, was
 34 I, 7 |       worthy of death, and who was God, he should justly lose his
 35 I, 7 |           that, if it were not so, God would have used undue force
 36 I, 7 |            to any other being than God, or were in the power of
 37 I, 7 |            in the power of any but God. But since neither the devil
 38 I, 7 |          nor man belong to any but God, and neither can exist without
 39 I, 7 |            power, what cause ought God to try with his own creature (
 40 I, 7 |        could be more just than for God to do this? Or, should God,
 41 I, 7 |         God to do this? Or, should God, the judge of all, snatch
 42 I, 7 |          do this at the command of God, but God's inconceivable
 43 I, 7 |            the command of God, but God's inconceivable wisdom,
 44 I, 7 |  tormenting of the devil, and that God in justice permits this;
 45 I, 7 |        torment men justly, because God in justice permits this,
 46 I, 7 |            by the just judgment of God. But if that written decree
 47 I, 7 |        decree of the devil, but of God. For by the just judgment
 48 I, 7 |            by the just judgment of God it was decreed, and, as
 49 I, 7 |            respects the devil, why God should not make use of as
 50 I, 8 |        will. ~Anselm.. The will of God ought to be a sufficient
 51 I, 8 |           does it. For the will of God is never irrational.~Boso.
 52 I, 8 |        true, if it be granted that God does wish the thing in question;
 53 I, 8 |         many will never allow that God does wish anything if it
 54 I, 8 |             in our confessing that God desired those things which
 55 I, 8 |         doubt impassible, and that God cannot at all be brought
 56 I, 8 |          Lord Jesus Christ is very God and very man, one person
 57 I, 8 |             therefore, we speak of God as enduring any humiliation
 58 I, 8 |       human. In the incarnation of God there is no lowering of
 59 I, 8 |           or reasonable thing that God should treat or suffer to
 60 I, 8 |       wisdom and justice?~Anselm.. God the Father did not treat
 61 I, 8 |         the cross. For which cause God also has highly exalted
 62 I, 8 |       which he suffered;" and that God spared not his own Son,
 63 I, 9 |              and: "for which cause God has highly exalted him;"
 64 I, 9 |            Anselm.. I believe that God demands this of every rational
 65 I, 9 |          owes this in obedience to God.~Boso. We ought to acknowledge
 66 I, 9 |             owed this obedience to God the Father, humanity to
 67 I, 9 |            never sinned, or should God demand this of him?~Boso.
 68 I, 9 |         subject to death, and that God would not have exacted this
 69 I, 9 |          happy in the enjoyment of God.~Boso. Yes.~Anselm.. You
 70 I, 9 |            not think it proper for God to make his creature miserable
 71 I, 9 |             if man had not sinned, God ought not to compel him
 72 I, 9 |        compel him to die.~Anselm.. God did not, therefore, compel
 73 I, 9 |       cross," be added: "wherefore God also has exalted him and
 74 I, 9 |          wisdom, and in favor with God; not that this was really
 75 I, 9 |            have of himself, but of God, he ought not to call his
 76 I, 9 |           not to call his own, but God's. Now no one has the truth
 77 I, 9 |           will, of himself, but of God. Christ, therefore, came
 78 I, 9 |      divinity. For that sentence: "God spared not his own Son,
 79 I, 0 |           not improper to say that God draws or moves him when
 80 I, 0 |     follows the will received from God. In other ways, also, we
 81 I, 0 |         But this simple fact, that God allows him to be so treated,
 82 I, 0 |            relates to the honor of God, and useful for man's salvation,
 83 I, 0 |           For the question is, why God could not save man in some
 84 I, 0 |          both seems unbecoming for God to have saved man in this
 85 I, 0 |           it is a strange thing if God so delights in, or requires,
 86 I, 0 |            the least unbecoming to God; so any reason, however
 87 I, 0 |            only the incarnation of God, and those things which
 88 I, 0 |            that the incarnation of God, and the things that we
 89 I, 0 |       unbecoming or impossible for God.~Anselm.. Therefore, in
 90 I, 1 |          therefore, in what manner God puts away men's sins; and,
 91 I, 1 |           angel always rendered to God his due, he would never
 92 I, 1 |         else than not to render to God his due.~Boso. What is the
 93 I, 1 |           the debt which we owe to God?~Anselm.. Every wish of
 94 I, 1 |          be subject to the will of God.~Boso. Nothing is more true.~
 95 I, 1 |         which man and angel owe to God, and no one who pays this
 96 I, 1 |           of honor which we owe to God, and which God requires
 97 I, 1 |           we owe to God, and which God requires of us. For it is
 98 I, 1 |        that does works pleasing to God; and when this will cannot
 99 I, 1 |         this honor which is due to God, robs God of his own and
100 I, 1 |          which is due to God, robs God of his own and dishonors
101 I, 1 |       honor of which he has robbed God; and this is the satisfaction
102 I, 1 |         which every sinner owes to God.~Boso. Since we have determined
103 I, 2 |         Whether it were proper for God to put away sins by compassion
104 I, 2 |         whether it were proper for God to put away sins by compassion
105 I, 2 |              It is not fitting for God to pass over anything in
106 I, 2 |          therefore, not proper for God thus to pass over sin unpunished.~
107 I, 2 |        unpunished, viz., that with God there will be no difference
108 I, 2 |          and this is unbecoming to God.~Boso. I cannot deny it.~
109 I, 2 |            of award is bestowed by God.~Boso. This is our belief.~
110 I, 2 |            it makes injustice like God. For as God is subject to
111 I, 2 |         injustice like God. For as God is subject to no law, so
112 I, 2 |           your reasoning. But when God commands us in every case
113 I, 2 |       There is no inconsistency in God's commanding us not to take
114 I, 2 |       rightly accomplish this end, God himself does it who appointed
115 I, 2 |        have your answer. For since God is so free as to be subject
116 I, 2 |           Anselm.. What you say of God's liberty and choice and
117 I, 2 |          when it is said that what God wishes is just, and that
118 I, 2 |        must not understand that if God wished anything improper
119 I, 2 |       because he wished it. For if God wishes to lie, we must not
120 I, 2 |          but rather that he is not God. For no will can ever wish
121 I, 2 |        When, then, it is said: "If God wishes to lie," the meaning
122 I, 2 |            this: "If the nature of God is such as that he wishes
123 I, 2 |          speak the whole truth: If God desires a thing, it is right
124 I, 2 |      involves no unfitness. For if God chooses that it should rain,
125 I, 2 |           if it be not fitting for God to do anything unjustly,
126 I, 2 |  unpunished who makes no return to God of what the sinner has defrauded
127 I, 2 |          why it is not fitting for God to do this.~Boso. I listen
128 I, 3 |         that you will not say that God ought to endure a thing
129 I, 3 |     creature should not restore to God what he has taken away.~
130 I, 3 |     nothing greater or better than God, there is nothing more just
131 I, 3 |           justice, which maintains God's honor in the arrangement
132 I, 3 |          which is nothing else but God himself.~Boso. There is
133 I, 3 |           this.~Anselm.. Therefore God maintains nothing with more
134 I, 3 |          follow; otherwise, either God will not be just to himself,
135 I, 4 |      CHAPTER XIV.~How the honor of God exists in the punishment
136 I, 4 |          the sinner is an honor to God, or how it is an honor.
137 I, 4 |           of the sinner is not for God's honor when the sinner
138 I, 4 |        took away, but is punished, God loses his honor so that
139 I, 4 |      Anselm.. It is impossible for God to lose his honor; for either
140 I, 4 |          accord, or, if he refuse, God takes it from him. For either
141 I, 4 |          renders due submission to God of his own will, by avoiding
142 I, 4 |            making payment, or else God subjects him to himself
143 I, 4 |         takes away what belongs to God, so God in punishing gets
144 I, 4 |            what belongs to God, so God in punishing gets in return
145 I, 4 |     against his will. For although God does not apply what he takes
146 I, 5 |                CHAPTER XV.~Whether God suffers his honor to be
147 I, 5 |           For if, as you make out, God ought to sustain his own
148 I, 5 |            taken from the honor of God. For this honor which belongs
149 I, 5 |          is said to obey and honor God; and to this, rational nature,
150 I, 5 |           what he ought, he honors God; not by bestowing anything
151 I, 5 |        brings himself freely under God's will and disposal, and
152 I, 5 |        what he ought, he dishonors God, as far as the being himself
153 I, 5 |           submit himself freely to God's disposal. And he disturbs
154 I, 5 |           the power and majesty of God. For if those things which
155 I, 5 |         when it is understood that God brings good out of many
156 I, 5 |            the very universe which God ought to control, an unseemliness
157 I, 5 |         beauty of arrangement, and God would appear to be deficient
158 I, 5 |          one can honor or dishonor God, as he is in himself; but
159 I, 5 |            his will to the will of God.~Boso. I know of nothing
160 I, 6 |        Anselm.. It was proper that God should design to make up
161 I, 6 |            in the contemplation of God, was foreseen by him in
162 I, 6 |        less or greater. For either God did not know in what number
163 I, 7 |         treating of the reason why God did not bestow perseverance
164 I, 8 |         perfect in number, because God deferred completing the
165 I, 8 |      create man. Wherefore, either God would only complete that
166 I, 8 |         might, as it were, justify God, and put the devil to silence,
167 I, 8 |         much more would it justify God against the devil, and even
168 I, 8 |     temerity, then, do we say that God neither wishes nor is able
169 I, 8 |       every nation he that feareth God and worketh righteousness
170 I, 8 |            it may be reasoned that God planned to perfect both
171 I, 8 |    inferior nature, which knew not God, might not be perfected
172 I, 8 |        nature which ought to enjoy God; and that the inferior,
173 I, 8 |        shows by the arrangement of God. For we are wont to rejoice
174 I, 8 |         that, had not Adam sinned, God might yet put off the completion
175 I, 8 |           capable of death. But if God determined to bring to perfection,
176 I, 8 |     destruction of the wicked, but God was waiting to complete
177 I, 8 |            the same time. But that God should determine to renew
178 I, 8 |           is not fitting. But that God should wish to put off their
179 I, 8 |         exception of that man whom God being able to create from
180 I, 8 |           which is said respecting God: "He has appointed the bounds
181 I, 8 |         found sometimes "angels of God," explain in this way, that
182 I, 8 |     opinion for the present, until God makes some clearer revelation
183 I, 8 |            number of the angels of God;" or as another translation
184 I, 8 |            expressions, "angels of God," and "children of Israel,"
185 I, 8 |           kingdom. Or by angels of God may be understood holy angels
186 I, 8 |      angels only, and by angels of God, holy men. If good angels
187 I, 8 |         same as if only "angels of God" had been used; but if the
188 I, 8 |      properly be called "angels of God," because they imitate the
189 I, 8 |           holy lives are angels of God. Therefore the confessors
190 I, 8 |        truth, he is a messenger of God, that is, his angel. And
191 I, 8 |            I think we may say that God has appointed the bounds
192 I, 8 |        cease. But if by "angels of God" we only understand holy
193 I, 8 |       explained in two ways: that "God has appointed the bounds
194 I, 8 |            number of the angels of God," viz., either that so great
195 I, 8 |           there are holy angels of God, or that a people will continue
196 I, 9 |        Anselm.. It was fitting for God to fill the places of the
197 I, 9 |            and it will follow that God either could not accomplish
198 I, 9 |         never made satisfaction to God for his sin, but only been
199 I, 9 |   Therefore it is not fitting that God should take sinful man without
200 I, 9 |           with the angels, whether God ought, under such circumstances,
201 I, 9 |       polluted?~Anselm.. Would not God be acting like this, who
202 I, 9 |            man's consent? For, had God chosen to restrain the devil,
203 I, 9 |          man. Now I say, would not God be acting like this, should
204 I, 9 |           of your comparison, were God to do this, and therefore
205 I, 9 |            things is possible with God.~Anselm.. Therefore, consider
206 I, 9 |     voluntary payment of the debt, God can neither pass by the
207 I, 9 |          you to this: that we pray God, "put away our sins from
208 I, 9 |         and every nation prays the God of its faith to put away
209 I, 9 |           our debt, why do we pray God to put it away? Is not God
210 I, 9 |         God to put it away? Is not God unjust to demand what has
211 I, 9 |    connected with the payment; for God owes no man anything, but
212 I, 9 |            but every creature owes God; and, therefore, it does
213 I, 9 |           become man to treat with God as with an equal. But of
214 I, 0 | inordinatum), which cannot be, for God leaves nothing uncontrolled
215 I, 0 |       unfitness is impossible with God.~Anselm.. Tell me, then,
216 I, 0 |        then, what payment you make God for your sin?~Boso. Repentance,
217 I, 0 |       Anselm.. What do you give to God in all these?~Boso. Do I
218 I, 0 |        these?~Boso. Do I not honor God, when, for his love and
219 I, 0 |        When you render anything to God which you owe him, irrespective
220 I, 0 |           owe for sin. But you owe God every one of those things
221 I, 0 |           is the peculiar right of God, the judge of all. But what
222 I, 0 |            But what do you give to God by your obedience, which
223 I, 0 |          any portion of my debt to God.~Anselm.. How then do you
224 I, 0 |       Anselm.. How then do you pay God for your transgression?~
225 I, 0 |          Boso. If in justice I owe God myself and all my powers,
226 I, 1 |            contrary to the will of God.~Boso. Did I not hear you
227 I, 1 |           yourself in the sight of God, and one said to you: "Look
228 I, 1 |           you: "Look thither;" and God, on the other hand, should
229 I, 1 |            contrary to the will of God.~Boso. I can find no motive
230 I, 1 |         the whole universe, except God himself, should perish and
231 I, 1 |          thing against the will of God?~Boso. When I consider the
232 I, 1 |            contrary to the will of God, I know of nothing so grievous,
233 I, 1 |       cannot make up his loss; but God is in want of nothing, and,
234 I, 1 |          not to oppose the will of God even to preserve the whole
235 I, 1 |          gave the look contrary to God's will, what payment you
236 I, 1 |       knowingly oppose the will of God even in the slightest thing;
237 I, 1 |          impossible.~Anselm.. Even God cannot raise to happiness
238 I, 1 |            man to be reconciled to God.~Boso. This alone would
239 I, 2 |          contempt man brought upon God, when he allowed himself
240 I, 2 |            it were in the place of God, between God and the devil,
241 I, 2 |          the place of God, between God and the devil, to conquer
242 I, 2 |          to vindicate the honor of God and put the devil to shame,
243 I, 2 |           to the will and honor of God.~Boso. To what would you
244 I, 2 |           contrary to the honor of God for man to be reconciled
245 I, 2 |         reproach still heaped upon God; unless man first sball
246 I, 2 |           first sball have honored God by overcoming the devil,
247 I, 3 |          XXIII.~What man took from God by his sin, which he has
248 I, 3 |             What did man take from God, when he allowed himself
249 I, 3 |              Did not man take from God whatever He had purposed
250 I, 3 |          that whether man makes to God a real satisfaction for
251 I, 3 |          the devil, man restore to God what he took from God in
252 I, 3 |           to God what he took from God in allowing himself to be
253 I, 3 |        devil took what belonged to God, and God was the loser,
254 I, 3 |          what belonged to God, and God was the loser, so in man'
255 I, 3 |        devil may be despoiled, and God recover his right.~Boso.
256 I, 3 |          any means to receive from God what God designed to give
257 I, 3 |           to receive from God what God designed to give him, unless
258 I, 3 |           him, unless he return to God everything which he took
259 I, 3 |            him; so that, as by man God suffered loss, by man, also,
260 I, 3 |        were, tainted with sin, and God will not choose one of such
261 I, 3 |          things, the compassion of God and the hope of man seems
262 I, 4 |           not restore what he owes God, he cannot be happy, nor
263 I, 4 |           not restore what he owes God.~Boso. If he can pay and
264 I, 4 |            restore what he owes to God, an inability brought upon
265 I, 4 |         not paying what he owes to God.~Boso. This is very true;
266 I, 4 |             then, who does not pay God what he owes can never be
267 I, 4 |      choose to say that a merciful God remits to the suppliant
268 I, 4 |             because he cannot pay; God must be said to dispense
269 I, 4 |         the whole universe besides God; or else this, which, as
270 I, 4 |             as I have before said, God was about to take away from
271 I, 4 |            viz., happiness. But if God gives up what man ought
272 I, 4 |            is this but saying that God gives up what he is unable
273 I, 4 |         ascribe such compassion to God. But if God gives up what
274 I, 4 |          compassion to God. But if God gives up what he was about
275 I, 4 |          compassion on the part of God is wholly contrary to the
276 I, 4 |   recompense of sin. Therefore, as God cannot be inconsistent with
277 I, 4 |          suppose it were true that God pardons the man who does
278 I, 4 |        will not be happy.~Boso. If God follows the method of justice,
279 I, 4 |          the miserable wretch, and God's compassion seems to fail.~
280 I, 4 |        hear it. I do not deny that God is merciful, who preserveth
281 I, 4 |         face shall we declare that God, who is rich in mercy above
282 I, 5 |             if it is unfitting for God to elevate man with any
283 I, 5 |           lest it should seem that God had repented of his good
284 I, 5 |          that man as a sinner owes God for his sin what he is unable
285 I, 5 |          salvation of man, and how God saves man by compassion;
286 I, 5 |           foundation.~Anselm.. Now God help me, for you do not
287 I, 5 |          trusting in myself but in God, and will do what I can
288 II, 1|           How man was made holy by God, so as to be happy in the
289 II, 1|          happy in the enjoyment of God. ~Anselm.. It ought not
290 II, 1|            nature was made holy by God, in order to be happy in
291 II, 1|         made rational in vain. But God made it not rational in
292 II, 1|             For else in vain would God have given him that power
293 II, 1|          it. But it does not befit God to give such power in vain.
294 II, 1|         the supreme good, which is God. Therefore man, whose nature
295 II, 1|         might be happy in enjoying God.~ ~
296 II, 2|            it is inconsistent with God's wisdom and justice to
297 II, 4|                    CHAPTER IV.~How God will complete, in respect
298 II, 4|             we can easily see that God will either complete what
299 II, 4|           if it be understood that God has made nothing more valuable
300 II, 4|  understand it to be necessary for God to complete what he has
301 II, 5|            thing may be necessary, God may not do it by a compulsory
302 II, 5|        Boso. But if it be so, then God seems as it were compelled,
303 II, 5|          less but more pleasing to God than if he had not vowed.
304 II, 5|           liberty, for the sake of God; and he cannot be said to
305 II, 5|            do we owe all thanks to God for completing his intended
306 II, 5|          to do was not hidden from God at his creation; and yet
307 II, 5|            by freely creating man, God as it were bound himself
308 II, 5|       which he had begun. In fine, God does nothing by necessity,
309 II, 5|     anything. And when we say that God does anything to avoid dishonor,
310 II, 5|            fear, we must mean that God does this from the necessity
311 II, 5|      although the whole work which God does for man is of grace,
312 II, 5|           that it is necessary for God, on account of his unchangeable
313 II, 6|           except the price paid to God for the sin of man be something
314 II, 6|           all the universe besides God.~Boso. So it appears.~Anselm..
315 II, 6|     necessary that he who can give God anything of his own which
316 II, 6|        things in the possession of God, must be greater than all
317 II, 6|          greater than all else but God himself.~Boso. I cannot
318 II, 6|        Anselm.. Therefore none but God can make this satisfaction.~
319 II, 6|            be made, which none but God can make and none but man
320 II, 6|           it.~Boso. Now blessed be God! we have made a great discovery
321 II, 6|        have begun. For I hope that God will assist you.~Anselm..
322 II, 6|            Now must we inquire how God can become man.~ ~
323 II, 7|           same being to be perfect God and perfect man. ~Anselm..
324 II, 7|         would in that case be only God and not man, or man only
325 II, 7|           man, or man only and not God. Or, if they were so commingled
326 II, 7|         both), it would neither be God nor man. Therefore the God-man,
327 II, 7|       human, and yet that which is God not be the same with that
328 II, 7|            to be accomplished. For God will not do it, because
329 II, 7|          same being should perfect God and perfect man, in order
330 II, 7|           do it, unless he be very God and very man. Since, then,
331 II, 7|          same being should be very God and very man.~Boso. All
332 II, 8|       CHAPTER VIII.~How it behoved God to take a man of the race
333 II, 8|          to inquire whence and how God shall assume human nature.
334 II, 8|            restoration. Also, when God created human nature in
335 II, 8|            restored; and, besides, God will seem to have failed
336 II, 8|          the human nature taken by God must be produced from a
337 II, 8|        modes, no one is easier for God than another, that it should
338 II, 8|          Anselm.. In four ways can God create man, viz., either
339 II, 8|          this also. If woman, whom God made from man alone, was
340 II, 9|            further, in what person God, who exists in three persons,
341 II, 9|    respects this personal unity of God and man, and in which of
342 II, 9|          Trinity, viz., the Son of God, who is the Son before the
343 II, 9|         birth. For the one born of God will have a nobler birth
344 II, 9|         put on a false likeness to God by their own will. Wherefore
345 II, 9|            to be the very image of God. Wherefore the punishment
346 II, 9|         persons, we determine that God the Word must unite with
347 II, 0|           can be no sin, for he is God.~Boso. Let me delay you
348 II, 0|         are accustomed to say that God made man and angel capable
349 II, 0|            say you with respect to God, who cannot sin, and yet
350 II, 0|         are they in a measure like God, who has, from himself,
351 II, 0|          Wherefore, since whatever God has he has perfectly of
352 II, 0|          that man who will be also God since every good thing which
353 II, 0|         the question arises, since God could make such a man, why
354 II, 0|           them to be the same with God, as we say that man was.
355 II, 0|         but wholly forbade it, for God does nothing without reason.~
356 II, 1|          doubt that, as he will be God, he will possess omnipotence.~
357 II, 1|          gift which he presents to God, not of debt but freely,
358 II, 1|      anything in the possession of God.~Boso. Yes.~Anselm. Now
359 II, 1|            may not give himself to God, or anything of his, as
360 II, 1|          or anything of his, as if God did not have what was his
361 II, 1|          every creature belongs to God.~Boso. This is so.~Anselm..
362 II, 1|            of his, to the honor of God, which he did not owe as
363 II, 1|            he will give himself to God by obedience, so as, by
364 II, 1|       thing not demanded of him by God as his due. For every reasonable
365 II, 1|        being owes his obedience to God.~Boso. This cannot be denied.~
366 II, 1|     something belonging to him, to God.~Boso. Reason urges us to
367 II, 1|            himself up to death for God's honor. For God will not
368 II, 1|         death for God's honor. For God will not demand this of
369 II, 1|        possible, so as to dishonor God by sinning against him,
370 II, 1|          for his sin, should honor God by conquering the devil
371 II, 1|        since man has departed from God as far as possible in his
372 II, 1|         his sin, he should make to God the greatest possible satisfaction?~
373 II, 1|        difficult for man to do for God's honor, than to suffer
374 II, 1|         man cannot give himself to God in any way more truly than
375 II, 1|  surrendering himself to death for God's honor.~Boso. All these
376 II, 3|           doubt the omnipotence of God?~Boso. No! but, although
377 II, 3|            wisdom; and, therefore, God will not take anything belonging
378 II, 3|        will be made in wisdom? But God will in wisdom assume that
379 II, 3|             will be always full of God; and, therefore, will never
380 II, 3|          firmness or the wisdom of God.~Boso. Though wholly unable
381 II, 4|       contrary to the just will of God.~Anselm.. Were that man
382 II, 4|         the whole universe, except God, would perish, would you
383 II, 4|        ones in his property?~Boso. God has no need of such patience,
384 II, 5|           and reconcile sinners to God by his own death. Therefore
385 II, 5|         whom we confess to be both God and man, died for us; and,
386 II, 5|          acknowledged as true, for God cannot lie, and all he does
387 II, 6|                   CHAPTER XVI.~How God took that man from a sinful
388 II, 6|         ask. First, then, how does God, from a sinful substance,
389 II, 6|         fitting for that man to be God, and also the restorer of
390 II, 6|          what manner the wisdom of God effects this, we should
391 II, 6|       restoring of human nature by God is more wonderful than its
392 II, 6|        either was equally easy for God; but before man was made
393 II, 6|          punished, or of receiving God's compassion. For neither
394 II, 6|        were annihilated. Therefore God's restoring man is more
395 II, 6|           a thing it is, also, for God and man to unite in one
396 II, 6|         the same being may be both God and man! Who, then, will
397 II, 6|        what you wish, let us thank God for it. But if not, let
398 II, 6|            since it is agreed that God ought to become man, no
399 II, 6|            it seems unfitting that God should even for a moment
400 II, 6|    fulfilling the design for which God made man, and there is no
401 II, 6|            is also incredible that God created them, and unchangeably
402 II, 6|           we ought to believe that God made them for this purpose,
403 II, 7|           certainty of this?~Boso. God, the Son of God.~Anselm..
404 II, 7|        this?~Boso. God, the Son of God.~Anselm.. Was it not above
405 II, 7|           shown, that no desire of God is at all constrained; but
406 II, 7|          the other hand, that what God unchangeably wishes cannot
407 II, 7|           necessity. Wherefore, if God wished that man to die,
408 II, 7|        Anselm.. Because the Son of God took the nature of man with
409 II, 7|        have spoken that the Son of God and the man whose person
410 II, 7|          same being should be both God and man, the Son of God
411 II, 7|            God and man, the Son of God and the son of the virgin?~
412 II, 7|           Since, then, the will of God does nothing by any necessity,
413 II, 7|            the same as the will of God, he died not necessarily,
414 II, 8|       CHAPTER XVIII (a).~How, with God there is neither necessity
415 II, 8|           is improper to affirm of God that he does anything, or
416 II, 8|            immutable. And as, when God does a thing, since it has
417 II, 8|          that it is impossible for God to prevent a past action
418 II, 8|    whatever but the simple will of God, which chooses that truth
419 II, 8|         case. For when we say that God cannot do a thing, we do
420 II, 8|            that nothing can compel God to do the thing which is
421 II, 8|          power. Nor do we say that God does anything by necessity,
422 II, 8|         when we say with regard to God, that anything is necessary
423 II, 8|           say the very opposite of God. For, when we affirm that
424 II, 8|           that it is necessary for God to utter truth, and never
425 II, 8|          union of persons, is also God, the Son of God) could not
426 II, 8|            is also God, the Son of God) could not avoid death,
427 II, 8|           weakness in reference to God; for he does nothing except
428 II, 8|          clearness how it was that God took a man without sin from
429 II, 8|           which we have given, for God can certainly do what human
430 II, 8|     condition that, by the help of God, you will sometime give
431 II, 8|          commend it to the will of God. But say now, what remains
432 II, 8|          the inquiry was this, why God became man, for the purpose
433 II, 8|        paid the debt which he owed God for his sin. And this debt
434 II, 8|           solve the debt, none but God was able to do it; so that
435 II, 8|           who does it must be both God and man. And hence arises
436 II, 8|            arises a necessity that God should take man into unity
437 II, 8|          to do it in the person of God. In fine, you have shown
438 II, 8|        that that man, who was also God, must be formed from the
439 II, 8|           the person of the Son of God, and that he could be taken
440 II, 8|            that payment is made to God for the sins of men.~ ~
441 II, 9|           Christ's life is paid to God for the sins of men, and
442 II, 9|          his life for the honor of God?~Boso. It should seem so,
443 II, 9|      freely gave, for the honor of God, such a gift as surpasses
444 II, 9|      surpasses all things else but God himself, and is able to
445 II, 9|           from the holiness due to God on account of personal sacrifice?
446 II, 9|       except this one ever gave to God what he was not obliged
447 II, 9|            not hesitate to give to God, for himself, what he must
448 II, 9|           that so doing he pleased God more than if he had not
449 II, 9|          would be more pleasing to God. How then can we affirm
450 II, 9|         affirm that he did not owe God the thing which he did,
451 II, 9|          best and most pleasing to God, and especially since every
452 II, 9|          since every creature owes God all that he is and all that
453 II, 9|       nothing of himself, yet when God grants him the liberty of
454 II, 9|          as a free gift offered to God, he looks for a reward.
455 II, 9|         say that the creature owes God what he knows to be the
456 II, 9|         any command on the part of God, it is not always true.
457 II, 9|         the rich. We also say that God ought to be exalted over
458 II, 9|          what they ought; for what God wishes to be ought to be.
459 II, 9|           as a debt. As he is both God and man, in connection with
460 II, 9|            to die for the honor of God, as a debt; for this my
461 II, 9|     Trinity; and, since he is very God, the Son of God, he offered
462 II, 9|            is very God, the Son of God, he offered himself for
463 II, 9|           one person of the Triune God. But, though we express
464 II, 0|            gave so great a gift to God.~Boso. I see that it is
465 II, 0|        things can be attributed to God.~Anselm.. He who rewards
466 II, 0|            appears impossible; for God must necessarily render
467 II, 0|            For it seems to me that God can reject none who come
468 II, 0|          and which, by the help of God, we have somewhat examined, --
469 II, 0|       reach. It is also plain that God had no need of doing the
470 II, 0|            demanded it. For though God is said to have done what
471 II, 0|           personal union made; yet God was in no need of descending
472 II, 0|      holiness to free mankind. But God demanded that man should
473 II, 0|       should atone by holiness. As God owed nothing to the devil
474 II, 0|        demanded of man, he owed to God and not to the devil.~ ~
475 II, 1|          How great and how just is God's compassion. ~Now we have
476 II, 1|            found the compassion of God which appeared lost to you
477 II, 1|           when we were considering God's holiness and man's sin;
478 II, 3|    Testament. For, in proving that God became man by necessity,
479 II, 3|           not to ourselves, but to God, who is blessed forever. -- ~