Book, Chapter

  1 pre  |         subjoined many things about which I have been silent. For
  2 pre  |            the origin and reason of which are known to God, that,
  3 pre  |            Capra. From the theme on which it was published I have
  4 pre  |      necessary that this design for which man was made should be fulfilled;
  5 pre  |           things were to take place which we hold with regard to Christ.
  6 pre  |          the whole body of the work which shall escape his notice.~ ~
  7 I, 1 |          CHAPTER I.~The question on which the whole work rests.~I
  8 I, 1 |      certain doctrine of our faith, which I am accustomed to give
  9 I, 1 |          meditating on those things which they believe; and that,
 10 I, 1 |          them a reason of that hope which is in us. And this question,
 11 I, 1 |           And since investigations, which are carried on by question
 12 I, 2 |        CHAPTER II.~How those things which are to be said should be
 13 I, 2 |               You ask of me a thing which is above me, and therefore
 14 I, 2 |       liberally impart those things which you have freely received,
 15 I, 2 |            receive higher things to which you have not yet attained.~
 16 I, 2 |         another thing on account of which I think this subject can
 17 I, 2 |          and certain other subjects which are so related to one another
 18 I, 2 |          requires a separate labor, which, though not very easy, in
 19 I, 2 |           certain things difficult, which by acquaintance with them
 20 I, 2 |            of God and your prayers, which, when making this request,
 21 I, 2 |            shall have said anything which higher authority does not
 22 I, 2 |          bring up anything in reply which sacred authority seems to
 23 I, 3 |      passing over many other things which seem incompatible with Deity,
 24 I, 3 |          great and deserved ills in which we were, to so great and
 25 I, 3 |             and unmerited blessings which we had forfeited; by so
 26 I, 3 |           the suffering of the tree which man bore. Many other things
 27 I, 4 |         wished to suffer the things which we speak of. For when one
 28 I, 4 |        these harmonious proportions which you speak of as so many
 29 I, 4 |              I mean, the necessity, which proves that God ought to
 30 I, 4 |        condescended to those things which we affirm. Afterwards, to
 31 I, 4 |             seemly that the purpose which God had made concerning
 32 I, 5 |            restored to that dignity which would have been his had
 33 I, 6 |        unbecoming? For these things which you bring up are all regulated
 34 I, 6 |             power of the devil, all which things are the sufferings
 35 I, 6 |             by severe toil, a thing which he could have done in some
 36 I, 6 |         does and suffers the things which you enumerate? For does
 37 I, 6 |             are the objections with which infidels think they can
 38 I, 7 |             force of that argument, which we are wont to make use
 39 I, 7 |             s inconceivable wisdom, which happily controls even wickedness,
 40 I, 7 |       written decree is brought up, which the Apostle says was made
 41 I, 7 |           debt for the first sin to which he tempted man, so that
 42 I, 8 |           of Christ's condescension which we speak of do not belong
 43 I, 8 |            God desired those things which make up our belief with
 44 I, 8 |    exaltation, nor toil in anything which he wishes to effect. But
 45 I, 8 |             majesty of that nature, which cannot suffer; but to the
 46 I, 8 |           of the human constitution which he assumed. And so there
 47 I, 8 |      referred to the Divine nature, which is spoken of Christ after
 48 I, 8 |             to the same incongruity which is mentioned above. For
 49 I, 8 |             death of the cross. For which cause God also has highly
 50 I, 8 |           obedience from the things which he suffered;" and that God
 51 I, 8 |           so I do." Again: "The cup which the Father has given me,
 52 I, 9 |             unto death; " and: "for which cause God has highly exalted
 53 I, 9 |         that upon him on account of which he met death. It was in
 54 I, 9 |              so he did, and the cup which He gave to him, he drank;
 55 I, 9 |           obedience from the things which he suffered," that is, how
 56 I, 9 |             Now the word "didicit," which is used, can be understood
 57 I, 9 |           him and given him a name, which is above every name." And
 58 I, 9 |    something else first by means of which it may be done; when the
 59 I, 9 |          done; when the first thing which we wish to do is done, if
 60 I, 9 |              since that is now done which caused the delay; for it
 61 I, 9 |           it is by means of a thing which we desire should take place
 62 I, 9 |             when that has been done which he wished to do first, it
 63 I, 9 |          you have now done that for which you delayed taking food.
 64 I, 9 |         same way as that passage in which it is said that our Lord
 65 I, 9 |            Now no one has the truth which he teaches, or a holy will,
 66 I, 9 |          safety, in accordance with which human nature shrank from
 67 I, 9 |       something else, the choice of which would preclude the existence
 68 I, 9 |      preclude the existence of that which he is said to desire; for
 69 I, 9 |            close the window through which the draft is admitted which
 70 I, 9 |         which the draft is admitted which puts out the light, wishes
 71 I, 9 |            so great a thing as that which I have mentioned. And this,
 72 I, 9 |              so he did, and the cup which the Father gave to him he
 73 I, 0 |           by that same holy will by which the son wished to die for
 74 I, 0 |           obedience from the things which he suffered. For as with
 75 I, 0 |            with regard to that will which led him to a holy life,
 76 I, 0 |        Father; so also that will by which he desired to die for the
 77 I, 0 |           moved by his will to that which he invariably chooses, it
 78 I, 0 |           clinging to the holy will which has been given. If then
 79 I, 0 |         accord and to take the cup, which he freely drank. And if
 80 I, 0 |           obedience from the things which he suffered; that is, be
 81 I, 0 |         does not, desires the thing which he does not prevent. Since,
 82 I, 0 |            of him, similar to these which have been mentioned, they
 83 I, 0 |         have been driven to a thing which he does of his own power
 84 I, 0 |         useful for man's salvation, which would not otherwise be effected.~
 85 I, 0 |        effected.~Boso. The question which still troubles us is, how
 86 I, 0 |            of God, and those things which we believe with regard to
 87 I, 0 |             was made for happiness, which cannot be attained in this
 88 I, 0 |         other things, the belief of which is necessary for eternal
 89 I, 0 |           in these there is nothing which seems unbecoming or impossible
 90 I, 1 |              Boso. What is the debt which we owe to God?~Anselm..
 91 I, 1 |           Anselm.. This is the debt which man and angel owe to God,
 92 I, 1 |             or uprightness of will, which makes a being just or upright
 93 I, 1 |          and complete debt of honor which we owe to God, and which
 94 I, 1 |            which we owe to God, and which God requires of us. For
 95 I, 1 |          does not render this honor which is due to God, robs God
 96 I, 1 |             ought to give something which could not have been demanded
 97 I, 1 |            to pay back the honor of which he has robbed God; and this
 98 I, 1 |            this is the satisfaction which every sinner owes to God.~
 99 I, 2 |         There is also another thing which follows if sin be passed
100 I, 2 |             more free than justice, which seems very inconsistent.
101 I, 2 |           to enjoin a thing upon us which it is not proper for him
102 I, 2 |             obviated the difficulty which I thought to exist; but
103 I, 2 |             but there is another to which I would like to have your
104 I, 2 |            regard to those offences which we commit against others.~
105 I, 2 |         should that be called mercy which does anything improper for
106 I, 2 |          that he should desire that which involves no unfitness. For
107 I, 2 |            every possible objection which I had thought of bringing
108 I, 3 |     injustice suffered than that by which so great an evil must be
109 I, 3 |        ought to endure a thing than which no greater injustice is
110 I, 3 |          just than supreme justice, which maintains God's honor in
111 I, 3 |          arrangement of things, and which is nothing else but God
112 I, 4 |         contradiction to the things which have been said.~Anselm..
113 I, 4 |           does that belong to a man which he has in present possession,
114 I, 4 |           possession, but also that which it is in his power to have.
115 I, 4 |             man transfers the money which he has taken from another
116 I, 5 |        there is still another point which I should like to have you
117 I, 5 |        honor of God. For this honor which belongs to him is in no
118 I, 5 |           to this, rational nature, which possesses intelligence,
119 I, 5 |            God. For if those things which are held together in the
120 I, 5 |            be, in the very universe which God ought to control, an
121 I, 5 |             Boso. I know of nothing which can be said against this.~
122 I, 6 |             fell, from human nature which he created without sin.~
123 I, 6 |            that intelligent nature, which finds its happiness, both
124 I, 6 |             create rational beings, which is false; or, if he did
125 I, 6 |        absurd idea.~Boso. The truth which you set forth is plain.~
126 I, 6 |            or else rational nature, which was foreseen as perfect
127 I, 7 |   witnessing the punishment of sin; which, in respect to the others
128 I, 8 |           in that perfect number of which we have spoken, then men
129 I, 8 |             imperfect number.~Boso. Which is the better theory, that
130 I, 8 |            would only complete that which was not yet perfect, or,
131 I, 8 |             once, and those days in which Moses appears to describe
132 I, 8 |              and that human nature, which had stood firm, though weaker
133 I, 8 |             exalted above that from which the devil was fallen, as
134 I, 8 |           created at the same time, which is the opinion of the majority,
135 I, 8 |            that it was superfluous, which we should not dare affirm
136 I, 8 |     possessing another nature. From which it is plain that, even had
137 I, 8 |             I think, another reason which supports, in no small degree,
138 I, 8 |       Anselm.. Whence does that joy which one has over another's fall
139 I, 8 |      diminished, or to make up that which was not yet complete in
140 I, 8 |         incongruity will not follow which must follow if there are
141 I, 8 |           that the inferior nature, which knew not God, might not
142 I, 8 |          before the superior nature which ought to enjoy God; and
143 I, 8 |             until the number of men which he designed should be made
144 I, 8 |             renewal of the world to which we look forward; or that,
145 I, 8 |         very beginning those things which after this renewal would
146 I, 8 |             equality with angels to which men were to attain, when
147 I, 8 |         what shall we think of that which is said respecting God: "
148 I, 8 |            the children of Israel;" which some, because for the expression "
149 I, 8 |             that, if I say anything which plainly opposes the Holy
150 I, 8 |          with regard to subjects in which opposite opinions may be
151 I, 8 |              as that, for instance, which we now discuss; for if we
152 I, 8 |            given. As to the passage which you spoke of: "He has determined
153 I, 8 |           occurs, the birth of men, which takes place in this life,
154 I, 8 |            the reasons given above, which prove, I think, that there
155 I, 9 |             not accomplish the good which he begun, or he will repent
156 I, 9 |            undertaken it; either of which is absurd.~Boso. Truly it
157 I, 9 |           kind of happiness as that which he had before he sinned.~
158 I, 9 |            possessed a choice pearl which had never been defiled,
159 I, 9 |             never been defiled, and which could not be taken from
160 I, 9 |           at once to paradise, from which he had been thrust out?~
161 I, 9 |             good intent, neither of which things is possible with
162 I, 9 |             or happiness like that, which he had before he sinned;
163 I, 0 |         from control (inordinatum), which cannot be, for God leaves
164 I, 0 |          you render anything to God which you owe him, irrespective
165 I, 0 |             reckon this as the debt which you owe for sin. But you
166 I, 0 |           every one of those things which you have mentioned. For,
167 I, 0 |             true end of your being, which is the meaning of prayer,
168 I, 0 |          should find joy in nothing which does not help you or give
169 I, 0 |             deserve to have a thing which you do not love and desire
170 I, 0 |           own sake, and the want of which at present, together with
171 I, 0 |             ought to view the gifts which you bestow as a part of
172 I, 0 |           to God by your obedience, which is not owed him already,
173 I, 0 |           through Christian faith, "which works by love," that I may
174 I, 1 |             owe any of those things which you have brought up as possible
175 I, 1 |           is in all existing things which would make it right for
176 I, 1 |          Boso. I can find no motive which would make it right; unless,
177 I, 1 |          amount of that obligation, which should restrain you from
178 I, 1 |             to an additional reason which makes it no less difficult
179 I, 2 |         conquered by the devil; for which be can make no satisfaction. ~
180 I, 2 |             weakness and mortality, which he had brought upon himself,
181 I, 2 |             one thing more, without which man's reconciliation cannot
182 I, 2 |       presented so many obligations which we ought to fulfil, that
183 I, 2 |             to fulfil, that nothing which you can add will alarm me
184 I, 3 |           took from God by his sin, which he has no power to repay. ~
185 I, 3 |         have begun, the evil things which can be added to those already
186 I, 3 |            return to God everything which he took from him; so that,
187 I, 3 |       needed to complete the number which man was made to fill. But
188 I, 3 |          regards that happiness for which man was made.~Anselm.. Yet
189 I, 4 |         throw himself into a ditch, which he points out to him and
190 I, 4 |          points out to him and from which he could not extricate himself;
191 I, 4 |         brought upon himself a debt which he cannot pay, and by his
192 I, 4 |            to sin, nor pay the debt which be has incurred by sin.
193 I, 4 |          man not to have that power which he received to avoid sin,
194 I, 4 |           to have that inability by which he can neither do right
195 I, 4 |           sin, nor restore the debt which he owes on account of his
196 I, 4 |           For not to have the power which one ought to have, is the
197 I, 4 |            as to have the inability which one ought not to have. Therefore
198 I, 4 |            happiness is complete in which there is nothing wanting,
199 I, 4 |           things, viz., either this which man ought voluntarily to
200 I, 4 |     equivalent for his sin, a thing which ought not to be given up
201 I, 4 |          besides God; or else this, which, as I have before said,
202 I, 4 |     contrary to the Divine justice, which allows nothing but punishment
203 I, 4 |           of that exceeding pity by which he makes man happy after
204 I, 4 |       Anselm.. This is the question which you ought to ask of those
205 I, 5 |          what way the thing is true which he holds to be impossible.~
206 I, 5 |         stain upon him, to that for which he made him free from all
207 I, 5 |           exalted to that state for which he was made. Therefore,
208 I, 5 |           from the Christian faith, which no reason can show; or else
209 I, 5 |         fitness of all those things which the Catholic faith enjoins
210 I, 5 |          let us separate the things which remain to be said from those
211 I, 5 |        remain to be said from those which have been said, by a new
212 II, 1|      choosing the supreme good, for which it was made, it will be
213 II, 1|          enjoying the supreme good, which is God. Therefore man, whose
214 II, 3|             rise with the same body which he has in this world. ~Anselm..
215 II, 4|          complete expiation of sin, which no sinner can effect for
216 II, 5|            nature of that necessity which removes or lessens gratitude,
217 II, 5|       Anselm.. There is a necessity which takes away or lessens our
218 II, 5|        there is also a necessity by which the favor deserves still
219 II, 5|         benefit from a necessity to which he is unwillingly subjected,
220 II, 5|             but freely. For if that which to-day you promise of your
221 II, 5|          with the same freedom with which he took the vow. Much more,
222 II, 5|        himself to complete the good which he had begun. In fine, God
223 II, 5|         anything to avoid dishonor, which he certainly does not fear,
224 II, 5|           of maintaining his honor; which necessity is after all no
225 II, 5|          immutability of his honor, which belongs to him in himself,
226 II, 5|             although the whole work which God does for man is of grace,
227 II, 5|      goodness, to complete the work which he has begun.~Boso. I grant
228 II, 6|           can make the atonement by which man is saved. ~Anselm..
229 II, 6|             God anything of his own which is more valuable than all
230 II, 6|     aforesaid satisfaction be made, which none but God can make and
231 II, 7|            be produced from the two which is neither wholly Divine
232 II, 7|       species, a third is produced, which does not preserve entire
233 II, 7|        other is human, and yet that which is God not be the same with
234 II, 7|           not be the same with that which is man, it is impossible
235 II, 8|         belong to the human family, which descended from Adam, and
236 II, 8|            restored to that dignity which it would have had, had not
237 II, 8|         failed of his purpose, both which suppositions are incongruous:
238 II, 8|            or of woman without man, which thus far he has never done.
239 II, 8|            view. If it was a virgin which brought all evil upon the
240 II, 8|        without man. Of the pictures which can be superadded to this,
241 II, 9|        unity of God and man, and in which of the Divine persons this
242 II, 9|       virgin; and among the persons which ought always to be equal
243 II, 9|         there is yet another reason which renders it more fitting
244 II, 9|            person.~Boso. The way by which you lead me is so guarded
245 II, 0|         could have done many things which we call sinful? For, to
246 II, 0|            commendation and reward, which they would not have done
247 II, 0|         improperly called necessity which involves neither compulsion
248 II, 0|         praised for the good things which he possesses and maintains
249 II, 0|          God since every good thing which he possesses comes from
250 II, 1|             none, if you do not, by which we may prove that he can
251 II, 1|             taught us that the gift which he presents to God, not
252 II, 1|           his, to the honor of God, which he did not owe as a debtor.~
253 II, 1|       example himself of the way in which they ought to live? But
254 II, 2|         indeed! For as no advantage which one has apart from his choice
255 II, 3|             in this likeness to men which he ought to have, he will
256 II, 3|           anything belonging to man which is only useless, but even
257 II, 3|             a hindrance to the work which that man must accomplish.
258 II, 3|          and there be no good thing which he does not love, then there
259 II, 3|             can be no good thing of which be is ignorant. But no one
260 II, 3|           there can be no evil with which he is unacquainted. Therefore
261 II, 3|       wisdom assume that mortality, which he makes use of so widely,
262 II, 4|             to the slightest injury which could be inflicted on him.~
263 II, 4|             comparison all the sins which can be thought of, that
264 II, 4|           than those sins are evils which its destruction so far surpasses.~
265 II, 5|           so different that an evil which they could never do, were
266 II, 5|           transcendental crime with which none others can be compared.
267 II, 5|             crime, the magnitude of which we have been considering
268 II, 5|              but knowingly; a thing which no man ever did or could
269 II, 5|            the forgiveness of sins, which man can never have but by
270 II, 5|        beyond all doubt, all things which he says of himself must
271 II, 5|           things in Christian faith which seem to infidels improper
272 II, 6|          that is, of human species, which was wholly tainted by sin,
273 II, 6|           unleavened lump from that which is leavened? For, though
274 II, 6|          proper that that atonement which Christ made should benefit
275 II, 6|       certain very pleasing service which he was about to do for the
276 II, 6|            thing be accomplished by which his sins are removed. In
277 II, 6|           the number of evil angels which must be made up from men
278 II, 6|           had gained the object for which he was made. For it seems
279 II, 6|          state, and those creatures which he made for their use, to
280 II, 6|         that reconciliation without which every man was made in vain.
281 II, 6|           fulfilling the design for which God made man, and there
282 II, 6|             as the mother's purity, which he partakes, was only derived
283 II, 7|             since this disposition, which forever prevents him from
284 II, 7|            appeared from the things which we have spoken that the
285 II, 7|           least. But yet this thing which I have mentioned always
286 II, 7|          would not have existed, by which the virgin who gave him
287 II, 8|             the simple will of God, which chooses that truth should
288 II, 8|          compel God to do the thing which is said to be impossible
289 II, 8|             non-existence; and that which is compelled not to exist
290 II, 8|     impossible for a thing to exist which is under a necessity of
291 II, 8| unchangeableness of his purpose, by which he freely became man for
292 II, 8|          with the same freedom with which he made the resolution.
293 II, 8|       needful for man's restoration which the human nature could not
294 II, 8|             an antecedent necessity which is the cause of a thing,
295 II, 8|              This is that necessity which Aristotle treats of ("de
296 II, 8|      singularibus et futuris"), and which seems to destroy any alternative
297 II, 8|             necessity of all things which he did and suffered, know
298 II, 8|         other explanation than this which we have given, for God can
299 II, 8|             this other explanation, which you owe me, as it were,
300 II, 8|             owe me, as it were, but which now you avoid discussing.~
301 II, 8|         with regard to the question which you proposed in the first
302 II, 8|             in the first place, and which involves many others with
303 II, 8|           without man paid the debt which he owed God for his sin.
304 II, 9|             me to make one inquiry, which you may think foolish, but
305 II, 9|          you may think foolish, but which, nevertheless, I find no
306 II, 9|           did not owe God the thing which he did, that is, the thing
307 II, 9|             did, that is, the thing which he knew to be best and most
308 II, 9|   connection with his human nature, which made him a man, he must
309 II, 9|           that control over himself which freed him from all obligation,
310 II, 9|           humanity to his divinity, which is one person of the Triune
311 II, 0|           how precious was the gift which the Son freely gave.~Boso.
312 II, 0|          either gives him something which he does not have, or else
313 II, 0|            did he ever owe anything which could be forgiven him. How
314 II, 0|           heirs of the inheritance, which he does not need, and of
315 II, 0|        cannot describe the joy with which my heart exults. For it
316 II, 0|         aright. And the Scriptures, which rest on solid truth as on
317 II, 0|           on a firm foundation, and which, by the help of God, we
318 II, 0|          are doubtless many reasons which are beyond me and which
319 II, 0|             which are beyond me and which mortal ken does not reach.
320 II, 1|         found the compassion of God which appeared lost to you when
321 II, 1|              if given with the love which he deserves.~ ~
322 II, 2|     reconciliation of the devil, of which you made inquiry, to be
323 II, 3|    Testament is shown in the things which have been said. ~Boso. All
324 II, 3|             said. ~Boso. All things which you have said seem to me
325 II, 3|             But, if the conclusions which we have arrived at by reason