Book, Chapter

  1 I, 2 |              constancy; I desire that you I should discover to me,
  2 I, 2 |              discover to me, what, as you know, many besides myself
  3 I, 2 |              of its renewal?~Anselm.. You ask of me a thing which
  4 I, 2 |               able to grasp it.~Boso. You ought not so much to fear
  5 I, 2 |            much to fear this, because you should call to mind, on
  6 I, 2 |               lay concealed; and that you should hope for the grace
  7 I, 2 |              grace of God, because if you liberally impart those things
  8 I, 2 |             impart those things which you have freely received, you
  9 I, 2 |             you have freely received, you will be worthy to receive
 10 I, 2 |        receive higher things to which you have not yet attained.~Anselm..
 11 I, 2 |               them become easy.~Boso. You can speak so briefly with
 12 I, 2 |               this ought not to deter you, because, as you allow any
 13 I, 2 |             to deter you, because, as you allow any one to talk better
 14 I, 2 |             talk better if he can, so you preclude none from writing
 15 I, 2 |               please him. But, to cut you off from all excuses, you
 16 I, 2 |             you off from all excuses, you are not to fulfil this request
 17 I, 2 |            who desire this thing with you, out of love and pious zeal,
 18 I, 2 |             when making this request, you have often promised me,
 19 I, 2 |               much to make plain what you inquire about, as to inquire
 20 I, 2 |             about, as to inquire with you. But I wish all that I say
 21 I, 2 |              one and the same. And if you bring up anything in reply
 22 I, 2 |              this inconsistency until you disprove it.~Anselm.. Speak
 23 I, 4 |          harmonious proportions which you speak of as so many pictures
 24 I, 5 |           have been done.~Anselm.. Do you not perceive that, if any
 25 I, 6 |             or under whose power were you held, that God could not
 26 I, 6 |               that God could not free you from it, without purchasing
 27 I, 6 |           towards us; they answer: If you say that God, who, as you
 28 I, 6 |             you say that God, who, as you believe, created the universe
 29 I, 6 |           things by a simple command, you contradict yourselves, for
 30 I, 6 |            contradict yourselves, for you make him powerless. Or,
 31 I, 6 |            make him powerless. Or, if you grant that he could have
 32 I, 6 |              did not wish to, how can you vindicate his wisdom, when
 33 I, 6 |            vindicate his wisdom, when you assert that he desired,
 34 I, 6 |                For these things which you bring up are all regulated
 35 I, 6 |           Whatever things, therefore, you dread or hope for, all lie
 36 I, 6 |               any other way than that you mention, when he could have
 37 I, 6 |        observe, to say the least, how you disparage his wisdom. For,
 38 I, 6 |            this way how much he loved you, there is no argument to
 39 I, 6 |              suffers the things which you enumerate? For does he not
 40 I, 6 |            these for them? As to what you say of his coming to vanquish
 41 I, 6 |             to vanquish the devil for you, with what meaning dare
 42 I, 6 |                with what meaning dare you allege this? Is not the
 43 I, 8 |              reason.~Anselm.. What do you find inconsistent with reason,
 44 I, 8 |             did not treat that man as you seem to suppose, nor put
 45 I, 8 |   nevertheless, not as I will, but as you will ." And again: "Father,
 46 I, 9 |                 not as I will, but as you will ." V~Anselm.. It seems
 47 I, 9 |          Anselm.. It seems to me that you do not rightly understand
 48 I, 9 |         perfect.~Boso. I need to have you explain it more clearly.~
 49 I, 9 |           doubt of this.~Anselin. Now you see what he did, under the
 50 I, 9 |              reason of the thing from you.~Anselm.. You acknowledge
 51 I, 9 |              thing from you.~Anselm.. You acknowledge that the intelligent
 52 I, 9 |              God.~Boso. Yes.~Anselm.. You surely will not think it
 53 I, 9 |               him: now take food, for you have now done that for which
 54 I, 9 |               now done that for which you delayed taking food. Far
 55 I, 9 |    nevertheless not as I will, but as you will ;" and "If this cup
 56 I, 9 |             say to the Father: "Since you do not desire the reconciliation
 57 I, 9 |              this respect, I see that you desirest my death; let your
 58 I, 9 |            world may be reconciled to you." For we often say that
 59 I, 0 |               Since, in this inquiry, you take the place of those
 60 I, 1 |      objection against them, although you somewhat startle me.~ ~
 61 I, 2 |              undischarged.~Boso. What you say is reasonable.~Anselm..
 62 I, 2 |           them for the purpose.~Boso. You have obviated the difficulty
 63 I, 2 |         against others.~Anselm.. What you say of God's liberty and
 64 I, 2 |              has defrauded him.~Boso. You remove from me every possible
 65 I, 2 |           thought of bringing against you.~Anselm.. Yet observe why
 66 I, 2 |            listen readily to whatever you say.~ ~
 67 I, 3 |              I think, therefore, that you will not say that God ought
 68 I, 3 |               Boso. I must agree with you.~Anselm.. Does it seem to
 69 I, 3 |              Anselm.. Does it seem to you that he wholly preserves
 70 I, 4 |               But I wish to hear from you whether the punishment of
 71 I, 5 |             least degree. ~Boso. What you say satisfies me. But there
 72 I, 5 |           which I should like to have you answer. For if, as you make
 73 I, 5 |           have you answer. For if, as you make out, God ought to sustain
 74 I, 5 |            will that punishes. And if you ask whither he goes, it
 75 I, 5 |               follow every sin.~Boso. You have relieved my objection.~
 76 I, 6 |               reason for it.~Anselm.. You mistake me, for we intended
 77 I, 6 |    incarnation of the Deity, and here you are bringing in other questions.~
 78 I, 6 |           idea.~Boso. The truth which you set forth is plain.~Anselm..
 79 I, 7 |               for them?~Anselm.. When you shall see the difficulty
 80 I, 7 |        difficulty of our restoration, you will understand the impossibility
 81 I, 7 |    perseverance upon the devil.~Boso. You have proved that the evil
 82 I, 7 |           fallen angels. But show, if you can, whether it will be
 83 I, 8 |            Boso. I cannot ask more of you.~Anselm.. If man was created
 84 I, 8 |             the perfect number.~Boso. You have not labored in vain.~
 85 I, 8 |              I see no way of opposing you.~Anselm.. Whence does that
 86 I, 8 |               appears.~Anselm.. Think you that any one of them can
 87 I, 8 |           support this opinion.~Boso. You ought then to present it.~
 88 I, 8 |            from among men.~Boso. What you say seems very reasonable
 89 I, 8 |               As to the passage which you spoke of: "He has determined
 90 I, 8 |             means regret that I urged you to these remarks about the
 91 I, 9 |                Boso. No.~Anselm.. Can you think that man, who has
 92 I, 9 |      beautiful and loved casket; will you consider him a wise man?~
 93 I, 9 |               reasoning. But what say you to this: that we pray God, "
 94 I, 9 |              needful for me to answer you. For when you think why
 95 I, 9 |               to answer you. For when you think why Christ died, I
 96 I, 9 |              why Christ died, I think you will see yourself the answer
 97 I, 9 |               present. And, moreover, you have so clearly shown that
 98 I, 0 |                Neither, I think, will you doubt this, that satisfaction
 99 I, 0 |           Tell me, then, what payment you make God for your sin?~Boso.
100 I, 0 |           obedience.~Anselm.. What do you give to God in all these?~
101 I, 0 |       releasing others?~Anselm.. When you render anything to God which
102 I, 0 |          render anything to God which you owe him, irrespective of
103 I, 0 |        irrespective of your past sin, you should not reckon this as
104 I, 0 |         reckon this as the debt which you owe for sin. But you owe
105 I, 0 |            which you owe for sin. But you owe God every one of those
106 I, 0 |             one of those things which you have mentioned. For, in
107 I, 0 |           prayer, and such grief that you have not yet reached this
108 I, 0 |            object, and such fear lest you fail of it, that you should
109 I, 0 |             lest you fail of it, that you should find joy in nothing
110 I, 0 |           nothing which does not help you or give encouragement of
111 I, 0 |    encouragement of your success. For you do not deserve to have a
112 I, 0 |         deserve to have a thing which you do not love and desire for
113 I, 0 |              never getting it, causes you no grief. This also requires
114 I, 0 |            pleasure, except so far as you think suffices for the accomplishment
115 I, 0 |    accomplishment of that object. But you ought to view the gifts
116 I, 0 |               to view the gifts which you bestow as a part of your
117 I, 0 |              part of your debt, since you know that what you give
118 I, 0 |              since you know that what you give comes not from yourself,
119 I, 0 |           from him whose servant both you are and he also to whom
120 I, 0 |               are and he also to whom you give. And nature herself
121 I, 0 |            And nature herself teaches you to do to your fellow servant,
122 I, 0 |               servant, man to man, as you would be done by; and that
123 I, 0 |      vengeance in no sense belongs to you, since you are not your
124 I, 0 |           sense belongs to you, since you are not your own, nor is
125 I, 0 |            own, nor is he who injures you yours or his, but you are
126 I, 0 |         injures you yours or his, but you are both the servants of
127 I, 0 |            him out of nothing. And if you avenge yourself upon your
128 I, 0 |             upon your fellow servant, you proudly assume judgment
129 I, 0 |             judge of all. But what do you give to God by your obedience,
130 I, 0 |        already, since he demands from you all that you are and have
131 I, 0 |             demands from you all that you are and have and can become?~
132 I, 0 |             God.~Anselm.. How then do you pay God for your transgression?~
133 I, 0 |          Anselm.. What will become of you then? How will you be saved?~
134 I, 0 |          become of you then? How will you be saved?~Boso. Merely looking
135 I, 0 |           reason simply.~Boso. Though you bring me into straits, yet
136 I, 0 |         straits, yet I very much wish you to proceed as you have begun.~ ~
137 I, 0 |           much wish you to proceed as you have begun.~ ~
138 I, 1 |                 Anselm.. Suppose that you did not owe any of those
139 I, 1 |             any of those things which you have brought up as possible
140 I, 1 |             God.~Boso. Did I not hear you question the thing, I should
141 I, 1 |           blot out this sin.~Anselm.. You have not as yet estimated
142 I, 1 |               it me then.~Anselm.. If you should find yourself in
143 I, 1 |               of God, and one said to you: "Look thither;" and God,
144 I, 1 |                It is not my will that you should look;" ask your own
145 I, 1 |               would make it right for you to give that look contrary
146 I, 1 |              to this sin only whether you can do it even for your
147 I, 1 |                Anselm.. Not to detain you too long; what if it were
148 I, 1 |            into nothing, or else that you should do so small a thing
149 I, 1 |           would be the same.~Anselm.. You cannot answer more correctly,
150 I, 1 |           also, should it happen that you gave the look contrary to
151 I, 1 |              God's will, what payment you can make for this sin?~Boso.
152 I, 1 |           deny it.~Anselm.. Therefore you make no satisfaction unless
153 I, 1 |           make no satisfaction unless you restore something greater
154 I, 1 |     obligation, which should restrain you from committing the sin.~
155 I, 2 |              God.~Boso. To what would you bring me?~Anselm.. Decide
156 I, 2 |              and reason approves what you say.~Anselm.. Let me mention
157 I, 2 |      impossibility is the same.~Boso. You have already presented so
158 I, 2 |            fulfil, that nothing which you can add will alarm me more.~
159 I, 3 |            Boso. Go on to mention, as you have begun, the evil things
160 I, 3 |             conceived.~Anselm.. Think you that supreme justice can
161 I, 3 |             wait a little.~Boso. Have you anything further?~ ~
162 I, 4 |              the work assigned; think you that his inability will
163 I, 4 |           this is so.~Anselm.. But if you choose to say that a merciful
164 I, 4 |               seems to fail.~Anselm.. You have demanded an explanation;
165 I, 4 |             the extent of sin. And if you think that any objections
166 I, 4 |         brought against these proofs, you ought to mention them.~Boso.
167 I, 4 |            This is the question which you ought to ask of those in
168 I, 4 |              of those in whose behalf you are speaking, who have no
169 I, 4 |              for man's salvation, and you should also request them
170 I, 4 |               saved.~Boso. Let me ask you, as I have begun, to show
171 I, 5 |             Boso. But what reply will you make to a person who perceives
172 I, 5 |               impossible.~Anselm.. Do you not perceive, from what
173 I, 5 |            not understood.~Boso. What you say is true.~Anselm.. Why,
174 I, 5 |                Anselm.. Why, then, do you question further?~Boso.
175 I, 5 |             for this purpose, to have you remove doubts from my faith,
176 I, 5 |            from my faith, but to have you show me the reason for my
177 I, 5 |             confidence. Therefore, as you have brought me thus far
178 I, 5 |          saved without paying; I wish you would go further with me,
179 I, 5 |         Anselm.. Now God help me, for you do not spare me in the least,
180 I, 5 |            weakness of my skill, when you enjoin so great a work upon
181 II, 3|              miserable forever.~Boso. You have promptly satisfied
182 II, 5|              For if that which to-day you promise of your own accord
183 II, 5|            promise of your own accord you will give to-morrow, you
184 II, 5|              you will give to-morrow, you do give to-morrow with the
185 II, 5|            though it be necessary for you, if possible, to redeem
186 II, 5|              your precious gift as if you had not promised it, for
187 II, 5|              had not promised it, for you were not obliged to make
188 II, 6|        question. Go on, therefore, as you have begun. For I hope that
189 II, 6|             hope that God will assist you.~Anselm.. Now must we inquire
190 II, 7|              very man.~Boso. All that you say is satisfactory to me.~ ~
191 II, 8|               men.~Boso. I agree with you.~Anselm.. Therefore must
192 II, 8|          unsubstantial as a cloud, as you have said infidels declare?~
193 II, 9|                Boso. The way by which you lead me is so guarded by
194 II, 9|         Anselm.. It is not I who lead you, but he of whom we are speaking,
195 II, 0|               God.~Boso. Let me delay you a little on this point.
196 II, 0|            shall be a liar, like unto you," and, in this sentence,
197 II, 0|            sin, because, according to you, he could not wish to sin,
198 II, 0|              do so.~Anselm.. What say you with respect to God, who
199 II, 0|           Boso. I should like to have you answer that question for
200 II, 0|           united in one person.~Boso. You have satisfied me on this
201 II, 0|           their holiness?~Anselm.. Do you know what you are saying? ~
202 II, 0|             Anselm.. Do you know what you are saying? ~Boso. I think
203 II, 0|              say that man was. And if you ask why he did not bring
204 II, 0|             question. Go on with what you have to say.~Anselm.. We
205 II, 0|               Boso. I must agree with you.~ ~
206 II, 1|              since I know of none, if you do not, by which we may
207 II, 1|      according to reason.~Boso. Speak you, and I will listen with
208 II, 3|              infirmities?~Anselm.. Do you doubt the omnipotence of
209 II, 3|             this should seem to he as you say; but, in infancy, as
210 II, 4|            our sins. ~Boso. Now I ask you to tell me how his death
211 II, 4|             least sin we can think of you have shown to be so monstrous
212 II, 4|             Were that man here before you, and you knew who he was,
213 II, 4|              man here before you, and you knew who he was, and it
214 II, 4|              he was, and it were told you that, if you did not kill
215 II, 4|             it were told you that, if you did not kill him, the whole
216 II, 4|              God, would perish, would you do it to preserve the rest
217 II, 4|              me.~Anselm.. But suppose you were told: "If you do not
218 II, 4|            suppose you were told: "If you do not kill him, all the
219 II, 4|             world will be heaped upon you."~Boso. I should answer,
220 II, 4|            inflicted on him.~Anselm.. You judge correctly; but tell
221 II, 4|             person.~Anselm.. What say you to this, that one often
222 II, 4|           subjection to his power, as you answered a certain question
223 II, 4|               of mine above.~Anselm.. You say well; and hence we see
224 II, 4|          great does this good seem to you, if the destruction of it
225 II, 4|          seeing this.~Anselm.. And do you not think that so great
226 II, 4|           infinite value.~Anselm.. Do you see, then, how this life
227 II, 5|             the Deity. But let me ask you one thing more. If it be
228 II, 5|           ever did or could do.~Boso. You have reasonably shown that
229 II, 5|            sin.~Anselm.. What more do you ask? For now you, see how
230 II, 5|              more do you ask? For now you, see how reason of necessity
231 II, 5|              reason of it.~Boso. What you say is true; and I do not
232 II, 5|              I ask this in order that you may disclose to me, in their
233 II, 6|            Eve. ~Boso. As, therefore, you have disclosed the reason
234 II, 6|         things mentioned above, I beg you will also explain what I
235 II, 6|             life, and I do not desire you to do what no man can do,
236 II, 6|        according to your ability. For you will sooner convince me
237 II, 6|              by showing some one that you know of, than if, by saying
238 II, 6|           than if, by saying nothing, you make it appear that you
239 II, 6|               you make it appear that you do not understand any reason.~
240 II, 6|             any power to explain what you wish, let us thank God for
241 II, 6|               to exist in vain.~Boso. You show by correct reasoning,
242 II, 6|           they were created.~Anselm.. You understand it well. But
243 II, 6|             in her purity.~Boso. What you say would satisfy me, were
244 II, 7|             an absurdity.~Anselm.. If you had carefully noted the
245 II, 7|               the remarks made above, you would easily have discovered
246 II, 7|               birth from a virgin, as you said above.~Anselm.. As
247 II, 7|               said above.~Anselm.. As you think that he could not
248 II, 7|           avoid being what he was, so you can assert that he could
249 II, 7|            wish to die. Wherefore, as you ought not to say that he
250 II, 7|               he should suffer death, you prove it necessary that
251 II, 7|         desire.~Anselm.. If, then, as you say, he could not avoid
252 II, 7|              for him to die.~Anselm.. You make a great ado about nothing,
253 II, 7|        nothing, or, as the saying is, you stumble at a straw.~Boso.
254 II, 7|         stumble at a straw.~Boso. Are you not forgetting my reply
255 II, 7|               my reply to the excuses you made at the beginning of
256 II, 7|            our discussion, viz., that you should explain the subject,
257 II, 7|          Suffer me, then, to question you as my slowness and dullness
258 II, 7|         dullness require, so that, as you have begun thus far, you
259 II, 7|              you have begun thus far, you may go on to settle all
260 II, 8|        believed. And, if it perplexes you to have me say that it is
261 II, 8|          revolve. But when I say that you speak of necessity, because
262 II, 8|           speak of necessity, because you are speaking, this is nothing
263 II, 8|             that it is impossible for you to speak and not to speak
264 II, 8|             not that some one compels you to speak. For the force
265 II, 8|              but no necessity obliges you to speak. But wherever there
266 II, 8|           likewise true that, because you speak, you do it of necessity.
267 II, 8|              that, because you speak, you do it of necessity. This
268 II, 8|            because they were; and, if you wish to know the real necessity
269 II, 8|             as he himself said.~Boso. You have satisfied me that it
270 II, 8|              my importunity in urging you to make this explanation.~
271 II, 8|               intended work.~Boso. As you choose; but with this condition
272 II, 8|             that, by the help of God, you will sometime give this
273 II, 8|              other explanation, which you owe me, as it were, but
274 II, 8|             as it were, but which now you avoid discussing.~Anselm..
275 II, 8|             myself, I will not refuse you; but because of the uncertainty
276 II, 8|            events, I dare not promise you, but commend it to the will
277 II, 8|          regard to the question which you proposed in the first place,
278 II, 8|             it in some other way. And you, by numerous and positive
279 II, 8|               person of God. In fine, you have shown that that man,
280 II, 8|           sinful substance. Moreover, you have clearly shown the life
281 II, 9|              sins of men.~Anselm.. Do you not perceive that when he
282 II, 9|               such willingness.~Boso. You very nearly meet my wishes;
283 II, 9|               make one inquiry, which you may think foolish, but which,
284 II, 9|              no easy thing to answer. You say that when he died he
285 II, 9|              looks for a reward. When you say that the creature owes
286 II, 9|             what he is able to do, if you mean that he owes it as
287 II, 9|              if be prefers it. And if you are unable to understand
288 II, 9|             is implied, let me inform you that we use the word "debere"
289 II, 0|         although I think I understand you, yet I wish to get from
290 II, 0|                yet I wish to get from you the close chain of argument.~
291 II, 0|          enough already.~Anselm.. But you surely will not think that
292 II, 1|            God which appeared lost to you when we were considering
293 II, 2|           devil to be reconciled. ~IF you carefully consider the scheme
294 II, 2|            scheme of human salvation, you will perceive the reconciliation
295 II, 2| reconciliation of the devil, of which you made inquiry, to be impossible.
296 II, 3|                Boso. All things which you have said seem to me reasonable
297 II, 3|             the Trinity, and on Adam, you convince both Jews and Pagans