Via Augustine’s Sermons on the New Testament 1. The order established for your edification requires that you learn first what to believe, and afterwards what to ask. For so says the Apostle, Whosoever shall call upon the Name of the Lord, shall be saved. This testimony blessed Paul cited out of the Prophet; for by [...]
Via On the Spirit and the Letter Chapter 50 [XXIX.]— Righteousness is the Gift of God Let no man therefore boast of that which he seems to possess, as if he had not received it; 1 Corinthians 4:7 nor let him think that he has received it merely because the external letter of the law [...]
Via On the Spirit and the Letter Chapter 8.—Romans Interprets Corinthians. Attend, then, carefully, to the apostle while in his Epistle to the Romans he explains and clearly enough shows that what he wrote to the Corinthians, “The letter killeth, but the spirit giveth life,” 2 Cor. iii. 6. must be understood in the sense [...]
Via Augustine’s “Sermon on Matthew 8:8″ 15. Be sure, Brethren, that enemies have no power against the faithful, except so far as it profiteth them to be tempted and proved. Of this be sure, Brethren, let no one say ought against it. Cast all your care upon the Lord, throw yourselves wholly and entirely upon [...]
Via On the Spirit and the Letter Chapter 42 [XXV.]— Difference Between the Old and the New Testaments I beg of you, however, carefully to observe, as far as you can, what I am endeavouring to prove with so much effort. When the prophetpromised a new covenant, not according to the covenant which had been [...]
Wednesdays with Augustine Via “On the Spirit and the Letter” Chapter 24.— The Passage in Corinthians In the passage where he speaks to the Corinthians about the letter that kills, and the spirit that gives life, he expresses himself more clearly, but he does not mean even there any other letter to be understood than [...]
Weekends with Bach BWV 13 Meine Seufzer, meine Tränen Second Sunday after Epiphany Georg Christian Lehms, Gottgefälliges Kirchen-Opffer (Darmstadt, 1711); Facs: Neumann T, p. 258. 3. Johann Heermann, verse 2 of “Zion klagt mit Angst und Schmerzen,” 1636 (Fischer-Tümpel, I, #361); 6. Paul Fleming, final verse of “In allen meinen Taten,” 1642 (Fischer-Tümpel, I, #489). [...]
Wednesdays with Augustine Via On The Spirit and the Letter Chapter 40.— How that is to Be the Reward of All; The Apostle Earnestly Defends Grace What then is the import of the All, from the least unto the greatest of them, but all that belong spiritually to the house of Israel and to the [...]
Wednesdays with Augustine Via On the Spirit and the Letter Chapter 4.— Theirs is a Much More Serious Error, Requiring a Very Vigorous Refutation, Who Deny God’s Grace to Be Necessary They, however, must be resisted with the utmost ardor and vigor who suppose that without God’s help, the mere power of the human will [...]
Wednesdays with Augustine Via The Anti-Pelagian Writings & Pelagius’ Suspicious Confession Chapter 2 [II.]—Suspicious Character of Pelagius’ Confession as to the Necessity of Grace for Every Single Act of Ours. You informed me in your letter, that you had entreated Pelagius to express in writing his condemnation of all that had been alleged against him; [...]
Via the Anti-Pelagian Writings and A Treatise on Rebuke and Grace Chapter 5 [III.]—Rebuke Must Not Be Neglected “Then,” say they, “let those who are over us only prescribe to us what we ought to do, and pray for us that we may do it; but let them not rebuke and censure us if we [...]
Wednesdays with Augustine Via “A Treatise on Rebuke & Grace” I Have read your letter—Valentine, my dearly beloved brother, and you who are associated with him in the service of God—which your Love sent by brother Florus and those who came to us with him; and I gave God thanks that I have known your [...]
Wednesdays with Augustine Via Augustine, “The Reality of the Resurrection” Now, with respect to the resurrection of the body — and by this I do not mean the cases of resuscitation after which people died again, but a resurrection to eternal life after the fashion of Christ’s own body — I have not found a [...]
Wednesday with Augustine Via Augustine’s “Against the Donatists” Chapter 10.—13. But they think within themselves that they show very great subtlety in asking whether the baptism of Christ in the party of Donatus makes men sons or not; so that, if we allow that it does make them sons, they may assert that theirs is [...]
Wednesdays with Augustine Via Augustine’s Anti-Pelagian Writings Chapter 2.—Why Heretical Writings Must Be Answered. For the new heretics, enemies of the grace of God which is given by Jesus Christ our Lord to small and great, although they are already shown more openly to need to be avoided by a manifest disapprobation, still do not [...]
Wednesdays with Augustine Via Augustine, The Writings Against the Manichaeans and the Donatists Chapter 15.—23. For it is the Church that gives birth to all, either within her pale, of her own womb; or beyond it, of the seed of her bridegroom. But Esau, even though born of the lawful wife, was separated from the [...]
Wednesday’s with Augustine Via Augustine’s City of God Argument—In this book it is shown that eternal life is not obtained by the worship of Janus, Jupiter, Saturn, and the other “select gods” of the civil theology. Preface. It will be the duty of those who are endowed with quicker and better understandings, in whose case [...]
Wednesdays with Augustine Via The City of God Chapter 1 Chapter 1.— Of the Adversaries of the Name of Christ, Whom the Barbarians for Christ’s Sake Spared When They Stormed the City. For to this earthly city belong the enemies against whom I have to defend the city of God. Many of them, indeed, being [...]
Wednesdays with Augustine Via Augustine’s ‘Two Letters to Valentinus,” chapters 6, 11, 12 Chapter 6 [IV.] – God’s Grace to Be Maintained Against the Pelagians; The Pelagian Heresy Not an Old One. It is, however, to be feared lest all these and similar testimonies of Holy Scripture (and undoubtedly there are a great many of [...]
Wednesdays with Augustine Via Augustine’s Enchiridion, Chapters 3, 4, and 5 CHAP. 3.–GOD IS TO BE WORSHIPPED THROUGH FAITH, HOPE, AND LOVE. Now if I should answer, that God is to be worshipped with faith, hope, and love, you will at once say that this answer is too brief, and will ask me briefly to [...]
Wednesdays with Augustine Via Augustine’s Enchiridion, Chapters 1 & 2. The Enchiridion is among the latest books of Augustine. It was written after the death of Jerome, which occurred Sept. 30, 420; for he alludes in ch. 87 to Jerome “of blessed memory” (sanctoe memorioe Hieronymus presbyter). It is addressed to Laurentius, in answer to [...]
Wednesdays with Augustine Anti-Pelagian Writings, Chapter 24 [XIX.]—Infants Saved as Sinners. And let no one suppose that infants ought to be brought to baptism, on the ground that, as they are not sinners, so they are not righteous; how then do some remind us that the Lord commends this tender age as meritorious; saying, “Suffer [...]
Wednesdays with Augustine Via Retractions Volume 1 Chapter 42.—From the First Epistle of John. Moreover, from John’s Epistle I meet with the following words, which seem indispensable to the solution of this question: “But if,” says he, “we walk in the light, as He is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and [...]
Wednesdays with Augustine To His Well-Beloved Brethren the Clergy, and to the Whole People [of Hippo], Augustine Sends Greeting in the Lord. 1. In the first place, I beseech you, my friends, and implore you, for Christ’s sake, not to let my bodily absence grieve you. For I suppose you do not imagine that I [...]
Wednesdays with Augustine Via Augustine’s Anti-Pelagian Writings vol. 1, “A Treatise on the Merits and Forgiveness of Sins,…” Chapter 33.—Christ is the Saviour and Redeemer Even of Infants. Let us therefore give in and yield our assent to the authority of Holy Scripture, which knows not how either to be deceived or to deceive; and [...]
Wednesdays with Augustine Via Against Two Letters of the Pelagians, Book IV Chapter 10.— Of the Praise of the Law Once more, in the praise of the law, what advantage is it to them that, in opposition to the Manicheans, they say the truth when they wish to bring men from that view to this [...]
Wednesdays with Augustine Via the Anti-Pelagian Writings Chapter 12: The Law Could Not Take Away Sin Observe also what follows. Having said, “In which all have sinned,” he at once added, “For until the law, sin was in the world.” Rom. v. 13. This means that sin could not be taken away even by the [...]
Wednesdays with Augustine A Treatise on the Grace of Christ, and on Original Sin Wherein he shows that Pelagius is disingenuous in his confession of grace, inasmuch as he places grace either in nature and free will, or in law and teaching; and, moreover, asserts that it is merely the “possibility” (as he calls it) [...]
Wednesdays with Augustine Via The Harmony of the Gospels Chapter I.—On the Authority of the Gospels. 1. In the entire number of those divine records which are contained in the sacred writings, the gospel deservedly stands pre-eminent. For what the law and the prophets aforetime announced as destined to come to pass, is exhibited in [...]
Wednesdays with Augustine Of the Letter and the Spirit Chapter 15 [IX.] – The Righteousness of God Manifested by the Law and the Prophets. Here, perhaps, it may be said by that presumption of man, which is ignorant of the righteousness of God, and wishes to establish one of its own, that the apostle quite [...]
Wednesdays with Augustine Book II. Chap. 23 ON THE FOLLOWING TREATISE, “DE PECCATORUM MERITIS ET REMISSIONE.” ———————————— A Necessity arose which compelled me to write against the new heresy of Pelagius. Our previous opposition to it was confined to sermons and conversations, as occasions suggested, and according to our respective abilities and duties; but it [...]
Wednesdays with Augustine 1. “Why do the heathen rage, and the people meditate vain things?”(ver. 1). “The kings of the earth have stood up, and the rulers takencounsel together, against the Lord, and against His Christ” (ver. 2).It is said, “why?” as if it were said, in vain. For what they wished,namely, Christ’s destruction, they [...]
Wednesdays with Augustine From On Christian Doctrine, Book I, Chapter 7: 7. For when the one supreme God of gods is thought of, even by those who believe that there are other gods, and who call them by that name, and worship them as gods, their thought takes the form of an endeavour to reach [...]
