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 [...]
