Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers First Series, Volume IV
Overview
These volumes contains Augustine's writings against the Manichaeans and against the Donatists.
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Product Details
- Title: Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers First Series, Volume IV
- Editors: Philip Schaff
- Publisher: Christian Literature Company
- Publication Date: 1887
Top Highlights
“the most cruel and loathsome places of confinement of your” (Page 330)
“Sin, then, is any transgression in deed, or word, or desire, of the eternal law. And the eternal law is the divine order or will of God, which requires the preservation of natural order, and forbids the breach of it.” (Page 283)
“By all these considerations it is proved that the sacrament of baptism is one thing, the conversion of the heart another; but that man’s salvation is made complete through the two together.” (Page 462)
“‘Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.’2 Now you love yourself suitably when you love God better than yourself. What, then, you aim at in yourself you must aim at in your neighbor, namely, that he may love God with a perfect affection. For you do not love him as yourself, unless you try to draw him to that good which you are yourself pursuing. For this is the one good which has room for all to pursue it along with thee. From this precept proceed the duties of human society, in which it is hard to keep from error. But the first thing to aim at is, that we should be benevolent, that is, that we cherish no malice and no evil design against another. For man is the nearest neighbor of man.” (Page 55)
“And hence it is clear that they are guilty of impiety who endeavor to rebaptize those who are in Catholic unity; and we act rightly who do not dare to repudiate God’s sacraments, even when administered in schism. For in all points in which they think with us, they also are in communion with us, and only are severed from us in those points in which they dissent from us.” (Page 412)
