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Two Dissertations · §56

Cap. 5 Mem. 2 Fathers: Bede — each is reconciled when he believes the slain

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Last I will bring forward the most express testimony of the Venerable Bede, found in his Commentaries on 2 Corinthians 5: Through faith the world is reconciled to God, when it believes in Christ who was sent by God.

The Apostle had said that God in Christ reconciled the world to himself — that is, that Christ by God’s ordination paid that ransom to the Father, whereby it was effected that God does not exact from us satisfaction for our sins before he returns into grace with us, but, content with this alone, is ready to receive anyone into grace.

If you still ask whether, this price having been paid, by the very fact of the payment all human beings are at once reconciled, Bede answers: By no means that; but each one is then reconciled to God when he himself believes in Christ who was sent by God.

Those words of the same author on Luke 15 have the same mind: Then for each of us Christ is slain, when he believes him slain. He was slain from the origin of the world in the Divine acceptation; slain also, when the fullness of time came, on the cross itself; yet for you and for me — that is, for each singular human being — then slain when he believes in the slain. Which is just as if he had said: the benefit of the slain or dead Christ then pertains to us when we begin to believe in him.

Latin

Ultimo proferam testimonium venerabilis Bedae expressissimum, quod habetur in Commentariis ejus supra 2 Cor. v. Per fidem mundus reconciliatur Deo, cum credit in Christum, qui missus est a Deo. Dixerat Apostolus Deum in Christo mundum reconciliasse sibi, id est, Christum ex Dei ordinatione illud λυτρον Patri dependisse, quo effectum est ut Deus non a nobis exposcat satisfactionem pro peccatis nostris, antequam nobiscum redeat in gratiam, sed hoc solo contentus, paratus sit quemlibet in gratiam recipere. Si adhuc quaeras, numquid soluto hoc pretio ipso facto solutionis universi homines statim reconciliantur, respondet Beda, Minime illud quidem; sed unusquisque tum reconciliatur Deo, cum ipse credit in Christum, qui missus est a Deo. Eandem habent mentem & illa verba ejusdem autoris in Luc. xv. Tum unicuique nostrum occiditur Christus, cum credit occisum. Occisus fuit ab origine mundi in acceptatione Divina; occisus etiam, adveniente plenitudine temporis, in ipsa cruce; tibi tamen ac mihi, id est, unicuique homini singulari, tum occisus, cum credit in occisum. Quod perinde est ac si dixisset, Occisi sive mortui Christi beneficium tum ad nos pertinere cum incipimus in eum credere.

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John Davenant — Dissertationes duae from the 1650 Cambridge Latin. Honest partial through De praedestinatione Cap. 1 subject tip; Cap. 1 mid-Thesis and remainder remain; De praedestinatione Cap. 1 Prolegomena IV distinguishing conditions tip; De praedestinatione Cap. II Variae (Pelagian opening) tip; De praedestinatione Cap. II Scholastici / Vasquez Arg. 1 tip; De praedestinatione Cap. II Arg. 2 praescientia tip; De praedestinatione Cap. II Arg. 3 (1 Cor. 2:9) tip; De praedestinatione Cap. II Arg. 4 (2 Tim. 2:21) tip; De praedestinatione Cap. II Arg. 5 (1 Tim. 2:4) tip; De praedestinatione Cap. II Arg. 6 (James 2:5) tip; De praedestinatione Cap. II Arg. 7 (Apoc. 3:11) tip; De praedestinatione Cap. III Rat. 1 (common inefficacious will) tip; De praedestinatione Cap. III Rat. 2 (Vasquez physical vs moral media) tip; De praedestinatione Cap. III Rat. 3 (king/prize / victory foresight) tip; De praedestinatione Cap. III Rat. 4 (optimum modus / crown of justice) tip; De praedestinatione Cap. III Rat. 5 (acceptor personarum) tip; De praedestinatione Cap. III Rat. 6 (misericordia/congruitas) tip; De praedestinatione Cap. III Rat. 7 (equal disposition) tip; De praedestinatione Cap. III Rat. 8 (few saved / major part) tip; De praedestinatione Cap. III Rat. 9 (Stephen / glory from others' sins) tip; De praedestinatione Cap. III Rat. 10 (mere beneplacitum / Predestinati) tip; De praedestinatione Cap. III reprobation ratio (foresight of sin) tip; De praedestinatione Cap. III Rat. 12 (efficacious election / free choice) tip; De praedestinatione Cap. III Rat. 13 (hortation/prayer) tip; De praedestinatione Cap. III Rat. 14 (decree/execution conformity) tip; De praedestinatione Cap. IV Arminianorum open tip; De praedestinatione Cap. IV Arg. 1 Sol tip; De praedestinatione Cap. IV Arg. 7 (τρόπος; Rom. 9:22) tip; De praedestinatione Cap. IV Arg. 8 (ordo exsecutionis) tip; De praedestinatione Cap. IV Arg. 9 (Christus fundamentum) tip; De praedestinatione Cap. V Obj. 1 (amor ad salutem) tip; De praedestinatione Cap. V Obj. 2 (actualis vitae datio) tip; De praedestinatione Cap. V Obj. 3 (qualis existens) tip; De praedestinatione Cap. V Obj. 4 (justitiae satisfactio) tip; De praedestinatione Cap. V Obj. 5 (natura vitae aeternae) tip; De praedestinatione Cap. V Obj. 6 (Christus a decreto) tip; De praedestinatione Cap. V Obj. 7 (Evangelium invertitur) tip; De praedestinatione Cap. V Obj. 8 (arcana/revelata) tip; De praedestinatione Cap. VI (Orthodoxa sententia) tip; De praedestinatione Cap. VI Arg. 2 (gratia specialis) tip; De praedestinatione Cap. VI Arg. 3 (Scripturae) tip; De praedestinatione Cap. VI Arg. 4 (vocatio) tip; De praedestinatione Cap. VI Arg. 5 (adjutorium) tip; De praedestinatione Cap. VI Arg. 7 (inconveniens) tip; De praedestinatione Cap. VI Arg. 8 (perseverantia) tip; De praedestinatione Cap. VI Arg. 9 (unica ratio) tip; De praedestinatione Cap. VI Arg. 10 (abyssus) tip; De praedestinatione Cap. VI Arg. 11 (efficacia) tip; De praedestinatione Cap. VI Arg. 12 (segregativum) tip; De praedestinatione Cap. VI Arg. 13 (pura gratia) tip; De praedestinatione Cap. VII open (reprobatio) tip; De praedestinatione Cap. VII Junius trifariam tip; De praedestinatione Cap. VIII open (adversariorum) tip; Cap. VIII peccata-causa tip; Cap. VIII fewer-reprobates tip; Cap. VIII Argentina tip; Cap. VIII dives-misericordia tip; Cap. VIII Corvinus tip into Cap. IX; Cap. IX Ab Adae tip; Cap. IX Ab Adae Christus omnibus+Minor tip; Cap. IX Arg. 3 Sol tip; Cap. IX vocatione Evangelica tip; Cap. IX vocatione Sol cont. tip; Cap. IX Arg. 6 Sol cont. tip.

English follows locked 1650 Cambridge Latin of De morte Christi Cap. 1-6 opening (origin + Thesis 1 + Cap. 2 Rat. 1-ultima + Cap. 3 Satisfit through Obj. 17 + Cap. 4 Thesis 2 tip through Mem. 1 close + Cap. 4 Mem. 2 through Mem. 3 tip + Cap. 4 Mem. 3 possible-faith through Thesis 2 close + Cap. 5 Thesis 3 tip through Mem. 2 Scripture close + Cap. 5 Mem. 2 Rat. 1-4 + Cap. 5 Mem. 2 Fathers tip + Cap. 5 Mem. 2 Huberiana objections tip through Obj. 3 Solut close + Cap. 5 Mem. 2 elect-from-eternity objections tip through Obj. 3 Solut close + Cap. 5 Mem. 2 Scripture elect objections tip through Cap. 5 thesis close + Cap. 6 opening tip through Arg. 1 close before Arg. 2), reconstructed from the Internet Archive PDF (pdftotext + tesseract) of the Roger Daniel folio with DjVu OCR check. The 1683 reprint was not used as copy-text. No modern English was copied.

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