Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Patristics

For it seems unjust that, in the absence of any merit or demerit, from good over evil works, God should love the one and hate the other. Now, if the apostle had wished us to understand that there were future good works of the one, and evil works of the other, which of course God foreknew, he would never have said, 'not of works,' but, 'of future works,' and in this way would have solved the difficulty, or rather there would then have been no difficulty to solve.” Augustine, Enchiridion, XCVIII, NPNF1, 3:268

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