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Augustine, De Peccatorum Meritis Et Remissione Et De Baptismo Parvulorum, 2.48

nan He is therefore the Saviour at once of infants and of adults, of whom the angel said, There is born unto you this day a Saviour; Luke 2:11 and concerning whom it was declared to the Virgin Mary, You shall call His name Jesus, for He shall save His people from their sins, where it is plainly shown that He was called Jesus because of the salvation which He bestows upon us - Jesus being tantamount to the Latin Salvator, Saviour. Who then can be so bold as to maintain that the Lord Christ is Jesus only for adults and not for infants also? Who came in the likeness of sinful flesh, to destroy the body of sin, with infants' limbs fitted and suitable for no use in the extreme weakness of such body, and His rational soul oppressed with miserable ignorance! Now that such entire ignorance existed, I cannot suppose in the infant in whom the Word was made flesh, that He might dwell among us; nor can I imagine that such weakness of the mental faculty ever existed in the infant Christ which we see in infants generally. For it is owing to such infirmity and ignorance that infants are disturbed with irrational affections, and are restrained by no rational command or government, but by pains and penalties, or the terror of such; so that you can quite see that they are children of that disobedience, which excites itself in the members of our body in opposition to the law of the mind - and refuses to be still, even when the reason wishes; nay, often is either repressed only by some actual infliction of bodily pain, as for instance by flogging; or is checked only by fear, or by some such mental emotion, but not by any admonishing of the will. Inasmuch, however, as in Him there was the likeness of sinful flesh, He willed to pass through the changes of the various stages of life, beginning even with infancy, so that it would seem as if even His flesh might have arrived at death by the gradual approach of old age, if He had not been killed while young. Nevertheless, the death is inflicted in sinful flesh as the due of disobedience, but in the likeness of sinful flesh it was undergone in voluntary obedience. For when He was on His way to it, and was soon to suffer it, He said, Behold, the prince of this world comes, and has nothing in me. But that all may know that I am doing my Father's will, arise, let us go hence. John 14:30-31 Having said these words, He went straightway, and encountered His undeserved death, having become obedient even unto death.

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1. Hebrew Bible, Job, 14.1, 14.4-14.5 (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE) 14.1. וְגֶבֶר יָמוּת וַיֶּחֱלָשׁ וַיִּגְוַע אָדָם וְאַיּוֹ׃ 14.1. אָדָם יְלוּד אִשָּׁה קְצַר יָמִים וּשְׂבַע־רֹגֶז׃ 14.4. מִי־יִתֵּן טָהוֹר מִטָּמֵא לֹא אֶחָד׃ 14.5. אִם חֲרוּצִים יָמָיו מִסְפַּר־חֳדָשָׁיו אִתָּךְ חקו [חֻקָּיו] עָשִׂיתָ וְלֹא יַעֲבוֹר׃ 14.1. Man that is born of a woman Is of few days, and full of trouble." 14.4. Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one." 14.5. Seeing his days are determined, The number of his months is with Thee, And Thou hast appointed his bounds that he cannot pass;"
2. Hebrew Bible, Proverbs, 8.35 (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE) 8.35. כִּי מֹצְאִי מצאי [מָצָא] חַיִּים וַיָּפֶק רָצוֹן מֵיְהוָה׃ 8.35. For whoso findeth me findeth life, And obtaineth favour of the LORD."
3. Hebrew Bible, Psalms, 37.23, 51.5, 51.7, 57.4 (9th cent. BCE - 3rd cent. BCE) 37.23. מֵיְהוָה מִצְעֲדֵי־גֶבֶר כּוֹנָנוּ וְדַרְכּוֹ יֶחְפָּץ׃ 51.5. כִּי־פְשָׁעַי אֲנִי אֵדָע וְחַטָּאתִי נֶגְדִּי תָמִיד׃ 51.7. הֵן־בְּעָווֹן חוֹלָלְתִּי וּבְחֵטְא יֶחֱמַתְנִי אִמִּי׃ 37.23. It is of the LORD that a man's goings are established; and He delighted in his way." 51.5. For I know my transgressions; And my sin is ever before me." 51.7. Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me."
4. New Testament, 1 Corinthians, 4.7 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) 4.7. For who makes you different? And what doyou have that you didn't receive? But if you did receive it, why do youboast as if you had not received it?
5. New Testament, Ephesians, 2.1-2.3 (1st cent. CE - 1st cent. CE) 2.1. You were made alive when you were dead in transgressions and sins 2.2. in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the powers of the air, the spirit who now works in the sons of disobedience; 2.3. among whom we also all once lived in the lust of our flesh, doing the desires of the flesh and of the mind, and were by nature children of wrath, even as the rest.
6. Augustine, De Peccatorum Meritis Et Remissione Et De Baptismo Parvulorum, 2.28, 2.30 (4th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE)
7. Augustine, On The Holy Trinity, 14 (4th cent. CE - 5th cent. CE)

Subjects of this text:

subject	book bibliographic info
adam and eve	Nisula, Augustine and the Functions of Concupiscence (2012) 93
augustine	Cheuk-Yin Yam, Trinity and Grace in Augustine (2019) 71
augustines works, c. mend.	Wilson, Augustine's Conversion from Traditional Free Choice to "Non-free Free Will": A Comprehensive Methodology (2018) 160
augustines works, nat. orig.	Wilson, Augustine's Conversion from Traditional Free Choice to "Non-free Free Will": A Comprehensive Methodology (2018) 160
augustines works, pecc. merit.	Wilson, Augustine's Conversion from Traditional Free Choice to "Non-free Free Will": A Comprehensive Methodology (2018) 160
augustines works, s.	Wilson, Augustine's Conversion from Traditional Free Choice to "Non-free Free Will": A Comprehensive Methodology (2018) 160
concupiscence	Wilson, Augustine's Conversion from Traditional Free Choice to "Non-free Free Will": A Comprehensive Methodology (2018) 160
cupiditas	Cheuk-Yin Yam, Trinity and Grace in Augustine (2019) 71
damnation, eternal	Wilson, Augustine's Conversion from Traditional Free Choice to "Non-free Free Will": A Comprehensive Methodology (2018) 160
divine punishment, analogical to grace	Nisula, Augustine and the Functions of Concupiscence (2012) 93
divine punishment, hidden causes and order of	Nisula, Augustine and the Functions of Concupiscence (2012) 93
divine punishment, transmission of	Nisula, Augustine and the Functions of Concupiscence (2012) 93
evil will, desiring-faculty	Wilson, Augustine's Conversion from Traditional Free Choice to "Non-free Free Will": A Comprehensive Methodology (2018) 160
evil will	Wilson, Augustine's Conversion from Traditional Free Choice to "Non-free Free Will": A Comprehensive Methodology (2018) 160
exemplum	Cheuk-Yin Yam, Trinity and Grace in Augustine (2019) 71
free choice/free will	Wilson, Augustine's Conversion from Traditional Free Choice to "Non-free Free Will": A Comprehensive Methodology (2018) 160
grace, analogical to punishment	Nisula, Augustine and the Functions of Concupiscence (2012) 93
guilt, and reatus, sin nature/propensity/principle	Wilson, Augustine's Conversion from Traditional Free Choice to "Non-free Free Will": A Comprehensive Methodology (2018) 160
horace	Wilson, Augustine's Conversion from Traditional Free Choice to "Non-free Free Will": A Comprehensive Methodology (2018) 160
imago dei	Cheuk-Yin Yam, Trinity and Grace in Augustine (2019) 71
iustitia, justice	Cheuk-Yin Yam, Trinity and Grace in Augustine (2019) 71
jesus christ	Cheuk-Yin Yam, Trinity and Grace in Augustine (2019) 71
know thyself	Cheuk-Yin Yam, Trinity and Grace in Augustine (2019) 71
liberum arbitrium	Wilson, Augustine's Conversion from Traditional Free Choice to "Non-free Free Will": A Comprehensive Methodology (2018) 160
marcellinus	Cheuk-Yin Yam, Trinity and Grace in Augustine (2019) 71
mens, notitia sui, amor sui	Cheuk-Yin Yam, Trinity and Grace in Augustine (2019) 71
mistranslations	Wilson, Augustine's Conversion from Traditional Free Choice to "Non-free Free Will": A Comprehensive Methodology (2018) 160
original sin, augustinian	Wilson, Augustine's Conversion from Traditional Free Choice to "Non-free Free Will": A Comprehensive Methodology (2018) 160
original sin, inherited/original guilt	Wilson, Augustine's Conversion from Traditional Free Choice to "Non-free Free Will": A Comprehensive Methodology (2018) 160
original sin, peccatum originale	Wilson, Augustine's Conversion from Traditional Free Choice to "Non-free Free Will": A Comprehensive Methodology (2018) 160
original sin	Wilson, Augustine's Conversion from Traditional Free Choice to "Non-free Free Will": A Comprehensive Methodology (2018) 160
paedobaptism	Wilson, Augustine's Conversion from Traditional Free Choice to "Non-free Free Will": A Comprehensive Methodology (2018) 160
pelagianism (pelagian movement), adams example in	Nisula, Augustine and the Functions of Concupiscence (2012) 93
pelagianism (pelagian movement)	Nisula, Augustine and the Functions of Concupiscence (2012) 93
pelagians	Nisula, Augustine and the Functions of Concupiscence (2012) 93
pelagius	Nisula, Augustine and the Functions of Concupiscence (2012) 93
proof texts	Wilson, Augustine's Conversion from Traditional Free Choice to "Non-free Free Will": A Comprehensive Methodology (2018) 160
purification of the soul, self-purification	Cheuk-Yin Yam, Trinity and Grace in Augustine (2019) 71
reatus	Wilson, Augustine's Conversion from Traditional Free Choice to "Non-free Free Will": A Comprehensive Methodology (2018) 160
rhetoric	Wilson, Augustine's Conversion from Traditional Free Choice to "Non-free Free Will": A Comprehensive Methodology (2018) 160
spirituality, spiritual exercise, spiritual journey'	Cheuk-Yin Yam, Trinity and Grace in Augustine (2019) 71
the will	Wilson, Augustine's Conversion from Traditional Free Choice to "Non-free Free Will": A Comprehensive Methodology (2018) 160
tichonius tychonius	Wilson, Augustine's Conversion from Traditional Free Choice to "Non-free Free Will": A Comprehensive Methodology (2018) 160
vitium	Wilson, Augustine's Conversion from Traditional Free Choice to "Non-free Free Will": A Comprehensive Methodology (2018) 160