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Often appears with: will, choice, and freedom · justice as a virtue · warning against sloth · state of innocence · sin, guilt, and repentance · punishment and rewards · predestination · merit and grace · marriage and intercourse · marriage and betrothal · human humility · gratitude and ingratitude
Usually: argument (3) · temptation (2) · detachment (2) · exhortation (1) · indignation (1)
“This is what Augustine means by the words quoted, which do not exclude intensity of pleasure from the state of innocence, but ardor of desire and restlessness of the mind.” Thomas, Aquinas, Saint, Summa Theologica, Part I (Prima Pars) · insight
“Therefore, to avoid striking on either of these rocks, this will be the course to be pursued—that man, being taught that he has nothing good left in his possession, and being surrounded on every side with the most miserable necessity, should, nevertheless, be instructed to aspire to the good of which he is destitute, and to the liberty of which he is deprived; and should be roused from indolence with more earnestness, than if he were supposed to be possessed of the greatest strength.” Jean Calvin, Institutes of the Christian Religion (Vol. 1 of 2) · precept
Aquinas replies that, despite sin and ejection from paradise, intercourse and desire in innocence would have been governed by reason rather than lust, so fecundity would occur without inordinate longing.
spirituality of mind, yet with an animal life in his body. After the resurrection man will be like an angel, spiritualized in soul and body. Wherefore there is no parallel. Reply Obj. 2: As Augustine says (Gen. ad lit. ix, 4), our first parents did not come together in paradise, because on account of sin they were ejected from paradise shortly after the creation of the woman; or because, having received the general …
Calvin transitions to freedom of will, stating that sin’s domination over humanity should drive people away from sloth and from self-boasting, humbling them to seek God’s help.
Subjected To A Miserable Slavery. Since we have seen that the domination of sin, from the time of its subjugation of the first man, not only extends over the whole race, but also exclusively possesses every soul, it now remains to be more closely investigated, whether we are despoiled of all freedom, and, if any particle of it yet remain, how far its power extends. But, that we may the more easily discover the truth…
He responds that punishments remain just and rewards remain gracious even if human choices are not “free”; he uses Augustine and Paul to argue God crowns his gifts, not human merits.
transition from what is voluntary to what is free; but we have before evinced, that a thing may be done voluntarily, which yet is not the subject of free choice. II. They add, that unless both virtues and vices proceed from the free choice of the will, it is not reasonable either that punishments should be inflicted, or that rewards should be conferred on man. This argument, though first advanced by Aristotle, yet I…