{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-3973","native_reference":{"book_number":50,"chapter_from":32,"chapter_to":32,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":5,"verse_to":5},"public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"verse-keyed-module-record","review_required":["English edition and exact text","author/work attribution","dating","verse mapping and citation kind","reuse and attribution","split author quotations and deduplicate"],"review_status":"unreviewed","source_html":"<p><b>Augustine of Hippo</b>: The vituperable children did not sin for him. What the Greek says: tékna mometá, some translate it as vituperable children, like the text that I quote; others for children stained; others for vicious children. From here a serious problem does not derive; There is no problem at all. But if those words were said in a general way: They sinned not for him -because the one who sins does not sin for God, does not harm God, but himself-, then the question of knowing how to understand what is that is read in the psalm: For you I have only sinned (Ps. 50,6). And in Jeremiah it is said: We have sinned for you, patience of Israel, O Lord! And again in a psalm it says: Heal my soul, because I have sinned for you (Ps. 40,5). And we want to know if it is the same thing to \"sin for God\" (peccare Deo) than to \"sin against God\" (peccare in Deum). In this respect the priest Eli says: If one sins against God, who will pray for him? (1R 2,25) Meanwhile, I will say what I think about the matter now. Maybe those who know these things better, or even myself at another time, as far as the Lord helps me, will understand a little better. \"To sin against God\" (in Deum) is to sin in that which is related to the divine worship. Because nothing else indicates the example I have just mentioned. So Eli's sons sinned, to whom his father had already told them this. In the same way we must think that sin is also committed against men who belong to God. Because we read that God said these same words to Abimelek about Sarah: That is why I have prevented you from sinning against me (Genesis 20,6). On the other hand, \"to sin for the Lord\" (Domino), or rather \"to have sinned for the Lord\" - unless there is somewhere a text of Scripture that opposes this sense - it seems that it can be said, not without reason, of those who do not make a pious penance of their sins to give glory to God, who forgives them. David, explaining the reason why he said: For you only I have sinned and I have done wrong in front of you, add the following words: So that you may be declared fair in your words and expire when you judge (Ps. 50,6). And the same when God says: Judge between me and between my vineyard (Isaiah 5,3). And the same when it is affirmed of our Lord Jesus Christ, the only one who could say with absolute truth: Because the Prince of this world is coming and against me he has nothing -no sin that is worthy of death-. But that I may know the world that I love the Father and that I work according to the command given me by the Father, rise up; let's get out of here (John 14,30.31). By this he means: Even if the Prince of the world pursues the smallest sins with the death penalty, he has nothing against me; but, get up; let's go from here, to suffer the passion, because suffering I fulfill the will of my Father; I do not pay the guilt of my sin. In relation to what Jeremiah says: We have sinned for you, patience of Israel, surely this is said in a supplicating way to the Lord in penance, waiting for salvation through forgiveness. The phrase: Heal my soul, because I have sinned for you, means the same, that is, that God be glorified forgiving, because his mercy is great for those who confess to him and turn to him, because he does not want death of the sinner, but to become and live (Cf Ez 33,11). He also answered like this, not only in the psalm, but also when God rebuked him through the prophet, not without the hope of the Lord's forgiveness: I sinned for the Lord (2R 12,13). For a person who puts himself in the hands of the doctor to cure him, is wounded to the doctor, so that the effectiveness of the medicine is fulfilled in it. Well, in this song the prophet predicted that there would be some who would sin by offending God with such great iniquities, that they would not be willing to do penance and return to God to be healed. Of these it is also said in another place: Because they are flesh; a breath that goes and does not return (Ps.77,39). The phrase: They sinned not for him, can also be understood in the sense that they did not hurt God with their sin, but themselves.<br/><i>— QUESTIONS ON DEUTERONOMY, Q. 55 (tr. J. Litteral, draft)</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"0b91a82dd47e5e7bfd5ce15e7b2c381f930bf6be5b39a920edb73f46757b82b1","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":3973,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"64c5287fc393f6de9928b599d996dd85a2ac4f87cd878b1f7711755b7367d40b","translator":null,"work":null}