{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-3961","native_reference":{"book_number":50,"chapter_from":29,"chapter_to":29,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":18,"verse_to":18},"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>: Is there among you man or woman, or family or tribe whose mind has departed from the Lord your God going to serve the gods of those people? Is there a root among you that grows in gall and bitterness? And it will happen that when someone hears the words of this curse and says in his heart, saying: \"Holy things happen to me, because I walk in the error of my heart so that the sinner does not lose at the same time the one who is without sin\", God He will not forgive him, but the anger of the Lord and his jealousy against that man will be kindled, and all the curses of this covenant that are written in the book of this law will fall on him. The text reads as follows: Is there anyone among you? You have to understand it, then, in the form of a question, in case there is one. If there had been, it filled him with terror, so that no one would say in his heart, upon hearing those curses: Be holy to me (curses be holy things to me), for I walk in the error of my heart, that is, I wish these things do not happen to me; that bad things do not happen to me, but holy things, that is, auspicious and favorable, because I walk in the error of my heart, following the gods of the Gentiles and giving them worship as with impunity. It will not be like that, therefore. That the sinner does not lose the one who is without sin at the same time. It means: make sure that no one of you convinces you to do these things who thinks them. God will not forgive him, both the one who thinks such things, and the one who has been persuaded by them, just as the other had thought when he said: Be holy to me, as if removing the force of that curse in this way. But then the wrath of the Lord and his jealousy will be kindled against that man, when he thinks that he will turn it away from himself, by saying those things in his heart. And all the curses of this covenant, which are written in the book of this law, will fall on him. All of them can not come on one man, because a man can not die so many times how many genera of deaths are announced here. The text says \"all\" by \"any\", so that he will not be free from all those to whom any of the curses that cause him to perish come to him. The words: So that the sinner does not lose at the same time the one who is without sin, it is not necessary to take them in the sense that the Greek word antarcton designates an absolutely clean and pure one of all sin, but the term anamárteton, literally « without sin \", refers to one who would be free from the sin that was being talked about. As when the Lord says in the Gospel: If I had not come and spoken to you, you would not have sin (John 15,22), where you do not mean that you would not have any sin, but that you would not have this sin if you did not believe in it. God also says to Abimelek, referring to Sarah, the wife of Abraham: I know that you did it with a clean heart. It is evident that the Lord did not mean to say that the heart of Abimelek was as clean as those of whom it is said: Blessed are the pure in heart, for they will see God. Abimelek had his heart clean of that sin that was involved, because, as far as he had depended, he had not wanted the other woman's. 53 (Deuteronomy 30.6). And the Lord will purify your heart and the heart of your offspring around you to love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul so that you may live. It is evident that it is the promise of grace. Well, God promises that he will do what he usually commands to be done.<br/><i>— QUESTIONS ON DEUTERONOMY, Q. 52 (tr. J. Litteral, draft)</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"3bc6a2fdcc2ac9594bab82314dd4eee9ea7bce5efdb4110e355e73bc3c79642d","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":3961,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"2bf3fd1342766ef3f3e0b2750c8d5cf8e540642c38f3c3da9d6df69fafec744b","translator":null,"work":null}