This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1868 edition. Excerpt: ...be involved in deeper guilt, by losing the grace of the bene'diction once received." These words mark strongly St. Ambrose's sense of what we should call the sacramental nature of the transaction. In substance, that view is sanctioned also by St. Chrysostom d. "Rebecca," he says, "did this not of her ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1868 edition. Excerpt: ...be involved in deeper guilt, by losing the grace of the bene'diction once received." These words mark strongly St. Ambrose's sense of what we should call the sacramental nature of the transaction. In substance, that view is sanctioned also by St. Chrysostom d. "Rebecca," he says, "did this not of her own mind, but in obedience to the divine oracle. What then? a man may say, did God co-operate with such a falsehood? Nay, my brother, consider not simply what was done, but look to the purpose: that he did it not for any kind of worldly advantage, but sought to attract to himself his father's blessing. If we are always to look simply to the deed done, and not in every case to regard also the end, we shall have for the next thing to call Abraham an infanticide, and Phinehas a murderer. But not so... for each of them was accomplishing a Divine decree.... Still more in this case your thoughts are not to dwell on the words of Jacob being formally a falsehood, but you are to understand that God, willing to bring His prediction to accomplishment, caused the whole so to take place by way of economy." So far St. Chrysostom, who proceeds to point out God's hand in many minute details of the transaction, such as Isaac's doubts being overruled; the special circumstance of his kissing Jacob, and limiting the blessing to him whom he kissed, as by a kind of sacramental sign; and Esau's not returning from the field until the economy was complete. St. Chrysostom, we see, dwells chiefly on the marks of providential interference in the literal transaction: others have brought out in a strong light the allegorical force of the things then said and done, from hints given incidentally in other parts of the Bible. Thus St. Ambrosee, not...
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