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| That God Foreknew that the First Man Would Sin, and that He at the Same Time Foresaw How Large a Multitude of Godly Persons Would by His Grace Be Translated to the Fellowship of the Angels.
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Chapter 22.—That God Foreknew
that the First Man Would Sin, and that He at the Same Time Foresaw
How Large a Multitude of Godly Persons Would by His Grace Be
Translated to the Fellowship of the Angels.
And God was not ignorant that man
would sin, and that, being himself made subject now to death, he
would propagate men doomed to die, and that these mortals would run
to such enormities in sin, that even the beasts devoid of rational
will, and who were created in numbers from the waters and the
earth, would live more securely and peaceably with their own kind
than men, who had been propagated from one individual for the very
purpose of commending concord. For not even lions or dragons have
ever waged with their kind such wars as men have waged with one
another.566
| 566 “Quando leoni
Fortior eripuit vitam leo? quo
nemore unquam
Exspiravit aper majoris dentibus
apri?
Indica tigris agit rabida cum
tigride pacem
Perpetuam; sævis inter se convenit
ursis.
Ast homini,”etc.
Juvenal,
Sat. xv. 160—5.
—See also the very striking lines which
precede these. | But God
foresaw also that by His grace a people would be called to
adoption, and that they, being justified by the remission of their
sins, would be united by the Holy Ghost to the holy angels in
eternal peace, the last enemy, death, being destroyed; and He knew
that this people would derive profit from the consideration that
God had caused all men to be derived from one, for the sake of
showing how highly He prizes unity in a multitude.E.C.F. INDEX & SEARCH
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