30. But, after that he had
made mention of these evils, he added and said, “On account of
which cometh the wrath of God on the sons of unbelief.”1923
Surely it
was a wholesome alarm that
believers might not think that they
could be
saved on account of their
faith alone, even although they
should
live in these evils: the
Apostle James with most clear
speech crying out against that notion, and saying, “If any say
that he have
faith, and have not works, shall his
faith be able to
save him?”
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Whence
also here the
Teacher of the Gentiles said, that on account of
these evils the
wrath of
God cometh on the sons of
unbelief. But
when he saith, “Wherein ye also walked sometime, when ye were
living therein;”
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he shows sufficiently that now
they were not living therein. Forsooth unto these they had
died,
that their
life might be hidden in
God with
Christ. When then they
were now not living in them, they were now bidden to
mortify such.
Forsooth, themselves not living in the same, the things were
living, as I have already shown a little above, and were called
their members, that is to say, those faults which dwelt in their
members; by a way of
speech, that which is contained through that
which contains; as it is said, The whole Forum talks of it, when
men talk who are in the Forum. In this very way of
speech it is
sung in the Psalm, “Let all the earth worship Thee:”
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that is,
all men who are in the earth.
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