Early Church Fathers Scripture Index : Texts

Psalms 30:8

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Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Series 1, Volume 5, page 130, footnote 8 (Image)

Augustine: Anti-Pelagian Writings

A Treatise on Nature and Grace. (HTML)

Even Evils, Through God’s Mercy, are of Use. (HTML)

CCEL Footnote 1200 (In-Text, Margin)

He asserts that “no evil is the cause of anything good;” as if punishment, forsooth, were good, although thereby many have been reformed. There are, then, evils which are of use by the wondrous mercy of God. Did that man experience some good thing, when he said, “Thou didst hide Thy face from me, and I was troubled?” Certainly not; and yet this very trouble was to him in a certain manner a remedy against his pride. For he had said in his prosperity, “I shall never be moved;”[Psalms 30:8] and so was ascribing to himself what he was receiving from the Lord. “For what had he that he did not receive?” It had, therefore, become necessary to show him whence he had received, that he might receive in humility what he had lost in pride. Accordingly, ...