Mozley: A Treatise on the Augustinian Doctrine of

CHA.P. rv. of Original Sin. 113
of them, awarding a higher
or a lower rank in the uni
verse. 1 And an express allusion to a future life is made
in the application to the heathen of the passage in Hermas
relating to the salvation of just men before the law, be
stowed by means of a baptism after death. 2 But while a
proportionate eternal reward, in the case of the heathen,
is pointed to, no positive line is as yet drawn between the
heathen and the Christian states in eternity. One state
with different ranks in it is rather suggested, and all good
men considered Christians in their degree are admitted
to one common, though variously arranged, kingdom of
heaven. 3
II. But, secondly, the concession to the heathen of
some state of happiness after death not being abandoned,
we find, in course of time, the opinion established in the
Church, that original sin did exclude from that place of
supernatural happiness which was called the kingdom of
God, or the kingdom of heaven. Origen, while he pointedly
claims for heathen goodness some eternal reward, and so
applies the text Glory, honour, and peace to every man
that worketh good, to the Jew first, and also to the Gen
tile, at the same time excludes the heathen, as being still
under original sin, from the kingdom of heaven. 4 The
Pelagians, with a doctrine which did not support, or rather
opposed such a conclusion, deferred to an established dis
tinction, and excluded the unbaptized, whom the Church
at large regarded as under the guilt of original sin, though
they themselves acknowledged no such sin in the first
de Judaeis
1
BeA/riora aTroAOjU.jSaj etj/ eV 4
ry Quod (Rom. ii. 10)
irai/rl T^I/ Ta|/. Strom. 1. 7. c. 2. et Gentibus dicit, utrisque nondum
2
fls "AjSeA.,
a>s Nwe,
a>s
el TLS credentibus. Potest enim fieri . .
erepos 8i /coios. Strom. 1. 2. c. 9. ut Grsecus, i.e. Gentilis 8 Tbv . . . Xptffrbv. \6yov ovra, ov
justitiam
teneat. . . . Iste licet alienus a vita
irav yevos avdpwirwv /tereVxe Kal ot
fiera \6yov pidxravTfs xpumavol elcri,
videatur aeterna, quia non credit in
Christo, et intrare non possit in
Kav adeoi evo(j.i(T6i)(rav
ailov iv "E\-
*
\i}<Tt n.ev SttKpcd-rjs KOI Hpa/cAeiTos,
regnum ccelorum, quia renatus non
est ex aqua et Spiritu,videtur tamen
Kal ol 8fj.oioi avTois cV |8aj8j8apots Se quod per haec quae dicuntur ab
Appaan Kal Avai/ios, Kal A^apias, Apostolo, bonorum operum gloriam,
Kal Murafa, Kal ITAfov, KO! &\\oi et honorem, et pacem perdere pe-
iro\\oi. Justin, Apol. 1. 46., Ben. nitus non possit. In Eom. ii. 10.,
ed. vol. iv. p. 484.