Mozley: A Treatise on the Augustinian Doctrine of

214 Augustinian Doctrine CHAP. Tin.
good fruit. And the Apostle Paul, when he says that
cupidity is the root of all evil, intimates also that love is
the root of all good.
If therefore the two trees good and
evil are two men good and evil, what is the good man but
the man of good will that ; is, the tree of good fruit ? And
what is the evil man but the man of an evil will that ;
is,
the tree of an evil root ? And the fruits of these two trees
are acts, words, thoughts, which if good proceed from a
good will, and if evil from an evil will. And man makes a
good tree when he receives the grace of God. For he does
not make himself good out of evil by himself ; but of Him,
and through Him, and in Him who is good And
he makes an evil tree, when he makes himself evil, when
he departs from immutable good ; for the origin of an evil
will is that departure. l In this passage the lives and ac
tions of the good and evil man are referred in the first
place to two immediate or proximate roots, and then to
two ultimate or original ones. The proximate roots of
the two respectively are a good and evil will, which he calls
also love and cupidity. The original roots, or those from
which this good and evil will themselves spring, are grace
and sin.
and root
( Man makes a good tree or root, [tree
being synonymous here] when he receives the grace of
God ; for he does not make himself good by himself, but of
1 Habemus autem, inquit, possi- bona et mala sunt, duo homines,
bilitatem utriusque partis a Deo in- bonus et malus, quid est bonus
sitam, velut quandam, ut ita dicam, homo, nisi voluntatis bonse, hoc est
radicem fructiferam atque fecxindam arbor radicis bonse? et quid est
quse ex voluntate hominis diversa homo malus, nisi voluntatis malse,
gignat et pariat, et quse possit ad
proprii
hsec est arbor radicis malse ? Fruc-
cultoris arbitrium, vel nitere
flore virtutum, vel sentibus horrere
vitiorum. Ubi non intuens quod
loquatur, unam eandemque radicem
constituit bonorum et malorum, contus
autem harum radicum atque
arborum facta sunt, dicta sunt,
cogitata sunt, quse bona de bona
voluntate procedunt, et mala de
mala. Facit autem homo arborem
tra evangelicam veritatem doctri- bonam, quando Dei accipit gratiam.
namque apostolicam. Nam et Do- Non autem se ex malo bonum per
minus nee arborem bonam dicit seipsum facit, sed in illo et per ilium,
posse facere fructus malos, nee ma- et in illo qui semper est bonus. . .
lam bpnos; et Apostolus Paulus Malam vero arborem facit quando
cum dicit radicem malorum omnium seipsum malum facit, quando a
esse cupiditatem, admonet utique bono immutabili deficit. De Gratia
intelligi radicem bonorum omnium Christi, c. 18, 19.
charitatem. Unde si duae arbores