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said: I live in the faith of the Son of God, who loved me and
delivered Himself up for me. 1
By these words he signified
that Jesus Christ would have died as soon for a single
soul as for the salvation of all men, says St. John Chrysostom
in his comment on this passage. 2 This our Re
deemer gave us to understand by the parable of the groat
that had been lost. On this parable St. Thomas writes:
calls together all the angels, not that all men, but
that he himself may be congratulated on account of
the groat that was found, as if man were God s God, as
if his salvation depended on man s finding him, and as if
God could not be happy "without him.
It is related by several authors* of St. Carpus, Bishop,
that he had a vision in which he seemed to see a scandal
ous sinner who had induced an innocent person to com
mit sin, and that he felt himself impelled by zeal to
throw him into a precipice on the brink of which he
stood, but Jesus Christ appeared to support the sinner
with his hand, and said to St. Carpus: Strike me, for I
am ready again to die for sinners." As if he said:
Hold, strike me rather than this sinner; for I have given
my life for him, and am ready to give it again to save
him from perdition.
The ecclesiastical spirit, says Louis Habert, 5 consists
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Dilexit me, et tradidit me."
semetipsum pro Gal. ii. 20.
Neque enim recusaturus esset vel ob unum hominem tantam
exhibere dispensationem."
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Angelos convocat ad congratulandum non homini, sed
sibi, quasi homo Dei Deus esset, et tota salus divina ab ipsius inventione
dependeret, et quasi sine ipso beatus esse non posset."
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Beat. c. 7.
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Percute me, quia iterum pro peccatoribus mori paratus sum."
Essentialiter consistit in ardenti studio promovendi gloriam Dei
et salutem proximi."
De Sacr. Ord. p. 3, c. 5.
* The first of these authors is St. Denis the Areopagite (Ep. ad
Demoph.}, and it is believed that St. Carpus, who had this vision, is
the one of v*h<Ma> SU Paul speaks in 2. Tim. iv. 13. ED.