Cap. 5 Mem. 2 Fathers: Bede — each is reconciled when he believes the slain
Last I will bring forward the most express testimony of the Venerable Bede, found in his Commentaries on 2 Corinthians 5: Through faith the world is reconciled to God, when it believes in Christ who was sent by God.
The Apostle had said that God in Christ reconciled the world to himself — that is, that Christ by God’s ordination paid that ransom to the Father, whereby it was effected that God does not exact from us satisfaction for our sins before he returns into grace with us, but, content with this alone, is ready to receive anyone into grace.
If you still ask whether, this price having been paid, by the very fact of the payment all human beings are at once reconciled, Bede answers: By no means that; but each one is then reconciled to God when he himself believes in Christ who was sent by God.
Those words of the same author on Luke 15 have the same mind: Then for each of us Christ is slain, when he believes him slain. He was slain from the origin of the world in the Divine acceptation; slain also, when the fullness of time came, on the cross itself; yet for you and for me — that is, for each singular human being — then slain when he believes in the slain. Which is just as if he had said: the benefit of the slain or dead Christ then pertains to us when we begin to believe in him.
Latin
Ultimo proferam testimonium venerabilis Bedae expressissimum, quod habetur in Commentariis ejus supra 2 Cor. v. Per fidem mundus reconciliatur Deo, cum credit in Christum, qui missus est a Deo. Dixerat Apostolus Deum in Christo mundum reconciliasse sibi, id est, Christum ex Dei ordinatione illud λυτρον Patri dependisse, quo effectum est ut Deus non a nobis exposcat satisfactionem pro peccatis nostris, antequam nobiscum redeat in gratiam, sed hoc solo contentus, paratus sit quemlibet in gratiam recipere. Si adhuc quaeras, numquid soluto hoc pretio ipso facto solutionis universi homines statim reconciliantur, respondet Beda, Minime illud quidem; sed unusquisque tum reconciliatur Deo, cum ipse credit in Christum, qui missus est a Deo. Eandem habent mentem & illa verba ejusdem autoris in Luc. xv. Tum unicuique nostrum occiditur Christus, cum credit occisum. Occisus fuit ab origine mundi in acceptatione Divina; occisus etiam, adveniente plenitudine temporis, in ipsa cruce; tibi tamen ac mihi, id est, unicuique homini singulari, tum occisus, cum credit in occisum. Quod perinde est ac si dixisset, Occisi sive mortui Christi beneficium tum ad nos pertinere cum incipimus in eum credere.