Two Dissertations · §725 · John Davenant

Cap. X Arg. V Major: Augustine — those given to Christ are ordained to eternal life, predestined and called according to purpose, none of whom perish; given = elect; not-given = reprobate/passed over

Augustine always liked this reading of those words: These are understood as given to Christ who are ordained to everlasting life. They are the predestined, and called according to purpose, of whom none perishes (De corr. et grat. Cap. 9). And in Tract. 106 on John's Gospel: Those whom God the elected from the world with the Father, the same as man the Son received from the world from the Father. For the Father would not have given them to the Son unless he had elected them. So you see: by those given to Christ, on Augustine's mind, nothing else is meant than the elect or predestined. And on the contrary, by the not-given the reprobate are meant — that is, the passed over and not predestined — which Augustine equally confesses.

Latin

Augustino haec praedictorum verborum semper placuit sententia: Hi Christo intelliguntur dari, qui ordinati sunt in vitam aeternam. Ipsi sunt illi praedestinati, et secundum propositum vocati, quorum nullus perit, De corr. et grat. cap. 9. Et in Evang. Joann. Tractat. 106. Quos Deus Filius de mundo elegit cum Patre, idem ipse homo Filius de mundo accepit a Patre. Non enim Pater illos Filio dedisset, nisi elegisset. Videtis igitur per datos Christo, ex mente Augustini, nil aliud intelligi, quam electos sive praedestinatos: Et e contra, per non-datos intelligi reprobatos, hoc est, praeteritos et minime praedestinatos, apud eundem Augustinum aeque in confesso est.

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