Cap. X Arg. V Minor close: apostates were never given to Christ; Augustine De corr. & grat. 7 — non-perseverance follows non-election, not foresight of non-perseverance
Explain also that by which apostates, even while with us, are still not of us. They will find nothing to rest in except this: they were not given to Christ by the Father—passed by, reprobated, and not written in the book of life, the catalogue of divine election. So being reprobate or those not chosen is prior in order to being foreseen as one who will fall into Augustine saw this rightly (De correptione et gratia 7): Those who will not persevere are not set apart by God’s foreknowledge and predestination from that mass of perdition, and so are neither called according to purpose, nor elect. He does not say they were not elect because they were foreseen as non-persevering; he teaches that those will not persevere who were not antecedently elect and set apart from the mass of perdition.
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Expediat etiam quid illud sit per quod apostatae etiam cum nobiscum sunt, non sunt tamen ex nobis. Nihil profecto aliud reperient in quo consistere possunt, praeterquam quod non fuerunt donati Christo a Patre, hoc est praeteriti, reprobati fuerunt, et in libro vitae, sive catalogo electionis Divinae, minime conscripti. Esse ergo reprobatum vel non-electum est ordine prius quam esse praevisum ut in apostasiam labentem et in eadem permanentem. Hoc recte observavit Augustinus, De corr. et grat. cap. 7. hisce verbis, Qui perseveraturi non sunt, non sunt a massa illa perditionis praescientia Dei et praedestinatione discreti, et ideo nec secundum propositum vocati, ac per hoc nec electi. Non dicit Augustinus, quia praevidebantur minime perseveraturi, ideo non fuisse electos: sed docet, eos non esse perseveraturos qui non fuerunt antecedenter electi et a massa perditionis discreti.