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Appendix to Augustine's Sermones: Sermones supposititii, Sermo 240

Sermon CCXL

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SERMO CCXL. De Symbolo IV.

Sermon 240. On the Creed 4.

1. Quid quisque apostolus de Symbolo composuit.

1. What each apostle composed of the Creed.

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Footnotes

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Alias, inter Vignerianos 1, in parte prima Supplementi.

Formerly, first among Vignier's sermons, in the first part of the Supplement.

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In Appendice nunc primum collocatur. Symboli auctores Apostolos sic facit, ut suam cuique sententiam assignet concionator pro nutu. Neque has distribuendo sententias consentit ipse cum sermonis subsequentis scriptore, nisi (continues)

It is now placed in the Appendix for the first time. The preacher makes the Apostles the authors of the Creed in such a way that he assigns each his own clause at will. Nor in distributing these clauses does he agree with the writer of the following sermon, except (continues)

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Footnotes

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In Thoma, Thaddaeo et Matthia. Docet Christum hebraice dici unctum : et in caeteris demum minime respondet Augustino.

(continued) in Thomas, Thaddaeus and Matthias. He teaches that "Christ" means "anointed" in Hebrew; and in the rest, finally, he does not correspond to Augustine at all.

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credentes baptizare. Nos autem, fratres charissimi, fidem et Evangelium Apostolorum per successores eorum nobis traditum, fideliter, firmiterque teneamus; pactum etiam, quod cum Domino in Baptismate fecimus, inviolatum custodiamus; aut si peccando cadimus, poenitendo cito surgere studeamus: ut securi exspectemus adventum Christi secundum, his qui bona egerunt, plus quam in cor hominis possit ascendere, desiderabilem; illis vero qui mala egerunt, formidabilem nimis atque terribilem.

to baptize believers. But let us, dearest brothers, hold faithfully and firmly the faith and the Gospel of the Apostles handed down to us through their successors; let us also keep inviolate the pact which we made with the Lord in Baptism; or if we fall by sinning, let us strive to rise quickly by repenting, so that we may await without fear the second coming of Christ, which to those who have done good is desirable more than can rise up into the heart of man, but to those who have done evil is exceedingly dreadful and terrible.

Editors' notes and page, col. 2190

Footnotes

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Olim, de Tempore 115; et post, in Appendice 42.

Formerly, de Tempore 115; and afterwards, in the Appendix, 42.

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(b) ‹anchor: De Symbolo, V, (heading of the following sermon)› · call in col 2190

Incerti auctoris, qui Symbolum hic, « ut cum mysterio, » ait, « conveniat Trinitatis, » tertium usque repetit. Qua in re consentientem habet subsequentis sermonis scriptorem; sed nequaquam Augustinum, qui suo scripto sermone 214, de Symbolo, religione impediebatur, quominus Symbolum ipsum vel semel litteris mandaret. Symboli sententiae non eaedem hic semper, imo paucae iisdem Apostolis tribuuntur, quibus in superiore sermone.

By an uncertain author, who here repeats the Creed as many as three times, "so that," he says, "it may agree with the mystery of the Trinity." In this he has the writer of the following sermon agreeing with him, but by no means Augustine, who in his written Sermon 214, on the Creed, was restrained by religious scruple from committing the Creed itself to writing even once. The clauses of the Creed are not always assigned here to the same Apostles; indeed few are, compared with the preceding sermon.

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