bate eternal fire. Thus, the Psalmist [5:6] says: "Thou hatest all who work iniquity." Hence, because the pride of the reprobate, in proportion as they hate God, always ascends after final impenitence, they are not of Christ's body. For St. Augustine says: Sermon on the Lord's Words, 53 [Migne's ed., 354, vol. 39: 1568]: "A lowly head and a proud member! Nay. He who loves pride does not wish to be of the body of Christ the head." And again, Sermon 50 [Migne's ed., 138, vol. 38: 765], he says: "Christ spoke truly in regard to certain shepherds, for he holds all good shepherds in himself, when he said: "I am the chief Shepherd and all ye are one in me.'[1] But the reprobate, who is a member of the devil, is not duly joined together in the same structure with his head." Augustine also, de doct. Christi, 3: 32 [Nic. Fathers, 2: 569], after he shows that Christ and his body, which is the church, are one person, censures Tychonius,[2] who in his second
rule calls the whole human family the twofold—bipartitum—body of the Lord. This, he says, "was no proper name to apply to the body of Christ. That in truth is not the Lord's body that will not be with him through eternity. Tychonius ought
- ↑ Huss's text differs from Augustine's, which runs: ego sum pastor bonus, etc.—"I am the good Shepherd. I am, I am one. All are one with me in unity. He who feeds apart from me, feeds against me. He who gathers not with me, scattereth abroad. Hear how greatly this unity is commended! 'I have other sheep which are not of this fold.'" Augustine then goes on to say that "among the nations there were predestinate persons, who were not of the people of Israel according to the flesh. These will not be outside of that fold—ovile—for he must bring them also that there may be one flock—grex—and one shepherd." Here Augustine departs from the text of the Vulgate, which has unum ovile—fold—in both places, and conforms to the Greek original, which has two different words.
- ↑ Tychonius, a scholarly North African belonging to the Donatist party, flourished about 400 and was an extensive author. Bede quotes him as essentially orthodox except on the question of the Donatist schism. He departed from the Donatist teachings, however, in denying the visible millennial reign of one thousand years and in accepting non-Donatist baptism. Both he and Augustine were involved in the confusion of identifying the true church with a visible communion, although both made the church a mixed body. Tychonius set forth seven rules of exegesis. Huss's quotation is drawn from Augustine's treatment of the second rule. Tychonius's Book of Rules has been published by Burkitt in Texts and Studies, 4: 1, 1894.
