Lessons 4-6 from the Divine Office of Sexagesima Sunday: Chapter 4 from the book concerning Noah and the Ark by St. Ambrose the Bishop.
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Lessons 4-6 from the Divine Office of Sexagesima Sunday: Chapter 4 from the book concerning Noah and the Ark by St. Ambrose the Bishop. . We read that the Lord was angry. However, God did bear in mind (that is, he knew) that man was hard put to remain sinless, placed, as he was, in flesh on earth; for earth is the home of temptations, and the flesh is the enticement of corruption. Yet man had a reasonable soul, and his soul had power to control his body; and, being so made, he nevertheless struggled but little to keep himself from falling into that from whence he would not desire to return. God's thoughts are not as man's thoughts; in him there is no such thing as change of mind, no such thing as to be angry and then cool down again. Therefore, anything said concerning God's anger is to be understood as setting forth the grievous nature of our sins, whereby we have (so to speak) merited the divine wrath. For iniquity had grown to such a degree that God, who by his nature cannot be moved by anger, or hatred, or any passion whatsoever, is represented as provoked to anger.
Lessons 4-6 from the Divine Office of Sexagesima Sunday: Chapter 4 from the book concerning Noah and the Ark by St. Ambrose the Bishop.
Lessons 4-6 from the Divine Office of…
Lessons 4-6 from the Divine Office of Sexagesima Sunday: Chapter 4 from the book concerning Noah and the Ark by St. Ambrose the Bishop.
Lessons 4-6 from the Divine Office of Sexagesima Sunday: Chapter 4 from the book concerning Noah and the Ark by St. Ambrose the Bishop. . We read that the Lord was angry. However, God did bear in mind (that is, he knew) that man was hard put to remain sinless, placed, as he was, in flesh on earth; for earth is the home of temptations, and the flesh is the enticement of corruption. Yet man had a reasonable soul, and his soul had power to control his body; and, being so made, he nevertheless struggled but little to keep himself from falling into that from whence he would not desire to return. God's thoughts are not as man's thoughts; in him there is no such thing as change of mind, no such thing as to be angry and then cool down again. Therefore, anything said concerning God's anger is to be understood as setting forth the grievous nature of our sins, whereby we have (so to speak) merited the divine wrath. For iniquity had grown to such a degree that God, who by his nature cannot be moved by anger, or hatred, or any passion whatsoever, is represented as provoked to anger.