Chapter 9 (131): 1. Whether The Fear Of Pain, Which Was In Christ, Was Servile,
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Chapter 9 (131)
1. WHETHER THE FEAR OF PAIN, WHICH WAS IN CHRIST, WAS SERVILE,
INITIAL, OR SOME OTHER KIND. But since there was in Christ fear of pain,' it is asked whether this fear was worldly, or servile, or initial—To which we say that none of these was in Christ, because worldly fear is evil, as was said earlier, and "in the first degree, it is abandoned with the world"; but servile or initial fear does not exist in perfect charity, and so none of these fears was in Christ.
2. Which, then, was that fear by which he feared pain? That fear may be called natural or human, which exists in all men, by which death makes one shiver and pain engenders fear. And this fear is not called natural because it was part of man from nature as it was first instituted, since this fear was not made part of man, nor is it one of the natural goods; [it is so called] because it came to everyone from a nature corrupted by sin, upon which corruption grew as if it had been natural. And this fear is the effect of sin, as has been said earlier.'
DISTINCTION XXX V
Chapter 1 (132) 1. HOW WISDOM AND KNOWLEDGE DIFFER. After the above matters, it is to be diligently considered in what wisdom differs from knowledge.
2. AUGUSTINE, IN BOOK 14, ON THE TRINITY.—DEFINITION OF WISDOM
ACCORDING TO THE PHILOSOPHERS. Concerning this, Augustine says: "In disputing about wisdom, the philosophers have defined it in these words:
Wisdom is the knowledge of things human and divine. I too do not deny that the knowledge of both of these, that is, divine and human things, may be called both wisdom and knowledge."!
3. DISTINCTION BETWEEN WISDOM AND KNOWLEDGE ACCORDING TO
THE THEOLOGIANS. "But this definition is to be divided according to the distinction of the Apostle, in which he said: To one is given the word of wisdom, to another the word of knowledge,' so that the knowledge of things divine may properly be called wisdom, and the cognition of things human may properly obtain the name of knowledge. But I do not attribute everything that can be known by man as to things human to this science,
'As to which, see above, dist. 15 c2.
*See above, c4 nl, from Cassiodorus.
Dist. 16 cl n2.
'Augustine, De Trinitate, bk 14 cl n3.
"I Cocsl2. 38.