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Distinction XXXVI | 153 ON EZECHIEL. Hence Jerome: "Whatever is not from God, who alone truly is, is said not to be";' and so sin, which leads us away from true being, is said to be nothing or not to be.—But others say that each form, namely any form which naturally is, and all that naturally is, is from God; but the form of an idol does not exist naturally, because it does not serve the nature of justice. For that is said to exist naturally which serves, and does not rebound against, the simple nature of justice, which is God, and does not deform a created nature.
3. ON THE SECOND PRECEPT. The second precept is: You shall not take the name of your God in vain.* This is to say, according to the letter: You shall not swear God's name for nothing.°—IsIDORE. But what is commanded allegorically is that "you do not hold Christ, the Son of God, to be a creature (because every creature is subject to vanity),'° but to be equal to the Father.""!
4. ON THE THIRD. And the third is: Remember to make holy the Sabbath day. According to the letter, observing the Sabbath is being commanded; allegorically, that you hope for rest—here from vices and in the future in contemplation of God—from the Holy Spirit, that is, from God's charity and gift; not that the Holy Spirit works this without the Father and the Son.
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1. WHY REMISSION IS PROPERLY SAID TO BE DONE IN THE HOLY SPIRIT.
—AUGUSTINE, ON THE BLASPHEMY AGAINST THE HOLY SPIRIT: "The
Church without fail receives this gift so that remission of sin be done in the Holy Spirit. Although the Trinity works this remission, yet it is properly said to pertain to the Holy Spirit, because he is the Spirit of our adoption as children'';'" he is the love and connection or fellowship of Father and Son,° and for that reason our justification and rest is more often attributed to him.*
2. These are the three commandments of the first tablet and they pertain to God. And the first, which is about the worship of the one God,
7Jerome, /n Ezechielem 26, 19.
PR 20 Ts Deut 5014:
*Interlinear gloss, on Ex. 20, 7.
SCT Roms, 20; Ordinary gloss, on Ex. 20, 2 and Deut. 5, 11; from Isidore, Quaestiones de veteri et novo Testamento, In Exodum, c29 n3.
'Cf. Rom. 8, 15.
*Augustine, Sermo 71, c17 n28.
3See Bk 1 dist. 10 c2 nn4-5 and dist. 31 c6.
"Interlinear gloss, on Ex. 20, 8.