The Enchiridion 62

sant'Agostino d'Ippona (354–430 d.C.) · De fide spe et charitate · PL 40, 230–290

62 By the Sacrifice of Christ All Things are Restored, and Peace is Made Between Earth and Heaven PL 40, 261

And, of course, the holy angels, taught by God, in the eternal contemplation of whose truth their happiness consists, know how great a number of the human race are to supplement their ranks, and fill up the full tale of their citizenship. Wherefore the apostle says, that “all things are gathered together in one in Christ, both which are in heaven and which are on earth.” The things which are in heaven are gathered together when what was lost therefrom in the fall of the angels is restored from among men; and the things which are on earth are gathered together, when those who are predestined to eternal life are redeemed from their old corruption. And thus, through that single sacrifice in which the Mediator was offered up, the one sacrifice of which the many victims under the law were types, heavenly things are brought into peace with earthly things, and earthly things with heavenly. Wherefore, as the same apostle says: “For it pleased the Father that in Him should all fullness dwell: and, having made peace through the blood of His cross, by Him to reconcile all things to Himself: by Him, I say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.”

Quomodo in Christo instaurantur omnia, et pacificantur. Et utique noverunt Angeli sancti docti de Deo, cujus veritatis aeterna contemplatione beati sunt, quanti numeri supplementum de genere humano integritas illius civitatis exspectet. Propter hoc ait Apostolus instaurari omnia in Christo, quae in coelis sunt, et quae in terris, in ipso . Instaurantur quippe quae in coelis sunt, cum id quod inde in angelis lapsum est, ex hominibus redditur: instaurantur autem quae in terris sunt, cum ipsi homines qui praedestinati sunt ad aeternam vitam, a corruptionis vetustate renovantur. Ac sic per illud singulare sacrificium in quo Mediator est immolatus, quod unum multae in Lege victimae figurabant, pacificantur coelestia cum terrestribus, et terrestria cum coelestibus. Quoniam sicut idem apostolus dicit, In ipso complacuit omnem plenitudinem inhabitare, et per eum reconciliari omnia in ipsum, pacificans per sanguinem crucis ejus, sive quae in terris sunt, sive quae in coelis .

Philip Schaff (ed.), Buffalo/New York: Christian Literature Publishing Co., 1886-1889. Public domain: English translation first published 1885-1900 (Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, First Series). Latin: Migne, Patrologia Latina (1844-1855), public domain; transcription from Corpus Corporum (University of Zurich).

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