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This is one in a series from Jaques-Benigne Bossuet's Elevations on the Mysteries, and specifically the Fifth Day. There is more here on the Bossuet Project. But the great penalty of sin, which alone is proportionate, is eternal death, and this punishment of sin is locked up in sin itself; for sin being nothing other …
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This is one in a series from Jaques-Benigne Bossuet's Elevations on the Mysteries, and specifically the Fifth Day. There is more here on the Bossuet Project. In the day that you eat the forbidden fruit, you will die of death. In the very end you will die of the death of the soul, which will …
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This is one in a series from Jaques-Benigne Bossuet's Elevations on the Mysteries, and specifically the Fifth Day. There is more here on the Bossuet Project. And God said, Give in to Adam, who has become like one of us, knowing good and evil. Let us take care, then, that one may put his hand …
This is one in a series from Jaques-Benigne Bossuet's Elevations on the Mysteries, and specifically the Fifth Day. There is more here on the Bossuet Project. And the Lord God made garments of skins for Adam and his wife, and clothed them. Man becomes not only mortal, but exposed, by his mortality, to all the …
This is one in a series from Jaques-Benigne Bossuet's Elevations on the Mysteries, and specifically the Fifth Day. There is more here on the Bossuet Project. God said to Adam: Because you have listened to the word of your wife. This is where the accusation begins: the man is convinced at first of going along …
This is one in a series from Jaques-Benigne Bossuet's Elevations on the Mysteries, and specifically the Fifth Day. There is more here on the Bossuet Project. The Lord said to this woman: I will multiply your calamities and your births; you will give birth in pain. Fertility is the glory of women; it is there …
This is one in a series from Jaques-Benigne Bossuet's Elevations on the Mysteries, and specifically the Fifth Day. There is more here on the Bossuet Project. And God said to Eve, Why did you do that? She replied: The serpent deceived me. But why did you let yourself be fooled? Did you not have all …
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This is one in a series from Jaques-Benigne Bossuet's Elevations on the Mysteries, and specifically the Fifth Day. There is more here on the Bossuet Project. Here we must compare the order of the crime with the order of divine justice. The crime begun by the serpent is continued in Eve, and is finished in …
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This is one in a series from Jaques-Benigne Bossuet's Elevations on the Mysteries, and specifically the Fifth Day. There is more here on the Bossuet Project. As God was walking in paradise (for, for the reasons that have been said, we saw that he appeared to them under visible figures), they heard the noise. Adam …
This is one in a series from Jaques-Benigne Bossuet's Elevations on the Mysteries, and specifically the Fifth Day. There is more here on the Bossuet Project. Who can say how enormous the crime of having fallen was, having recently left the hands of God; in such great happiness, in such great happiness of not sinning? …
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