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The root chasad has a primary meaning of 'eager and ardent desire', used both in the sense 'good, kind' and 'shame, contempt'. [2] The noun chesed inherits both senses, on one hand 'zeal, love, kindness towards someone' and on the other 'zeal, ardour against someone; envy, reproach'. In its positive sense it is used to describe mutual ...
He taught that Adam's sin [a] is transmitted by concupiscence, or "hurtful desire", [7] [8] resulting in humanity becoming a massa damnÄta (mass of perdition, condemned crowd), with much enfeebled, though not destroyed, freedom of will. [9] Augustine insisted that concupiscence was not a being but a bad quality, the privation of good or a ...
In Christian theology, baptism of desire (Latin: baptismus flaminis, lit. 'baptism of the breath', due to the belief that the Holy Spirit is the breath of God [1]), also called baptism by desire, is a doctrine according to which a person is able to attain the grace of justification through faith, perfect contrition and the desire for baptism, without the water baptism having been received.
The word translated as woman is gyne, which can mean either woman or wife. Some scholars believe that Jesus is only talking about lusting after another's wife, not the attraction of a man to a woman in general. [3] Nolland notes that sexual desire is not condemned in Matthew or in the contemporary literature, only misdirected desire. [4]
Accordingly Augustine includes two things in the definition of sin; one, pertaining to the substance of a human act, and which is the matter, so to speak, of sin, when he says, word, deed, or desire; the other, pertaining to the nature of evil, and which is the form, as it were, of sin, when he says, contrary to the eternal law.
In the King James Version of the Bible, the text reads: But if ye had known what this meaneth, I will have mercy, and not sacrifice, ye would not have condemned the guiltless. The New International Version translates the passage as: If you had known what these words mean, 'I desire mercy, not sacrifice', you would not have condemned the innocent.
The believer does not wish to remain merely on the level of faith but to grasp directly the object of faith, who is God himself. [61] Thus only the fullness of the beatific vision satisfies this fundamental desire of the human soul to know God. Quoting Paul, Aquinas notes "We see now in a glass darkly, but then face to face" (1 Cor. 13,12).
Hope is a combination of the desire for something and expectation of receiving it. The Christian virtue is hoping specifically for Divine union and so eternal happiness. While faith is a function of the intellect, hope is an act of the will.