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He offered
them redemption. That holds good in this example, where he who ransoms and
he who prevents death are two persons, but not of Jesus Christ, who does
both these things. No, for Jesus Christ, in the quality of Redeemer, is not
perhaps Master of all; and thus, in so far as it is in Him, He is the
Redeemer of all.

When it is said that Jesus Christ did not die for all, you take undue
advantage of a fault in men who at once apply this exception to themselves;
and is to favour despair, instead of turning them from it to favour hope.
For men thus accustom themselves in inward virtues by outward customs.

782. The victory over death. "What is a man advantaged if he gain the whole
world and lose his own soul? Whosoever will save his soul, shall lose it."

"I am not come to destroy the law, but to fulfil."

"Lambs took not away the sins of the world, but I am the lamb which taketh
away the sins."

"Moses hath not led you out of captivity, and made you truly free."

783.... Then Jesus Christ comes to tell men that they have no other enemies
but themselves; that it is their passions which keep them apart from God;
that He comes to destroy these, and give them His grace, so as to make of
them all one Holy Church; that He comes to bring back into this Church the
heathen and Jews; that He comes to destroy the idols of the former and the
superstition of the latter. To this all men are opposed, not only from the
natural opposition of lust; but, above all, the kings of the earth, as had
been foretold, join together to destroy this religion at its birth. (Proph.:
Quare fremuerunt gentes... reges terrae... adversus Christum.)[176]

All that is great on earth is united together; the learned, the wise, the
kings. The first write; the second condemn; the last kill. And
notwithstanding all these oppositions, these men, simple and weak, resist
all these powers, subdue even these kings, the