Father Noel Alexandre's Literal Commentary on 1 Peter 1:3-9

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 Translated by Qwen. 1 Pet 1:3–4: The Blessing of Regeneration "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to His great mercy has regenerated us unto a living hope, through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead, unto an inheritance incorruptible, undefiled, and unfading, reserved in heaven for you." We ought to give immortal thanks to God, to offer Him continually the sacrifice of praise, on account of His infinite goodness toward His elect. It belongs to the Eternal Father to choose the members of His Son, the adopted children who are co-heirs with the Only-Begotten. Let us seek no other reason for this election than mercy, whose greatness cannot be worthily expressed in human words. He who spared not His own Son, but delivered Him up for us all. Us, unworthy sinners, His enemies, deserving of eternal punishments, He has regenerated through Baptism; and, the oldness which we had contracted from Adam in our first birth being abolished, He ...
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Denis the Carthusian's Commentary on 2 Corinthians 5:20-6:2

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2 Cor 5:20 “For Christ”, that is, for the love and glory of Christ, we carry out an embassy, that is, we exercise a mission, because we have been sent by God to announce the Gospel of Christ, as though God Himself were exhorting the hearts of the hearers through us. Through us, that is, through our preaching; for He Himself speaks through us.

We beseech for Christ, that is, in the place, stead, or for the love of Christ: be reconciled to God, that is, cleanse yourselves from your sins, correct your lives, and strive to please God.

2 Cor 5:21 Him who knew no sin, by approval or by experience—namely, Christ—the Father made for us, that is, for our redemption, sin, that is, a victim for sin. For here sin is taken for a sin-offering, as also in Hosea, where it is said: “They shall eat the sins of my people.” Or thus: Him who knew no sin, for us He made sin, that is, He made Him guilty. For sin—especially original sin—was the occasion of the Incarnation and Passion of Christ, and thus in a certain way it made Him man.

That we might become the justice (righteousness) of God, that is, justified by God, in Him, that is, in the merit of Christ.

With the mysteries of the New Testament now commended, all are invited to perfection, as the Apostle says: 2 Cor 6:1 “Helping”—that is, by word, by work, and by prayer—your weakness. Or helping, that is, cooperating with Christ in your conversion, we exhort you not to receive the grace of God in vain, that is, without fruit and perseverance, the habitual and sanctifying grace which makes one pleasing to God, which you receive in Baptism or in the sacrament of Penance.

For the end of grace is the attainment of glory. Therefore, he receives the grace of God in vain who, by living well through it, does not acquire eternal beatitude. For it is better to have been ignorant of the way of justice than, after knowing it, to turn back again. In a similar way, in a certain sense it is better not to have received grace than, having received it, to have lost it.

But that God is ready to give grace is proved, for the Lord says through Isaiah: 2 Cor 6:2 “In an acceptable time”, that is, in a fitting and suitable time—especially of the New Law and of grace—I have heard you, that is, I have heard one earnestly praying for any matter salutary for you. For everyone who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it shall be opened.

And “in the day of salvation”, that is, in the time of human deliverance brought about through Christ, I have helped you, by giving you supernatural help of grace and of virtues, as the Psalm says: “My help is from the Lord,” and “Unless the Lord had helped me, my soul would almost have dwelt in hell.”

Finally, explaining and applying the aforesaid authority of Isaiah to the time of Christ, he says: “Behold, now is the acceptable time,” that is, the time pleasing and suitable for meriting grace, because now the merit of the Lord’s Passion works most powerfully. “Behold, now is the day of salvation,” that is, the time of salvation brought about by Christ. Hence it is read in the Acts: “All the prophets from Samuel and afterwards announced these days.”

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