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32 bate eternal fire. Thus, the Psalmist [5:6] says: "Thou hatest all who work iniquity." Hence, because the pride of the reprobate, in proportion as they hate God, always ascends after final impenitence, they are not of Christ's body. For St. Augustine says: Sermon on the Lord's Words, 53 [Migne's ed., 354, vol. 39: 1568]: "A lowly head and a proud member! Nay. He who loves pride does not wish to be of the body of Christ the head." And again, Sermon 50 [Migne's ed., 138, vol. 38: 765], he says: "Christ spoke truly in regard to certain shepherds, for he holds all good shepherds in himself, when he said: "I am the chief Shepherd and all ye are one in me.' But the reprobate, who is a member of the devil, is not duly joined together in the same structure with his head." Augustine also, de doct. Christi, 3: 32 [Nic. Fathers, 2: 569], after he shows that Christ and his body, which is the church, are one person, censures Tychonius, who in his second rule calls the whole human family the twofold—bipartitum—body of the Lord. This, he says, "was no proper name to apply to the body of Christ. That in truth is not the Lord's body that will not be with him through eternity. Tychonius ought