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Rh enter in and dwel there: and * the last of that man be made worse then the first. So shal it be also to this wicked Generation.

As he was yet speaking to the multitudes, * behold his mother and his brethren stood without, seeking to speake to him. And one said unto him: Behold thy mother and thy brethren stand without, seeking thee. But he answering him that told him, said: ″ Who is my mother, and who are my brethren? And stretching forth his hand upon his Disciples, he said: Behold my mother and my brethren. For whosoever shal doe the wil of my Father, that is in Heaven: he is my brother, and sister, and mother. ✠

ANNOTATIONS C. XII.

24. In Beelzebub.) The like blasphemie against the Holy Ghost is, to attribute the miracles done by Saints either dead or alive, to the Divel.

30. Not with me.) They that are indifferent to al religions, commonly and fitly caled Neuters, joyning them selves to neither part, let them marke these words wel, and they shal see, that Christ accounted al them to be against him & his Church, that are not planly and flatly with him and it.

30. Gathereth not with me.) He speaketh not only of his owne Person, but of al to whom he hath committed the government of his Church, and specially of the chiefe pastours succeeding Peter in the government of the whole; as S. Hierome writing to Damasus Pope of Rome, applieth these words unto him, saying of al Heretikes: He that gathereth not with thee, scattereth: that is to say, He that is not with Christ, is with Antichrist.

31. The blasphemie of the Spirit.) He meaneth not that there is any sinne so great, which God wil not forgive, or whereof a man may not repent in this life, as some Heretikes at this day affirme: but that some heinous sinnes (as namely this blasphemie of the Jewes against the evident workes of the Holy Ghost, and likewise Archeheretikes who wilfully resist the known truth & workes of the Holy Ghost in Gods Church) are hardly forgiven, & seldom have such men grace to repent. Otherwise among al the sinnes against the Holy Ghost (which are commonly reckned six) one only shal never be forgiven, that is, dying without repentance wilfully, called Final impenitence; which sinne he committeth that dieth with contempt of the Sacrament of Penance, obstinatly refusing absolution, by the Churches ministerie: as S. Augustine plainly declareth in these wordes: Whosoever he be that beleeveth not mans sinnes to be remitted in Gods Church, and therfore despiseth the bountifulnes of God in so mighty a work, if he in that obstinat mind continue til his lives end, he is guilty of sinne against the Holy Ghost, in which Holy Ghost Christ remitteth sinnes. ''Enchir. 83. Ep. 50. in fine.''

32. Sonne of man.) The Jewes in their wordes sinned against the Sonne of man, when they reprehended those things which he did as a man, to wit, caling him a glutton, a great drinker of wine, a frend of the Publicans, a Samaritane, and taking offense because he kept company with sinnes, brake the Sabboth, and such like: and this sinne might more easely be forgiven them, because they judged of him as they would have don, of any other man: but they sinned and blasphemed against the Holy Ghost (called here the finger of God whereby he wrought miracles) when of malice they attributed the evident workes of God in casting out Divels, to the Divel himself: & this sinne shal not be remitted, because it shal hardly be remitted, as we see by the plague of their posteritie until this day.

32. Nor in the world to come.) S. Augustine & other Holy Doctours gather hereupon, that some sinnes may be remitted in the next life, & consequently prove Purgatorie thereby. De Civit. Dei li. 21, c. 13. D. Gregor. Dial. li. 4. c. 39.

36. Idle word.) If of every idle word we must make account before God in judgement, and yet shal not for every such word be damned everlastingly: then there must needs be some temporal punishment in the next life. Rh