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Bernard ponders a question dear to early Scholasticism and the Reformation: How far can the fallen human person cooperate in salvation?

mistaken, the Spirit helps our weakness.4 Indeed, the One who advises me by means of your words, must assist me also through his Spirit, so that I may be able to do as you advise. For it already is due partly to this assistance that I can will what is right, but I cannot do it;5 but I would have no grounds for believing that I would some day manage to do it, were it not that he who has given me to will, shall also enable me to accomplish on account of my good will.”6—“Where, then,” said he, “are
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