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Peter Abelard wrote his Commentary on the Epistle to the Romans in the mid-twelfth century, toward the end of his life, while teaching in Paris. Filled with questions on topics such as redemption, grace, and original sin, the commentary demonstrates the growing interest of urban scholars in applying dialectic to the study of Sacred Scripture. Abelard’s analysis of some of these topics contributed...

praiseworthy from among all his creatures through all the successions of time. Forever, as if those successions of time were named by the term “following.”138 Amen, that is, “it is true”; for this is an adverb, sometimes of affirming, sometimes of desiring. [1:26] Therefore, he handed them over, because nevertheless (73) they detracted from the divine excellence. It is not enough to say this once in order to deter the hearer all the more from such things. He calls their pollutions of unnatural desire
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