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Salvation is not merely an internal transformation, but is manifested in the visible signs in the sacraments, which have their origin in the life of Christ—“outward and visible signs of an inward spiritual grace,” as Augustine famously defined them. The first of Pohle’s four volumes on the sacraments introduces readers, in detail, to sacramental theology. He uses Scripture to define the...

.—“Sacrament” is a word of Latin origin. It is derived from sacrare1 and denotes a thing which produces holiness—a means of sanctification. The concept sacramentum was enriched by the inclusion in it of the Greek μυστήριον, (from μύω, to shut the mouth or eyes), and thus came to denote a thing both sacred and mysterious.2 Such sacred and mysterious things were: (a) venerable objects, as the truths of religion,3
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