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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...

that Tertullian13 refers to the Gnostic systems as “sacramenta haereticarum idearum,” while St. Augustine repeatedly applies the term to the external worship of God and to sacrifice in general.14 It was reserved for the Schoolmen, notably Peter Lombard and St. Thomas, to define the term Sacrament, and to restrict its use to certain rites.15 .—Generally speaking, a Sacrament is, as we have seen, “a symbol of a sacred and mysterious thing.”
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