{"collection":"chr","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/chr/ecf/105/1050323.htm","path":"chr/ecf/105/1050323.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/chr/ecf/105/1050323.htm","text":"Chapter 76 [LXIV.]\u2014John of Constantinople.\nHe quotes also John, bishop of Constantinople, as saying \u201cthat sin is not a substance, but a wicked act.\u201d Who denies this? \u201cAnd because it is not natural, therefore the law was given against it, and because it proceeds from the liberty of our will.\u201d 1324 Who, too, denies this? However, the present question concerns our human nature in its corrupted state; it is a further question also concerning that grace of God whereby our nature is healed by the great Physician, Christ, whose remedy it would not need if it were only whole. And yet your author defends it as capable of not sinning, as if it were sound, or as if its freedom of will were self-sufficient.\nCompare Chrysostom\u2019s Homily on Eph. ii. 3.","title":"Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, Vol. V: A Treatise on Nat...","type":"page"}