35. Ego, inquit, lux in saeculum veni, ut omnis qui crediderit in me, non maneat in tenebris
Chapter 49.—From the Epistle to Titus.
Then again he writes to Titus as follows: “Looking for that blessed hope, and the glorious appearing of the great God and our Saviour Jesus Christ; who gave himself for us, that He might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto Himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.”166 Tit. ii. 13, 14. And to the like effect in another passage: “But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared, not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost; which He shed on us abundantly through Jesus Christ our Saviour; that, being justified by His grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.”167 Tit. iii. 3–7.
49. Ad Titum etiam: Exspectantes, inquit, illam beatam spem et manifestationem gloriae magni Dei, et salvatoris nostri Jesu Christi, qui dedit semetipsum pro nobis, ut nos redimeret ab omni iniquitate, et mundaret nos sibi populum abundantem, aemulatorem bonorum operum (Tit. II, 13, 14). Et alio loco: Cum autem benignitas et humanitas illuxit Salvatoris Dei nostri, non ex operibus justitiae, quae nos fecimus, sed secundum suam misericordiam salvos nos fecit per lavacrum regenerationis et renovationis Spiritus sancti, quem 0137 ditissime effudit super nos per Jesum Christum salvatorem nostrum, ut justificati ipsius gratia haeredes efficiamur secundum spem vitae aeternae (Tit. III, 4).