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130 THE SECOND MAN VERIFIED IN HISTORY.paschal salutation of the Second Adam, " Go to mybrethren, and say, I ascend to my Father and toyour Father, to my God and to your God." Andthe divine virtue of hope well corresponds to thisquality, the effects of which in a state of trial andconflict are to so great a degree future and unseen.It seems, moreover, to be as a special link and tiebetween the virtue which purifies the intellect,and that which corrects the will and makes itobedient. Thus through it we pass on to thefourth quality of Sanctification, which is the completionof the other three and their end, the harmonyof each individual will with the divine will,the work of charity. That divine virtue is thespecial fruit of the passion of Christ, which wasto gather up into one what sin had disunited andtorn away, first from its Author, and then fromthe order by Him created, which was to heal theanimosities thus introduced, and to change theworld from a conflict wherein each sought tobetter himself at the expense of his neighbour,into a community cemented together with mutualaffection. It was with reason, therefore, that S.Augustine would not allow the possession of charity,save in the unity of that one Body whichChrist had created,12 and without charity there isno sanctification.12 Epist. 185. torn. ii. p. 663. " Proinde Ecclesia Catholica sola corpusest Christi, cujus ille caput est, Salvator corporis sui. Extra hoc corpusneminern vivificat Spiritus Sanctus, quia sicut ipse dicit Apostolus:Caritas Dei diffusa est in cordibus nostris per Spiritum Sanctum, qui