Understanding What Is Given

Vobis datum est nosse mysteria regni coelorum, illis autem non est datum. Audiant Pelagiani, qui sine gratia Dei quidquam se habere jactitant, quoniam nihil sine dono Dei percipitur. Unde Apostolus: Quid habes quod non accepisti? Propterea nemo praesumat de se, quia nihil habet ex se, nisi sola delicta. Accedat igitur alacer, fide devotus, gratia firmus in charitate, ut audiat cum apostolis in navi, ut intelligat quod datum est illis, quia quod illis et datum est, omnibus est repromissum. Magnum igitur est quod illis datum est nosse, quia haec est vita aeterna, ut cognoscant te solum verum Deum, et, quem misisti, Jesum Christum. Cognitio quippe haec magnum est sacramentum, unde dictum est: Regnum Dei intra vos est. Et quia hoc vere crediderant apostoli, habebant non ex se, sed ex dono Dei jam illud in quo est vita aeterna. Sanctus Paschasius Radbertus Corbeiensis, Expositio In Evangelium Matthaei, Lib VII Cap XIII Source: Migne PL 120.485b

To you it has been given to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, to them it has not been given. 1 Let the Pelagians hear, they who without the grace of God boast that they have something in themselves, because nothing is received without the giving of God. Whence the Apostle says: 'What do you have that you have not received?' 2 Therefore let no one presume about himself, because from himself he has nothing, unless only faults. So let him come cheerfully, devout in faith, firm in charity by grace, that he hear with the Apostles in the boat, that he understand what is given to them, because what is given to them is promised to all. Great is that which was given to them to know, because this is life eternal, 'that they know you, the only true God, and Him whom you sent, Jesus Christ.' 3 This knowledge is a great mystery, whence it is said: 'The kingdom of God is within you.' 4 And that the Apostles truly believed this, they had not from themselves, but from the gift of God, that in which already is life eternal. Saint Paschasius Radbertus, Commentary On The Gospel of Saint Matthew, Book 7, Chap 13 1 Mt 13.11 2 1 Cor 4.7 3 Jn 17.3 4 Lk 17.21