Belief And Judgement

Non enim misit Deus Filium suum in mundum, ut iudicet mundum, sed ut salvetur mundus per ipsum. Ergo quantum in medico est, sanare venit aegrotum. Ipse se interimit, qui praecepta medici observare non vult. Venit Salvator ad mundum: quare Salvator dictus est mundi, nisi ut salvet mundum, non ut iudicet mundum? Salvari non vis ab ipso; ex te iudicaberis. Et quid dicam, iudicaberis? Vide quid ait: Qui credit in eum, non iudicatur; qui autem non credit: quid dicturum speras nisi, iudicatur? iam, inquit, iudicatus est. Nondum apparuit iudicium, sed iam factum est iudicium. Novit enim Dominus qui sunt eius: novit qui permaneant ad coronam, qui permaneant ad flammam; novit in area sua triticum, novit paleam; novit segetem, novit zizania. Iam iudicatus est qui non credit. Quare iudicatus? Quia non credidit in nomine unigeniti Filii Dei. Sanctus Augustinus Hipponensi, In Evangelium Ionannis, Tractatus XII Source: Migne PL 35.1490

God did not send His Son into the world, that He judge the world, but that He save the world through Him. 1 Therefore as much as He is a physician, He comes to heal the sick. He kills himself who does not wish to observe the teachings of the physician. The Saviour comes into the world. Why is he called the Saviour of the world unless He shall save the world and not condemn it? You who do not wish to be saved by Him, you shall be condemned by Him. And why do I say you shall be condemned? See what is said: 'He who believes in Him shall not be condemned. He who does not believe...' what do you expect shall be said, unless, '...he is condemned.' 2 Now, he says, he has been condemned. The judgement does not yet appear, but now the judgement is made. For the Lord knows who are His. 3 He knows who shall go to the crown, and who to the flame. He knows who are His wheat in the field and who are the straw. He knows the crop and He knows the weed. Now he has been condemned who does not believe. Why judged so? 'Because he has not believed in the name of the Only Begotten Son of God.' Saint Augustine of Hippo, from Tractate 12 On The Gospel of St John 1 Jam 1.13-15 2 Jn 3.18 3 2 Tim 2.19