d. This
accords with His own words:

To every one who has, shall be given, that he may abound, and from him
who has not, shall even what he has be taken away (Mt 13:12; 25:29; Mk
4:25; Lu 8:18; 19:26).

[5] Fifth: _Since good and evil in anyone must be separated and in such a
person cannot be, he is destroyed in all that is truly human._ As was
shown earlier, everyone has what is truly human from rationality, in that
he can see and know what is true and good if he wishes, and from liberty,
enabling him to will, think, speak and do it. But this liberty has been
destroyed along with their rationality in those who have commingled good
and evil in themselves, for they cannot from good see evil, nor from evil
recognize good; the two make one in them. Hence they no longer possess
rationality in any efficacy or power, nor any liberty. For this reason
they are like the sheerest wild fantasies, as we said above, and no
longer look like men but like bones covered with skin, and therefore when
mentioned are referred to not as "he" or "she" but "it." Such is the lot
of those who have commingled sacred and profane in the manner we have
described. There are several kinds of profanation which are not of this
character, however; of them in a later section.

228. No one can profane holy things in the way described who is ignorant
of them. For one who is ignorant of them cannot acknowledge them and then
deny them. Those, therefore, who are outside Christendom and know nothing
of the Lord or of redemption and salvation at His hands do not profane
the holiness of this in not accepting it or even by speaking against it.
The Jews do not profane its sanctity, for from infancy they have no
desire to receive and acknowledge it. It would be otherwise if they
received and acknowledged it and afterwards denied it. This seldom
occurs, however; for many among them acknowledge it outwardly but deny it
inwardly and are like hypocrites. But those who first accept and
acknowledge and later lapse and deny, are the ones who profane holy
things by mingling them with profane.

[2] It is beside the point here that holy things are accepted and
acknowledged in infancy and childhood, as they are by every Christian.
For what pertains to faith and charity is not accepted and acknowledged
at that age from any rationality and liberty, that is, in the
understanding from the will, but only by the memory and from confidence
in the teacher; and if the life is in ac