Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Yet though we may sometimes avail ourselves of these\r\nprecise proprieties of language, we are not to be always\r\nbridled by them; and when we read those writers against\r\nwhose authority it is unlawful to reclaim, we must accept\r\nthe meanings above mentioned in passages where a right\r\nsense can be educed by no other interpretation, as in those\r\ninstances we adduced partly from the prophet, partly from\r\nthe Gospel. For who does not know that the wicked exult\r\nwith joy? Yet \"there is no <i>contentment</i> for the wicked,\r\nsaith the Lord.\" And how so, unless because contentment,\r\nwhen the word is used in its proper and distinctive significance,\r\nmeans something different from joy? In like manner,<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_14\">[Pg 14]</a></span>\r\nwho would deny that it were wrong to enjoin upon men that\r\nwhatever they desire others to do to them they should themselves\r\ndo to others, lest they should mutually please one\r\nanother by shameful and illicit pleasure? And yet the precept,\r\n\"Whatsoever ye <i>would</i> that men should do unto you, do\r\nye even so to them,\" is very wholesome and just. And how is\r\nthis, unless because the will is in this place used strictly, and\r\nsignifies that will which cannot have evil for its object? But\r\nordinary phraseology would not have allowed the saying, \"Be\r\nunwilling to make any manner of lie,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_42_42\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_42_42\">[42]</a> had there not been\r\nalso an evil will, whose wickedness separates it from that\r\nwhich the angels celebrated, \"Peace on earth, of good will to\r\nmen.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_43_43\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_43_43\">[43]</a> For \"good\" is superfluous if there is no other\r\nkind of will but good will. And why should the apostle have\r\nmentioned it among the praises of charity as a great thing,\r\nthat \"it rejoices not in iniquity,\" unless because wickedness\r\ndoes so rejoice? For even with secular writers these words\r\nare used indifferently. For Cicero, that most fertile of\r\norators, says, \"I desire, conscript fathers, to be merciful.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_44_44\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_44_44\">[44]</a>\r\nAnd who would be so pedantic as to say that he should have\r\nsaid \"I will\" rather than \"I desire,\" because the word is used\r\nin a good connection? Again, in Terence, the profligate\r\nyouth, burning with wild lust, says, \"I will nothing else than\r\nPhilumena.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_45_45\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_45_45\">[45]</a> That this \"will\" was lust is sufficiently indicated\r\nby the answer of his old servant which is there introduced:\r\n\"How much better were it to try and banish that love\r\nfrom your heart, than to speak so as uselessly to inflame your\r\npassion still more!\" And that contentment was used by secular\r\nwriters in a bad sense, that verse of Virgil testifies, in which\r\nhe most succinctly comprehends these four perturbations,—</p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK FOURTEENTH.[1]","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-41"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"999cff009b09e8b593977fda2ef2bd91a2428feeb9cc51cb73278d399fd95f04","edition_title":"The City of God, Volume II","edition_translators":["Marcus Dods","George Wilson (Books XVII-XVIII)"],"edition_year":1871,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg45305-Footnote_44_44","license_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/policy/license.html","public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"original-editor-translator-note","review_required":["work and recension attribution","original-work chronology","Bible reference numbering and citation kind","English edition rights and attribution"],"review_status":"needs_review","rights_evidence":"Provider catalog reports public domain in the USA. Original transcription title leaves state T. & T. Clark, Edinburgh, 1871; printed translator allocation retained. Gutenberg credits Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries without an exact scan identifier. Full provider license preserved with acquired original; republication and per-work metadata remain unreviewed.","source_anchor":"Footnote_44_44","source_ebook":45305,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_44_44\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_44_44\"><span class=\"label\">[44]</span></a> <i>Cat.</i> i. 2.</p></div>","source_sha256":"7e0ced9e70512f3cf050b53c9d548e36b70d468d875153869f95d8aff5bbb530","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45305/pg45305-images.html#Footnote_44_44","text_sha256":"8165ae7b13cae854c95282ad2a0a0262c1d9e83cf0a3e6d8be68accf4e16996d","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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