Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>But we must further make the admission, that even when\r\nthese affections are well regulated, and according to God's\r\nwill, they are peculiar to this life, not to that future life we\r\nlook for, and that often we yield to them against our will.\r\nAnd thus sometimes we weep in spite of ourselves, being\r\ncarried beyond ourselves, not indeed by culpable desire, but\r\nby praiseworthy charity. In us, therefore, these affections\r\narise from human infirmity; but it was not so with the Lord\r\nJesus, for even His infirmity was the consequence of His\r\npower. But so long as we wear the infirmity of this life, we\r\nare rather worse men than better if we have none of these\r\nemotions at all. For the apostle vituperated and abominated\r\nsome who, as he said, were \"without natural affection.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_76_76\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_76_76\">[76]</a>\r\nThe sacred Psalmist also found fault with those of whom he\r\nsaid, \"I looked for some to lament with me, and there was\r\nnone.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_77_77\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_77_77\">[77]</a> For to be quite free from pain while we are in this\r\nplace of misery is only purchased, as one of this world's\r\nliterati perceived and remarked,<a id=\"FNanchor_78_78\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_78_78\">[78]</a> at the price of blunted sensibilities\r\nboth of mind and body. And therefore that which\r\nthe Greeks call ἀπάθεια, and what the Latins would call, if\r\ntheir language would allow them, \"impassibilitas,\" if it be\r\ntaken to mean an impassibility of spirit and not of body, or,\r\nin other words, a freedom from those emotions which are contrary\r\nto reason and disturb the mind, then it is obviously a\r\ngood and most desirable quality, but it is not one which is\r\nattainable in this life. For the words of the apostle are the\r\nconfession, not of the common herd, but of the eminently\r\npious, just, and holy men: \"If we say we have no sin, we<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_19\">[Pg 19]</a></span>\r\ndeceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_79_79\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_79_79\">[79]</a> When there\r\nshall be no sin in a man, then there shall be this ἀπάθεια.\r\nAt present it is enough if we live without crime; and he\r\nwho thinks he lives without sin puts aside not sin, but\r\npardon. And if that is to be called apathy, where the mind\r\nis the subject of no emotion, then who would not consider\r\nthis insensibility to be worse than all vices? It may, indeed,\r\nreasonably be maintained that the perfect blessedness we\r\nhope for shall be free from all sting of fear or sadness; but\r\nwho that is not quite lost to truth would say that neither\r\nlove nor joy shall be experienced there? But if by apathy a\r\ncondition be meant in which no fear terrifies nor any pain\r\nannoys, we must in this life renounce such a state if we\r\nwould live according to God's will, but may hope to enjoy\r\nit in that blessedness which is promised as our eternal condition.</p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK FOURTEENTH.[1]","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-47"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"c24d061f3cb5dd6e63167f8997986df359b1fc6028d53172afa0f5f6bf83485c","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_78_78","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_78_78","source_ebook":45305,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_78_78\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_78_78\"><span class=\"label\">[78]</span></a> Crantor, an Academic philosopher quoted by Cicero, <i>Tusc. Quæst.</i> iii. 6.</p></div>","source_sha256":"7e0ced9e70512f3cf050b53c9d548e36b70d468d875153869f95d8aff5bbb530","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45305/pg45305-images.html#Footnote_78_78","text_sha256":"17a1b9ae0c2a64ccd6168a9f313339f0491ef116396aabd4b478c57aae37887f","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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