Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Plotinus, whose memory is quite recent,<a id=\"FNanchor_343_343\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_343_343\">[343]</a> enjoys the reputation\r\nof having understood Plato better than any other of his\r\ndisciples. In speaking of human souls, he says, \"The Father\r\nin compassion made their bonds mortal;\"<a id=\"FNanchor_344_344\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_344_344\">[344]</a> that is to say, he<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_365\">[Pg 365]</a></span>\r\nconsidered it due to the Father's mercy that men, having a\r\nmortal body, should not be for ever confined in the misery of\r\nthis life. But of this mercy the demons have been judged\r\nunworthy, and they have received, in conjunction with a soul\r\nsubject to passions, a body not mortal like man's, but eternal.\r\nFor they should have been happier than men if they had, like\r\nmen, had a mortal body, and, like the gods, a blessed soul.\r\nAnd they should have been equal to men, if in conjunction\r\nwith a miserable soul they had at least received, like men, a\r\nmortal body, so that death might have freed them from\r\ntrouble, if, at least, they should have attained some degree\r\nof piety. But, as it is, they are not only no happier than men,\r\nhaving, like them, a miserable soul, they are also more wretched,\r\nbeing eternally bound to the body; for he does not leave us\r\nto infer that by some progress in wisdom and piety they can\r\nbecome gods, but expressly says that they are demons for ever.</p>","headings":["THE WORKS OF AURELIUS AUGUSTINE,","BOOK NINTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45304-paragraph-644"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"cf0f62e391a94b1f21cfb908b5fc9e10760740c0fbbfc1750a25924e7b728e0c","edition_title":"The City of God, Volume I","edition_translators":["Marcus Dods","George Wilson (Book IV)","J. J. Smith (Books V-VIII)"],"edition_year":1871,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg45304-Footnote_343_343","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_343_343","source_ebook":45304,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_343_343\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_343_343\"><span class=\"label\">[343]</span></a> Plotinus died in 270 <span class=\"smcap\">a.d.</span> For his relation to Plato, see Augustine's <i>Contra\r\nAcad.</i> iii. 41.</p></div>","source_sha256":"d89e9a2b80bb59f394f0fb1bf313b39fab162f06af6642166d62c5912c1195f1","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45304/pg45304-images.html#Footnote_343_343","text_sha256":"a64ece58cb2467bdd533e731051397fc658e28c3ae78cce84fe332936abd07b9","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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