Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Now that we have solved, as well as we could, this very<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_514\">[Pg 514]</a></span>\r\ndifficult question about the eternal God creating new things,\r\nwithout any novelty of will, it is easy to see how much better\r\nit is that God was pleased to produce the human race from the\r\none individual whom He created, than if He had originated it\r\nin several men. For as to the other animals, He created some\r\nsolitary, and naturally seeking lonely places,—as the eagles,\r\nkites, lions, wolves, and such like; others gregarious, which\r\nherd together, and prefer to live in company,—as pigeons,\r\nstarlings, stags, and little fallow deer, and the like: but\r\nneither class did He cause to be propagated from individuals,\r\nbut called into being several at once. Man, on the other\r\nhand, whose nature was to be a mean between the angelic and\r\nbestial, He created in such sort, that if he remained in subjection\r\nto His Creator as his rightful Lord, and piously kept His\r\ncommandments, he should pass into the company of the angels,\r\nand obtain, without the intervention of death,<a id=\"FNanchor_560_560\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_560_560\">[560]</a> a blessed and\r\nendless immortality; but if he offended the Lord his God by\r\na proud and disobedient use of his free will, he should become\r\nsubject to death, and live as the beasts do,—the slave\r\nof appetite, and doomed to eternal punishment after death.\r\nAnd therefore God created only one single man, not, certainly,\r\nthat he might be a solitary bereft of all society, but that by\r\nthis means the unity of society and the bond of concord might\r\nbe more effectually commended to him, men being bound\r\ntogether not only by similarity of nature, but by family affection.\r\nAnd indeed He did not even create the woman that\r\nwas to be given him as his wife, as he created the man, but\r\ncreated her out of the man, that the whole human race might\r\nderive from one man.</p>","headings":["THE WORKS OF AURELIUS AUGUSTINE,","BOOK TWELFTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45304-paragraph-879"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"4e7dc93966106c8a63261e6aec35d16cb6bd7a7117e4686a0277b41716ca0373","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_560_560","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_560_560","source_ebook":45304,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_560_560\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_560_560\"><span class=\"label\">[560]</span></a> Coquæus remarks that this is levelled against the Pelagians.</p></div>","source_sha256":"d89e9a2b80bb59f394f0fb1bf313b39fab162f06af6642166d62c5912c1195f1","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45304/pg45304-images.html#Footnote_560_560","text_sha256":"0a14a620213039cd61b3208eb65c6ce37d53aeeab3372d15b985f43ddd939e07","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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