Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>If the Platonists prefer to call these angels gods rather than\r\ndemons, and to reckon them with those whom Plato, their\r\nfounder and master, maintains were created by the supreme\r\nGod,<a id=\"FNanchor_357_357\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_357_357\">[357]</a> they are welcome to do so, for I will not spend strength\r\nin fighting about words. For if they say that these beings\r\nare immortal, and yet created by the supreme God, blessed\r\nbut by cleaving to their Creator and not by their own power,\r\nthey say what we say, whatever name they call these beings\r\nby. And that this is the opinion either of all or the best of<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_379\">[Pg 379]</a></span>\r\nthe Platonists can be ascertained by their writings. And regarding\r\nthe name itself, if they see fit to call such blessed and\r\nimmortal creatures gods, this need not give rise to any serious\r\ndiscussion between us, since in our own Scriptures we read,\r\n\"The God of gods, the Lord hath spoken;\"<a id=\"FNanchor_358_358\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_358_358\">[358]</a> and again, \"Confess\r\nto the God of gods;\"<a id=\"FNanchor_359_359\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_359_359\">[359]</a> and again, \"He is a great King\r\nabove all gods.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_360_360\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_360_360\">[360]</a> And where it is said, \"He is to be feared\r\nabove all gods,\" the reason is forthwith added, for it follows,\r\n\"for all the gods of the nations are idols, but the Lord made\r\nthe heavens.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_361_361\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_361_361\">[361]</a> He said, \"above all gods,\" but added, \"of the\r\nnations;\" that is to say, above all those whom the nations\r\ncount gods, in other words, demons. By them He is to be\r\nfeared with that terror in which they cried to the Lord, \"Hast\r\nThou come to destroy us?\" But where it is said, \"the God of\r\ngods,\" it cannot be understood as the god of the demons; and\r\nfar be it from us to say that \"great King above all gods\"\r\nmeans \"great King above all demons.\" But the same Scripture\r\nalso calls men who belong to God's people \"gods:\" \"I have said,\r\nYe are gods, and all of you children of the Most High.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_362_362\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_362_362\">[362]</a> Accordingly,\r\nwhen God is styled God of gods, this may be understood\r\nof these gods; and so, too, when He is styled a great\r\nKing above all gods.</p>","headings":["THE WORKS OF AURELIUS AUGUSTINE,","BOOK NINTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45304-paragraph-674"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"3681042156ff4aa2b898c1e5947623137af248fa7e23e24b958e9cd64d79509d","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_357_357","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_357_357","source_ebook":45304,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_357_357\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_357_357\"><span class=\"label\">[357]</span></a> <i>Timæus.</i></p></div>","source_sha256":"d89e9a2b80bb59f394f0fb1bf313b39fab162f06af6642166d62c5912c1195f1","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45304/pg45304-images.html#Footnote_357_357","text_sha256":"60002fccc1b9428da858596611e63ddcceaa0a4c0fa993711a8eabaf7eed7a2a","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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