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{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>For no sooner do we begin to live in this dying body, than\r\nwe begin to move ceaselessly towards death.<a id=\"FNanchor_585_585\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_585_585\">[585]</a> For in the<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_530\">[Pg 530]</a></span>\r\nwhole course of this life (if life we must call it) its mutability\r\ntends towards death. Certainly there is no one who is not\r\nnearer it this year than last year, and to-morrow than to-day,\r\nand to-day than yesterday, and a short while hence than now,\r\nand now than a short while ago. For whatever time we live\r\nis deducted from our whole term of life, and that which\r\nremains is daily becoming less and less; so that our whole\r\nlife is nothing but a race towards death, in which no one is\r\nallowed to stand still for a little space, or to go somewhat\r\nmore slowly, but all are driven forwards with an impartial\r\nmovement, and with equal rapidity. For he whose life is short\r\nspends a day no more swiftly than he whose life is longer.\r\nBut while the equal moments are impartially snatched from\r\nboth, the one has a nearer and the other a more remote goal\r\nto reach with this their equal speed. It is one thing to make\r\na longer journey, and another to walk more slowly. He,\r\ntherefore, who spends longer time on his way to death does\r\nnot proceed at a more leisurely pace, but goes over more\r\nground. Further, if every man begins to die, that is, is in\r\ndeath, as soon as death has begun to show itself in him (by\r\ntaking away life, to wit; for when life is all taken away, the\r\nman will be then not in death, but after death), then he begins\r\nto die so soon as he begins to live. For what else is going\r\non in all his days, hours, and moments, until this slow-working\r\ndeath is fully consummated? And then comes the time\r\n<i>after death</i>, instead of that in which life was being withdrawn,\r\nand which we called being <i>in death</i>. Man, then, is never in\r\nlife from the moment he dwells in this dying rather than\r\nliving body,—if, at least, he cannot be in life and death at\r\nonce. Or rather, shall we say, he is in both?—in life,\r\nnamely, which he lives till all is consumed; but in death\r\nalso, which he dies as his life is consumed? For if he is not\r\nin life, what is it which is consumed till all be gone? And\r\nif he is not in death, what is this consumption itself? For\r\nwhen the whole of life has been consumed, the expression\r\n\"after death\" would be meaningless, had that consumption\r\nnot been death. And if, when it has all been consumed, a\r\nman is not in death but after death, when is he in death,\r\nunless when life is being consumed away?</p>","headings":["THE WORKS OF AURELIUS AUGUSTINE,","BOOK THIRTEENTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45304-paragraph-912"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"082deb28ba2a8050d1ec391d128b79a3a55a542060dda6624f3c84a50daa0221","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_585_585","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_585_585","source_ebook":45304,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_585_585\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_585_585\"><span class=\"label\">[585]</span></a> Much of this paradoxical statement about death is taken from Seneca. See,\r\namong other places, his epistle on the premeditation of future dangers, the\r\npassage beginning, \"Quotidie morimur, quotidie enim demitur aliqua pars\r\nvitæ.\"</p></div>","source_sha256":"d89e9a2b80bb59f394f0fb1bf313b39fab162f06af6642166d62c5912c1195f1","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45304/pg45304-images.html#Footnote_585_585","text_sha256":"81edcc336975027e312af5afe94ab8377aef0d86d830ada491f36168ed800b50","verified":false,"work_id":null}references: [] | work_id: | origin: existing-private-derived-record | source: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45304/pg45304-images.html#Footnote_585_585