Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>You proclaim the Father and His Son, whom you call the\r\nFather's intellect or mind, and between these a third, by whom\r\nwe suppose you mean the Holy Spirit, and in your own fashion\r\nyou call these three Gods. In this, though your expressions\r\nare inaccurate, you do in some sort, and as through a veil, see\r\nwhat we should strive towards; but the incarnation of the\r\nunchangeable Son of God, whereby we are saved, and are\r\nenabled to reach the things we believe, or in part understand,\r\nthis is what you refuse to recognise. You see in a fashion,\r\nalthough at a distance, although with filmy eye, the country\r\nin which we should abide; but the way to it you know not.\r\nYet you believe in grace, for you say it is granted to few to\r\nreach God by virtue of intelligence. For you do not say, \"Few\r\nhave thought fit or have wished,\" but, \"It has been granted\r\nto few,\"—distinctly acknowledging God's grace, not man's\r\nsufficiency. You also use this word more expressly, when, in<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_424\">[Pg 424]</a></span>\r\naccordance with the opinion of Plato, you make no doubt that\r\nin this life a man cannot by any means attain to perfect\r\nwisdom, but that whatever is lacking is in the future life\r\nmade up to those who live intellectually, by God's providence\r\nand grace. Oh, had you but recognised the grace of God in\r\nJesus Christ our Lord, and that very incarnation of His,\r\nwherein He assumed a human soul and body, you might\r\nhave seemed the brightest example of grace!<a id=\"FNanchor_426_426\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_426_426\">[426]</a> But what am\r\nI doing? I know it is useless to speak to a dead man,—useless,\r\nat least, so far as regards you, but perhaps not in\r\nvain for those who esteem you highly, and love you on\r\naccount of their love of wisdom or curiosity about those arts\r\nwhich you ought not to have learned; and these persons I\r\naddress in your name. The grace of God could not have\r\nbeen more graciously commended to us than thus, that the\r\nonly Son of God, remaining unchangeable in Himself, should\r\nassume humanity, and should give us the hope of His love,\r\nby means of the mediation of a human nature, through which\r\nwe, from the condition of men, might come to Him who was so\r\nfar off,—the immortal from the mortal; the unchangeable from\r\nthe changeable; the just from the unjust; the blessed from\r\nthe wretched. And, as He had given us a natural instinct to\r\ndesire blessedness and immortality, He Himself continuing\r\nto be blessed, but assuming mortality, by enduring what we\r\nfear, taught us to despise it, that what we long for He might\r\nbestow upon us.</p>","headings":["THE WORKS OF AURELIUS AUGUSTINE,","BOOK TENTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45304-paragraph-741"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"9a7e5738b3df1980d5887106fe003440bbf7f0f4583153f0fdac0b84da717f4d","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_426_426","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_426_426","source_ebook":45304,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_426_426\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_426_426\"><span class=\"label\">[426]</span></a> According to another reading, \"You might have seen it to be,\" etc.</p></div>","source_sha256":"d89e9a2b80bb59f394f0fb1bf313b39fab162f06af6642166d62c5912c1195f1","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45304/pg45304-images.html#Footnote_426_426","text_sha256":"e2b9e73c57de988238b8f8925c9affa49721d1205591cf349ff67cd31145bcd0","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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