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{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>And since these things are so, those spirits whom we call\r\nangels were never at any time or in any way darkness, but, as\r\nsoon as they were made, were made light; yet they were not\r\nso created in order that they might exist and live in any way\r\nwhatever, but were enlightened that they might live wisely\r\nand blessedly. Some of them, having turned away from this\r\nlight, have not won this wise and blessed life, which is certainly\r\neternal, and accompanied with the sure confidence of its\r\neternity; but they have still the life of reason, though darkened\r\nwith folly, and this they cannot lose, even if they would.\r\nBut who can determine to what extent they were partakers\r\nof that wisdom before they fell? And how shall we say that\r\nthey participated in it equally with those who through it are\r\ntruly and fully blessed, resting in a true certainty of eternal\r\nfelicity? For if they had equally participated in this true\r\nknowledge, then the evil angels would have remained eternally\r\nblessed equally with the good, because they were equally expectant\r\nof it. For, though a life be never so long, it cannot\r\nbe truly called eternal if it is destined to have an end; for\r\nit is called life inasmuch as it is lived, but eternal because it\r\nhas no end. Wherefore, although everything eternal is not\r\ntherefore blessed (for hell-fire is eternal), yet if no life can be<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_451\">[Pg 451]</a></span>\r\ntruly and perfectly blessed except it be eternal, the life of\r\nthese angels was not blessed, for it was doomed to end, and\r\ntherefore not eternal, whether they knew it or not. In the\r\none case fear, in the other ignorance, prevented them from\r\nbeing blessed. And even if their ignorance was not so great\r\nas to breed in them a wholly false expectation, but left them\r\nwavering in uncertainty whether their good would be eternal\r\nor would some time terminate, this very doubt concerning so\r\ngrand a destiny was incompatible with the plenitude of\r\nblessedness which we believe the holy angels enjoyed. For\r\nwe do not so narrow and restrict the application of the term\r\n\"blessedness\" as to apply it to God only,<a id=\"FNanchor_467_467\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_467_467\">[467]</a> though doubtless\r\nHe is so truly blessed that greater blessedness cannot be; and,\r\nin comparison of His blessedness, what is that of the angels,\r\nthough, according to their capacity, they be perfectly blessed?</p>","headings":["THE WORKS OF AURELIUS AUGUSTINE,","BOOK ELEVENTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45304-paragraph-778"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"e9d11cf39920965ee7b884e3c20d39a23cec68888d88a9e274fd1780d771959f","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_467_467","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_467_467","source_ebook":45304,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_467_467\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_467_467\"><span class=\"label\">[467]</span></a> Vives remarks that the ancients defined blessedness as an absolutely perfect\r\nstate in all good, peculiar to God. Perhaps Augustine had a reminiscence of\r\nthe remarkable discussion in the <i>Tusc. Disp.</i> lib. v., and the definition \"Neque\r\nulla alia huic verbo, quum beatum dicimus, subjecta notio est, nisi, secretis\r\nmalis omnibus, cumulata bonorum complexio.\"</p></div>","source_sha256":"d89e9a2b80bb59f394f0fb1bf313b39fab162f06af6642166d62c5912c1195f1","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45304/pg45304-images.html#Footnote_467_467","text_sha256":"b1c070d0f1b5a7f85a6e12c3ae3ac586dd6b1803a039e044afb68e936b619ca5","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_467_467