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{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>It is obvious, that in attributing the creation of the other\r\nanimals to those inferior gods who were made by the Supreme,\r\nhe meant it to be understood that the immortal part was\r\ntaken from God Himself, and that these minor creators added\r\nthe mortal part; that is to say, he meant them to be considered\r\nthe creators of our bodies, but not of our souls. But\r\nsince Porphyry maintains that if the soul is to be purified,\r\nall entanglement with a body must be escaped from; and\r\nat the same time agrees with Plato and the Platonists in<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_519\">[Pg 519]</a></span>\r\nthinking that those who have not spent a temperate and\r\nhonourable life return to mortal bodies as their punishment\r\n(to bodies of brutes in Plato's opinion, to human bodies in\r\nPorphyry's); it follows that those whom they would have us\r\nworship as our parents and authors, that they may plausibly\r\ncall them gods, are, after all, but the forgers of our fetters\r\nand chains,—not our creators, but our jailers and turnkeys,\r\nwho lock us up in the most bitter and melancholy house of\r\ncorrection. Let the Platonists, then, either cease menacing\r\nus with our bodies as the punishment of our souls, or preaching\r\nthat we are to worship as gods those whose work upon us\r\nthey exhort us by all means in our power to avoid and escape\r\nfrom. But, indeed, both opinions are quite false. It is\r\nfalse that souls return again to this life to be punished; and\r\nit is false that there is any other creator of anything in\r\nheaven or earth, than He who made the heaven and the earth.\r\nFor if we live in a body only to expiate our sins, how says\r\nPlato in another place, that the world could not have been\r\nthe most beautiful and good, had it not been filled with all\r\nkinds of creatures, mortal and immortal?<a id=\"FNanchor_570_570\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_570_570\">[570]</a> But if our creation\r\neven as mortals be a divine benefit, how is it a punishment\r\nto be restored to a body, that is, to a divine benefit? And if\r\nGod, as Plato continually maintains, embraced in His eternal\r\nintelligence the ideas both of the universe and of all the\r\nanimals, how, then, should He not with His own hand make\r\nthem all? Could He be unwilling to be the constructor of\r\nworks, the idea and plan of which called for His ineffable\r\nand ineffably to be praised intelligence?</p>","headings":["THE WORKS OF AURELIUS AUGUSTINE,","BOOK TWELFTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45304-paragraph-889"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"4a8591849443012a6ff78c59928d4c54ccb794a0661ffc904647c5ace3c651e9","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_570_570","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_570_570","source_ebook":45304,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_570_570\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_570_570\"><span class=\"label\">[570]</span></a> \"The Deity, desirous of making the universe in all respects resemble the\r\nmost beautiful and entirely perfect of intelligible objects, formed it into one\r\nvisible animal, containing within itself all the other animals with which it is\r\nnaturally allied.\"—<i>Timæus</i>, c. xi.</p></div>","source_sha256":"d89e9a2b80bb59f394f0fb1bf313b39fab162f06af6642166d62c5912c1195f1","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45304/pg45304-images.html#Footnote_570_570","text_sha256":"825225c1891abed5655a466a5d8737fa7a28d30fdd2753ba9d712c6796c26d03","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_570_570