Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>For the good God, lest men, who believe that He is to be\r\nworshipped with a view to eternal life, should think that no\r\none could attain to all this high estate, and to this terrestrial\r\ndominion, unless he should be a worshipper of the demons,—supposing<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_224\">[Pg 224]</a></span>\r\nthat these spirits have great power with respect to\r\nsuch things,—for this reason He gave to the Emperor Constantine,\r\nwho was not a worshipper of demons, but of the\r\ntrue God Himself, such fulness of earthly gifts as no one\r\nwould even dare wish for. To him also He granted the\r\nhonour of founding a city,<a id=\"FNanchor_222_222\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_222_222\">[222]</a> a companion to the Roman empire,\r\nthe daughter, as it were, of Rome itself, but without any\r\ntemple or image of the demons. He reigned for a long period\r\nas sole emperor, and unaided held and defended the whole\r\nRoman world. In conducting and carrying on wars he was\r\nmost victorious; in overthrowing tyrants he was most successful.\r\nHe died at a great age, of sickness and old age, and left\r\nhis sons to succeed him in the empire.<a id=\"FNanchor_223_223\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_223_223\">[223]</a> But again, lest any\r\nemperor should become a Christian in order to merit the happiness\r\nof Constantine, when every one should be a Christian\r\nfor the sake of eternal life, God took away Jovian far sooner\r\nthan Julian, and permitted that Gratian should be slain by\r\nthe sword of a tyrant. But in his case there was far more\r\nmitigation of the calamity than in the case of the great\r\nPompey, for he could not be avenged by Cato, whom he had\r\nleft, as it were, heir to the civil war. But Gratian, though\r\npious minds require not such consolations, was avenged by\r\nTheodosius, whom he had associated with himself in the\r\nempire, though he had a little brother of his own, being more\r\ndesirous of a faithful alliance than of extensive power.</p>","headings":["THE WORKS OF AURELIUS AUGUSTINE,","BOOK FIFTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45304-paragraph-415"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"e539fcc28e9ac5be27f64c973caa9909643917e860eaa392c3641b83273a7d57","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_223_223","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_223_223","source_ebook":45304,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_223_223\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_223_223\"><span class=\"label\">[223]</span></a> Constantius, Constantine, and Constans.</p></div>","source_sha256":"d89e9a2b80bb59f394f0fb1bf313b39fab162f06af6642166d62c5912c1195f1","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45304/pg45304-images.html#Footnote_223_223","text_sha256":"0b93c89a331c4a83f0869063372b5b3fadfd4cb5cdaee7b4848d0a4c212c7ca0","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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