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{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>But, it is added, many Christians were slaughtered, and\r\nwere put to death in a hideous variety of cruel ways. Well,\r\nif this be hard to bear, it is assuredly the common lot of all\r\nwho are born into this life. Of this at least I am certain,\r\nthat no one has ever died who was not destined to die some\r\ntime. Now the end of life puts the longest life on a par with\r\nthe shortest. For of two things which have alike ceased to\r\nbe, the one is not better, the other worse—the one greater, the\r\nother less.<a id=\"FNanchor_55_55\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_55_55\">[55]</a> And of what consequence is it what kind of\r\ndeath puts an end to life, since he who has died once is not\r\nforced to go through the same ordeal a second time? And as\r\nin the daily casualties of life every man is, as it were, threatened\r\nwith numberless deaths, so long as it remains uncertain\r\nwhich of them is his fate, I would ask whether it is not better\r\nto suffer one and die, than to live in fear of all? I am not\r\nunaware of the poor-spirited fear which prompts us to choose\r\nrather to live long in fear of so many deaths, than to die once\r\nand so escape them all; but the weak and cowardly shrinking\r\nof the flesh is one thing, and the well-considered and reasonable\r\npersuasion of the soul quite another. That death is not\r\nto be judged an evil which is the end of a good life; for\r\ndeath becomes evil only by the retribution which follows it.\r\nThey, then, who are destined to die, need not be careful to\r\ninquire what death they are to die, but into what place death\r\nwill usher them. And since Christians are well aware that\r\nthe death of the godly pauper whose sores the dogs licked\r\nwas far better than of the wicked rich man who lay in purple\r\nand fine linen, what harm could these terrific deaths do to\r\nthe dead who had lived well?</p>","headings":["THE WORKS OF AURELIUS AUGUSTINE,","BOOK FIRST."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45304-paragraph-55"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"62aeceac20f7234c56bec8f47b758da9b6a73ff2573c8b492e66ff8fa3fd8a35","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_55_55","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_55_55","source_ebook":45304,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_55_55\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_55_55\"><span class=\"label\">[55]</span></a> Much of a kindred nature might be gathered from the Stoics. Antoninus\r\nsays (ii. 14): \"Though thou shouldest be going to live 3000 years, and as many\r\ntimes 10,000 years, still remember that no man loses any other life than this\r\nwhich he now lives, nor lives any other than this which he now loses. The\r\nlongest and the shortest are thus brought to the same.\"</p></div>","source_sha256":"d89e9a2b80bb59f394f0fb1bf313b39fab162f06af6642166d62c5912c1195f1","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45304/pg45304-images.html#Footnote_55_55","text_sha256":"b86767d4d3871e4e10e126000bfd397cc8e9505827e9d94db09b3f14a393ff4e","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_55_55