Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>And the angels are not the only members of the rational\r\nand intellectual creation whom we call blessed. For who\r\nwill take upon him to deny that those first men in Paradise\r\nwere blessed previously to sin, although they were uncertain\r\nhow long their blessedness was to last, and whether it would\r\nbe eternal (and eternal it would have been had they not\r\nsinned),—who, I say, will do so, seeing that even now we not\r\nunbecomingly call those blessed whom we see leading a\r\nrighteous and holy life in hope of immortality, who have no\r\nharrowing remorse of conscience, but obtain readily divine remission\r\nof the sins of their present infirmity? These, though\r\nthey are certain that they shall be rewarded if they persevere,\r\nare not certain that they will persevere. For what man can\r\nknow that he will persevere to the end in the exercise and\r\nincrease of grace, unless he has been certified by some revelation\r\nfrom Him who, in His just and secret judgment, while\r\nHe deceives none, informs few regarding this matter? Accordingly,<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_452\">[Pg 452]</a></span>\r\nso far as present comfort goes, the first man in\r\nParadise was more blessed than any just man in this insecure\r\nstate; but as regards the hope of future good, every man who\r\nnot merely supposes, but certainly knows that he shall eternally\r\nenjoy the most high God in the company of angels,\r\nand beyond the reach of ill,—this man, no matter what bodily\r\ntorments afflict him, is more blessed than was he who, even\r\nin that great felicity of Paradise, was uncertain of his fate.<a id=\"FNanchor_468_468\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_468_468\">[468]</a></p>","headings":["THE WORKS OF AURELIUS AUGUSTINE,","BOOK ELEVENTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45304-paragraph-780"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"ccc11ae1c3e0d5784be00ebcdc0e0987dd1f717e0d5ef783350b2c30de2e0e36","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_468_468","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_468_468","source_ebook":45304,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_468_468\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_468_468\"><span class=\"label\">[468]</span></a> With this chapter compare the books <i>De Dono Persever.</i> and <i>De Correp.\r\net Gratia</i>.</p></div>","source_sha256":"d89e9a2b80bb59f394f0fb1bf313b39fab162f06af6642166d62c5912c1195f1","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45304/pg45304-images.html#Footnote_468_468","text_sha256":"0a076beef098c1380935ffc5307a41d3b6e30ea74d92ccfbba1a734d903c041f","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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