Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>These works are recorded to have been completed in six\r\ndays (the same day being six times repeated), because six\r\nis a perfect number,—not because God required a protracted\r\ntime, as if He could not at once create all things, which then\r\nshould mark the course of time by the movements proper to\r\nthem, but because the perfection of the works was signified\r\nby the number six. For the number six is the first which is\r\nmade up of its own<a id=\"FNanchor_496_496\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_496_496\">[496]</a> parts, <i>i.e.</i>, of its sixth, third, and half,\r\nwhich are respectively one, two, and three, and which make\r\na total of six. In this way of looking at a number, those are\r\nsaid to be its parts which exactly divide it, as a half, a third,\r\na fourth, or a fraction with any denominator,—<i>e.g.</i>, four is a\r\npart of nine, but not therefore an aliquot part; but one is, for\r\nit is the ninth part; and three is, for it is the third. Yet\r\nthese two parts, the ninth and the third, or one and three, are\r\nfar from making its whole sum of nine. So again, in the\r\nnumber ten, four is a part, yet does not divide it; but one is\r\nan aliquot part, for it is a tenth; so it has a fifth, which is\r\ntwo; and a half, which is five. But these three parts, a tenth,\r\na fifth, and a half, or one, two, and five, added together, do not\r\nmake ten, but eight. Of the number twelve, again, the parts\r\nadded together exceed the whole; for it has a twelfth, that is,\r\none; a sixth, or two; a fourth, which is three; a third, which\r\nis four; and a half, which is six. But one, two, three, four, and\r\nsix make up, not twelve, but more, viz. sixteen. So much I\r\nhave thought fit to state for the sake of illustrating the perfection\r\nof the number six, which is, as I said, the first which<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_475\">[Pg 475]</a></span>\r\nis exactly made up of its own parts added together; and in\r\nthis number of days God finished His work.<a id=\"FNanchor_497_497\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_497_497\">[497]</a> And, therefore,\r\nwe must not despise the science of numbers, which, in many\r\npassages of holy Scripture, is found to be of eminent service\r\nto the careful interpreter.<a id=\"FNanchor_498_498\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_498_498\">[498]</a> Neither has it been without\r\nreason numbered among God's praises, \"Thou hast ordered\r\nall things in number, and measure, and weight.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_499_499\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_499_499\">[499]</a></p>","headings":["THE WORKS OF AURELIUS AUGUSTINE,","BOOK ELEVENTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45304-paragraph-818"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"6fb7ef947a723a0cd3733799a1a8b0033c63b28983c75dc51a4a7d6ffdd47605","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_499_499","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_499_499","source_ebook":45304,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_499_499\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_499_499\"><span class=\"label\">[499]</span></a> Wisd. xi. 20.</p></div>","source_sha256":"d89e9a2b80bb59f394f0fb1bf313b39fab162f06af6642166d62c5912c1195f1","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45304/pg45304-images.html#Footnote_499_499","text_sha256":"477685c93d66d99c37fccd6d4635eb0483be2a8a45de20a1b6b5b5ad34546af3","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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