Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>This, rather, is the religion worthy of your desires, O admirable\r\nRoman race,—the progeny of your Scævolas and Scipios, of\r\nRegulus, and of Fabricius. This rather covet, this distinguish\r\nfrom that foul vanity and crafty malice of the devils. If there\r\nis in your nature any eminent virtue, only by true piety is it\r\npurged and perfected, while by impiety it is wrecked and\r\npunished. Choose now what you will pursue, that your praise\r\nmay be not in yourself, but in the true God, in whom is no\r\nerror. For of popular glory you have had your share; but by\r\nthe secret providence of God, the true religion was not offered\r\nto your choice. Awake, it is now day; as you have already\r\nawaked in the persons of some in whose perfect virtue and\r\nsufferings for the true faith we glory: for they, contending\r\non all sides with hostile powers, and conquering them all by\r\nbravely dying, have purchased for us this country of ours with\r\ntheir blood; to which country we invite you, and exhort you\r\nto add yourselves to the number of the citizens of this city,\r\nwhich also has a sanctuary<a id=\"FNanchor_113_113\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_113_113\">[113]</a> of its own in the true remission of\r\nsins. Do not listen to those degenerate sons of thine who\r\nslander Christ and Christians, and impute to them these disastrous\r\ntimes, though they desire times in which they may\r\nenjoy rather impunity for their wickedness than a peaceful life.\r\nSuch has never been Rome's ambition even in regard to her\r\nearthly country. Lay hold now on the celestial country,\r\nwhich is easily won, and in which you will reign truly and\r\nfor ever. For there shalt thou find no vestal fire, no Capitoline\r\nstone, but the one true God</p>","headings":["THE WORKS OF AURELIUS AUGUSTINE,","BOOK SECOND.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45304-paragraph-187"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"2db443ab5dcaf0380e17e7bafcb0073868da417e41261b8eadcbd55bc597e2e2","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_113_113","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_113_113","source_ebook":45304,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_113_113\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_113_113\"><span class=\"label\">[113]</span></a> Alluding to the sanctuary given to all who fled to Rome in its early days.</p></div>","source_sha256":"d89e9a2b80bb59f394f0fb1bf313b39fab162f06af6642166d62c5912c1195f1","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45304/pg45304-images.html#Footnote_113_113","text_sha256":"2c19a22d807e4a9384897bc3428b7957e5680b9373baf26f25a013695546a35e","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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