Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Let no man then so understand the words of the Psalmist,\r\n\"Shall God forget to be gracious? shall He shut up in His\r\nanger His tender mercies?\"<a id=\"FNanchor_908_908\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_908_908\">[908]</a> as if the sentence of God were\r\ntrue of good men, false of bad men, or true of good men and\r\nwicked angels, but false of bad men. For the Psalmist's words\r\nrefer to the vessels of mercy and the children of the promise,\r\nof whom the prophet himself was one; for when he had said,\r\n\"Shall God forget to be gracious? shall He shut up in His\r\nanger His tender mercies?\" and then immediately subjoins,\r\n\"And I said, Now I begin: this is the change wrought by<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_454\">[Pg 454]</a></span>\r\nthe right hand of the Most High,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_909_909\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_909_909\">[909]</a> he manifestly explained\r\nwhat he meant by the words, \"Shall He shut up in His\r\nanger His tender mercies?\" For God's anger is this mortal\r\nlife, in which man is made like to vanity, and his days pass\r\nas a shadow.<a id=\"FNanchor_910_910\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_910_910\">[910]</a> Yet in this anger God does not forget to be\r\ngracious, causing His sun to shine and His rain to descend on\r\nthe just and the unjust;<a id=\"FNanchor_911_911\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_911_911\">[911]</a> and thus He does not in His anger\r\ncut short His tender mercies, and especially in what the\r\nPsalmist speaks of in the words, \"Now I begin: this change\r\nis from the right hand of the Most High;\" for He changes for\r\nthe better the vessels of mercy, even while they are still in\r\nthis most wretched life, which is God's anger, and even while\r\nHis anger is manifesting itself in this miserable corruption;\r\nfor \"in His anger He does not shut up His tender mercies.\"\r\nAnd since the truth of this divine canticle is quite satisfied by\r\nthis application of it, there is no need to give it a reference to\r\nthat place in which those who do not belong to the city of God\r\nare punished in eternal fire. But if any persist in extending\r\nits application to the torments of the wicked, let them at least\r\nunderstand it so that the anger of God, which has threatened\r\nthe wicked with eternal punishment, shall abide, but shall be\r\nmixed with mercy to the extent of alleviating the torments\r\nwhich might justly be inflicted; so that the wicked shall\r\nneither wholly escape, nor only for a time endure these threatened\r\npains, but that they shall be less severe and more endurable\r\nthan they deserve. Thus the anger of God shall continue,\r\nand at the same time He will not in this anger shut up His\r\ntender mercies. But even this hypothesis I am not to be\r\nsupposed to affirm because I do not positively oppose it.<a id=\"FNanchor_912_912\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_912_912\">[912]</a></p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK TWENTY-FIRST.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-719"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"8ba8bb271223f1e71b7d5e9c898cab572f281383ca05290f77b55942e13a63e3","edition_title":"The City of God, Volume II","edition_translators":["Marcus Dods","George Wilson (Books XVII-XVIII)"],"edition_year":1871,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg45305-Footnote_912_912","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_912_912","source_ebook":45305,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_912_912\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_912_912\"><span class=\"label\">[912]</span></a> It is the theory which Chrysostom adopts.</p></div>","source_sha256":"7e0ced9e70512f3cf050b53c9d548e36b70d468d875153869f95d8aff5bbb530","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45305/pg45305-images.html#Footnote_912_912","text_sha256":"c15656dbc3fb7e8938c021c8cff3bc8f29682f8d6cca30ee94d2ebc13c107dc5","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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