Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>The education of the human race, represented by the people\r\nof God, has advanced, like that of an individual, through certain\r\nepochs, or, as it were, ages, so that it might gradually rise\r\nfrom earthly to heavenly things, and from the visible to the\r\ninvisible. This object was kept so clearly in view, that, even\r\nin the period when temporal rewards were promised, the one\r\nGod was presented as the object of worship, that men might\r\nnot acknowledge any other than the true Creator and Lord of\r\nthe spirit, even in connection with the earthly blessings of\r\nthis transitory life. For he who denies that all things, which\r\neither angels or men can give us, are in the hand of the one\r\nAlmighty, is a madman. The Platonist Plotinus discourses<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_403\">[Pg 403]</a></span>\r\nconcerning providence, and, from the beauty of flowers and\r\nfoliage, proves that from the supreme God, whose beauty is\r\nunseen and ineffable, providence reaches down even to these\r\nearthly things here below; and he argues that all these frail\r\nand perishing things could not have so exquisite and elaborate\r\na beauty, were they not fashioned by Him whose unseen and\r\nunchangeable beauty continually pervades all things.<a id=\"FNanchor_402_402\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_402_402\">[402]</a> This\r\nis proved also by the Lord Jesus, where He says, 'Consider\r\nthe lilies, how they grow; they toil not, neither do they spin.\r\nAnd yet I say unto you that Solomon in all his glory was not\r\narrayed like one of these. But if God so clothe the grass of\r\nthe field, which to-day is and to-morrow is cast into the oven,\r\nhow much more shall He clothe you, O ye of little faith!'<a id=\"FNanchor_403_403\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_403_403\">[403]</a>\r\nIt was best, therefore, that the soul of man, which was still\r\nweakly desiring earthly things, should be accustomed to seek\r\nfrom God alone even these petty temporal boons, and the\r\nearthly necessaries of this transitory life, which are contemptible\r\nin comparison with eternal blessings, in order that the\r\ndesire even of these things might not draw it aside from the\r\nworship of Him, to whom we come by despising and forsaking\r\nsuch things.</p>","headings":["THE WORKS OF AURELIUS AUGUSTINE,","BOOK TENTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45304-paragraph-709"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"5f34ded52a63c4d31b60a54bad95fa7a92fc37fad5b926a3903abec197d838a5","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_402_402","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_402_402","source_ebook":45304,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_402_402\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_402_402\"><span class=\"label\">[402]</span></a> Plotin. <i>Ennead.</i> III. ii. 13.</p></div>","source_sha256":"d89e9a2b80bb59f394f0fb1bf313b39fab162f06af6642166d62c5912c1195f1","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45304/pg45304-images.html#Footnote_402_402","text_sha256":"fff925afdc74b1449986e0dc11bbce5d55ff99806aa83c2ade3559ef7564b398","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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