Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>But at present we are speaking of those beings whom he\r\ndescribed as being properly intermediate between gods and\r\nmen, in nature animals, in mind rational, in soul subject to<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_366\">[Pg 366]</a></span>\r\npassion, in body aerial, in duration eternal. When he had\r\ndistinguished the gods, whom he placed in the highest heaven,\r\nfrom men, whom he placed on earth, not only by position but\r\nalso by the unequal dignity of their natures, he concluded in\r\nthese words: \"You have here two kinds of animals: the\r\ngods, widely distinguished from men by sublimity of abode,\r\nperpetuity of life, perfection of nature; for their habitations\r\nare separated by so wide an interval that there can be no\r\nintimate communication between them, and while the vitality\r\nof the one is eternal and indefeasible, that of the others is\r\nfading and precarious, and while the spirits of the gods are\r\nexalted in bliss, those of men are sunk in miseries.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_346_346\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_346_346\">[346]</a> Here\r\nI find three opposite qualities ascribed to the extremes of\r\nbeing, the highest and lowest. For, after mentioning the three\r\nqualities for which we are to admire the gods, he repeated,\r\nthough in other words, the same three as a foil to the defects of\r\nman. The three qualities are, \"sublimity of abode, perpetuity\r\nof life, perfection of nature.\" These he again mentioned so\r\nas to bring out their contrasts in man's condition. As he had\r\nmentioned \"sublimity of abode,\" he says, \"Their habitations\r\nare separated by so wide an interval;\" as he had mentioned\r\n\"perpetuity of life,\" he says, that \"while divine life is\r\neternal and indefeasible, human life is fading and precarious;\"\r\nand as he had mentioned \"perfection of nature,\" he says, that\r\n\"while the spirits of the gods are exalted in bliss, those of\r\nmen are sunk in miseries.\" These three things, then, he predicates\r\nof the gods, exaltation, eternity, blessedness; and of\r\nman he predicates the opposite, lowliness of habitation, mortality,\r\nmisery.</p>","headings":["THE WORKS OF AURELIUS AUGUSTINE,","BOOK NINTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45304-paragraph-648"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"fa267722807acfeaa32a7bbda76bec8cd032830b4b3b04bc5b2fbd92a94c2829","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_346_346","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_346_346","source_ebook":45304,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_346_346\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_346_346\"><span class=\"label\">[346]</span></a> <i>De Deo Socratis.</i></p></div>","source_sha256":"d89e9a2b80bb59f394f0fb1bf313b39fab162f06af6642166d62c5912c1195f1","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45304/pg45304-images.html#Footnote_346_346","text_sha256":"8b8461f2d0e7c2fe6870803170873b396c991c8fed19e0767f33a607b8fbf1d0","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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