Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>The same author had also used the expression, \"the evil\r\ncontentments of the mind.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_47_47\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_47_47\">[47]</a> So that good and bad men\r\nalike will, are cautious, and contented; or, to say the same\r\nthing in other words, good and bad men alike desire, fear,\r\nrejoice, but the former in a good, the latter in a bad fashion,\r\naccording as the will is right or wrong. Sorrow itself, too,<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_15\">[Pg 15]</a></span>\r\nwhich the Stoics would not allow to be represented in the\r\nmind of the wise man, is used in a good sense, and especially\r\nin our writings. For the apostle praises the Corinthians\r\nbecause they had a godly sorrow. But possibly some one\r\nmay say that the apostle congratulated them because they\r\nwere penitently sorry, and that such sorrow can exist only in\r\nthose who have sinned. For these are his words: \"For I\r\nperceive that the same epistle hath made you sorry, though\r\nit were but for a season. Now I rejoice, not that ye were\r\nmade sorry, but that ye sorrowed to repentance; for ye were\r\nmade sorry after a godly manner, that ye might receive\r\ndamage by us in nothing. For godly sorrow worketh repentance\r\nto salvation not to be repented of, but the sorrow of the\r\nworld worketh death. For, behold, this selfsame thing that\r\nye sorrowed after a godly sort, what carefulness it wrought in\r\nyou!\"<a id=\"FNanchor_48_48\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_48_48\">[48]</a> Consequently the Stoics may defend themselves by\r\nreplying,<a id=\"FNanchor_49_49\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_49_49\">[49]</a> that sorrow is indeed useful for repentance of sin,\r\nbut that this can have no place in the mind of the wise man,\r\ninasmuch as no sin attaches to him of which he could\r\nsorrowfully repent, nor any other evil the endurance or experience\r\nof which could make him sorrowful. For they say\r\nthat Alcibiades (if my memory does not deceive me), who\r\nbelieved himself happy, shed tears when Socrates argued with\r\nhim, and demonstrated that he was miserable because he was\r\nfoolish. In his case, therefore, folly was the cause of this\r\nuseful and desirable sorrow, wherewith a man mourns that he\r\nis what he ought not to be. But the Stoics maintain not\r\nthat the fool, but that the wise man, cannot be sorrowful.</p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK FOURTEENTH.[1]","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-42"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"549e8ae22df0abe3c7828d6ec7d4f0038ac7aee9f2febad19acfd15ca84d92b4","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_49_49","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_49_49","source_ebook":45305,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_49_49\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_49_49\"><span class=\"label\">[49]</span></a> <i>Tusc. Disp.</i> iii. 32.</p></div>","source_sha256":"7e0ced9e70512f3cf050b53c9d548e36b70d468d875153869f95d8aff5bbb530","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45305/pg45305-images.html#Footnote_49_49","text_sha256":"b74803f393f8d68288519bf048742164597f53aabb96743f2de5170a41d5021c","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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