Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>When the human race, in the exercise of this freedom of\r\nwill, increased and advanced, there arose a mixture and confusion\r\nof the two cities by their participation in a common\r\niniquity. And this calamity, as well as the first, was occasioned\r\nby woman, though not in the same way; for these\r\nwomen were not themselves betrayed, neither did they persuade\r\nthe men to sin, but having belonged to the earthly city\r\nand society of the earthly, they had been of corrupt manners\r\nfrom the first, and were loved for their bodily beauty by the\r\nsons of God, or the citizens of the other city which sojourns\r\nin this world. Beauty is indeed a good gift of God; but\r\nthat the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it\r\neven to the wicked. And thus, when the good that is great\r\nand proper to the good was abandoned by the sons of God,\r\nthey fell to a paltry good which is not peculiar to the good,\r\nbut common to the good and the evil; and when they were\r\ncaptivated by the daughters of men, they adopted the manners\r\nof the earthly to win them as their brides, and forsook the\r\ngodly ways they had followed in their own holy society. And\r\nthus beauty, which is indeed God's handiwork, but only a\r\ntemporal, carnal, and lower kind of good, is not fitly loved in\r\npreference to God, the eternal, spiritual, and unchangeable\r\ngood. When the miser prefers his gold to justice, it is through\r\nno fault of the gold, but of the man; and so with every\r\ncreated thing. For though it be good, it may be loved with\r\nan evil as well as with a good love: it is loved rightly when\r\nit is loved ordinately; evilly, when inordinately. It is this\r\nwhich some one has briefly said in these verses in praise of\r\nthe Creator:<a id=\"FNanchor_203_203\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_203_203\">[203]</a> \"These are Thine, they are good, because Thou\r\nart good who didst create them. There is in them nothing\r\nof ours, unless the sin we commit when we forget the order\r\nof things, and instead of Thee love that which Thou hast\r\nmade.\"</p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK FIFTEENTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-153"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"56ac64649be892ea5710f8464b5179282caa51320c6652741dd9b79049235e7d","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_203_203","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_203_203","source_ebook":45305,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_203_203\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_203_203\"><span class=\"label\">[203]</span></a> Or, according to another reading, \"Which I briefly said in these verses in\r\npraise of a taper.\"</p></div>","source_sha256":"7e0ced9e70512f3cf050b53c9d548e36b70d468d875153869f95d8aff5bbb530","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45305/pg45305-images.html#Footnote_203_203","text_sha256":"1d258df2f1a197b2bf1595653eb7bbc71e1594427a4f6b3b32cc9033d6fea3a5","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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