Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>But because God does not wholly desert those whom He\r\ncondemns, nor shuts up in His anger His tender mercies, the\r\nhuman race is restrained by law and instruction, which keep\r\nguard against the ignorance that besets us, and oppose the\r\nassaults of vice, but are themselves full of labour and sorrow.\r\nFor what mean those multifarious threats which are used to\r\nrestrain the folly of children? What mean pedagogues,\r\nmasters, the birch, the strap, the cane, the schooling which\r\nScripture says must be given a child, \"beating him on the\r\nsides lest he wax stubborn,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_1011_1011\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1011_1011\">[1011]</a> and it be hardly possible or not<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_519\">[Pg 519]</a></span>\r\npossible at all to subdue him? Why all these punishments,\r\nsave to overcome ignorance and bridle evil desires—these\r\nevils with which we come into the world? For why is it that\r\nwe remember with difficulty, and without difficulty forget?\r\nlearn with difficulty, and without difficulty remain ignorant?\r\nare diligent with difficulty, and without difficulty are indolent?\r\nDoes not this show what vitiated nature inclines and\r\ntends to by its own weight, and what succour it needs if it is\r\nto be delivered? Inactivity, sloth, laziness, negligence, are\r\nvices which shun labour, since labour, though useful, is itself\r\na punishment.</p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK TWENTY-SECOND.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-821"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"1e35caa1b59d910979a1b9bce1df531f83bc88b963cd1833d24c0c917efb6853","edition_title":"The City of God, Volume II","edition_translators":["Marcus Dods","George Wilson (Books XVII-XVIII)"],"edition_year":1871,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"SIR","chapter":30,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Ecclus. xxx. 12","verse":12,"verse_end":12}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45305-Footnote_1011_1011","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_1011_1011","source_ebook":45305,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_1011_1011\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_1011_1011\"><span class=\"label\">[1011]</span></a> Ecclus. xxx. 12.</p></div>","source_sha256":"7e0ced9e70512f3cf050b53c9d548e36b70d468d875153869f95d8aff5bbb530","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45305/pg45305-images.html#Footnote_1011_1011","text_sha256":"b29b088e2939d256f361501b8e852630f15b03bed698795a8363b75b47cb1e1d","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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