Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Those holy angels come to the knowledge of God not by\r\naudible words, but by the presence to their souls of immutable\r\ntruth, <i>i.e.</i>, of the only-begotten Word of God; and\r\nthey know this Word Himself, and the Father, and their\r\nHoly Spirit, and that this Trinity is indivisible, and that\r\nthe three persons of it are one substance, and that there\r\nare not three Gods but one God; and this they so know, that\r\nit is better understood by them than we are by ourselves.\r\nThus, too, they know the creature also, not in itself, but by this\r\nbetter way, in the wisdom of God, as if in the art by which\r\nit was created; and, consequently, they know themselves\r\nbetter in God than in themselves, though they have also\r\nthis latter knowledge. For they were created, and are\r\ndifferent from their Creator. In Him, therefore, they have,\r\nas it were, a noonday knowledge; in themselves, a twilight\r\nknowledge, according to our former explanations.<a id=\"FNanchor_495_495\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_495_495\">[495]</a> For there\r\nis a great difference between knowing a thing in the design\r\nin conformity to which it was made, and knowing it in itself,—<i>e.g.</i>,\r\nthe straightness of lines and correctness of figures is\r\nknown in one way when mentally conceived, in another when\r\ndescribed on paper; and justice is known in one way in the\r\nunchangeable truth, in another in the spirit of a just man.\r\nSo is it with all other things,—as, the firmament between the\r\nwater above and below, which was called the heaven; the\r\ngathering of the waters beneath, and the laying bare of the\r\ndry land, and the production of plants and trees; the creation\r\nof sun, moon, and stars; and of the animals out of the waters,\r\nfowls, and fish, and monsters of the deep; and of everything\r\nthat walks or creeps on the earth, and of man himself, who<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_474\">[Pg 474]</a></span>\r\nexcels all that is on the earth,—all these things are known\r\nin one way by the angels in the Word of God, in which they\r\nsee the eternally abiding causes and reasons according to which\r\nthey were made, and in another way in themselves: in the\r\nformer, with a clearer knowledge; in the latter, with a knowledge\r\ndimmer, and rather of the bare works than of the design.\r\nYet, when these works are referred to the praise and adoration\r\nof the Creator Himself, it is as if morning dawned in the\r\nminds of those who contemplate them.</p>","headings":["THE WORKS OF AURELIUS AUGUSTINE,","BOOK ELEVENTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45304-paragraph-816"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"8f2703b41b74f48057d4a3bd43c320d5dbf5647d8480fb063541382075f82921","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_495_495","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_495_495","source_ebook":45304,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_495_495\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_495_495\"><span class=\"label\">[495]</span></a> Ch. <a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#chap7\">7</a>.</p></div>","source_sha256":"d89e9a2b80bb59f394f0fb1bf313b39fab162f06af6642166d62c5912c1195f1","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45304/pg45304-images.html#Footnote_495_495","text_sha256":"cc4c81ee9a11e72af6ba7865008a43435e065ca78a52a0dc58cb059fbd6dd545","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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