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{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>The miracle which was wrought at Milan when I was there,\r\nand by which a blind man was restored to sight, could come\r\nto the knowledge of many; for not only is the city a large one,\r\nbut also the emperor was there at the time, and the occurrence\r\nwas witnessed by an immense concourse of people that had\r\ngathered to the bodies of the martyrs Protasius and Gervasius,\r\nwhich had long lain concealed and unknown, but were now\r\nmade known to the bishop Ambrose in a dream, and discovered\r\nby him. By virtue of these remains the darkness of that blind\r\nman was scattered, and he saw the light of day.<a id=\"FNanchor_973_973\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_973_973\">[973]</a></p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK TWENTY-SECOND.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-761"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"db3286e45f2e9c8ed190c233051f97bb8b1a6eb799ac88b3e65a0cc9210cc4f8","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_973_973","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_973_973","source_ebook":45305,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_973_973\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_973_973\"><span class=\"label\">[973]</span></a> A somewhat fuller account of this miracle is given by Augustine in the\r\n<i>Confessions</i>, ix. 16. See also <i>Serm.</i> 286, and Ambrose, <i>Ep.</i>. 22. A translation\r\nof this epistle in full is given in Isaac Taylor's <i>Ancient Christianity</i>, ii. 242,\r\nwhere this miracle is taken as a specimen of the so-called miracles of that age,\r\nand submitted to a detailed examination. The result arrived at will be gathered\r\nfrom the following sentence: \"In the Nicene Church, so lax were the notions\r\nof common morality, and in so feeble a manner did the fear of God influence the\r\nconduct of leading men, that, on occasions when the Church was to be served,\r\nand her assailants to be confounded, they did not scruple to take upon themselves\r\nthe contrivance and execution of the most degrading impostures.\"—P. 270.\r\nIt is to be observed, however, that Augustine was, at least in this instance, one\r\nof the deceived.</p></div>","source_sha256":"7e0ced9e70512f3cf050b53c9d548e36b70d468d875153869f95d8aff5bbb530","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45305/pg45305-images.html#Footnote_973_973","text_sha256":"93768d8bb3d0cb3dc382712c21b43b425eecb3a44fbe608c712b8401758070c8","verified":false,"work_id":null}references: [] | work_id: | origin: existing-private-derived-record | source: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45305/pg45305-images.html#Footnote_973_973