Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>It is very right that these blessed and immortal spirits,\r\nwho inhabit celestial dwellings, and rejoice in the communications\r\nof their Creator's fulness, firm in His eternity, assured\r\nin His truth, holy by His grace, since they compassionately\r\nand tenderly regard us miserable mortals, and wish us to\r\nbecome immortal and happy, do not desire us to sacrifice to\r\nthemselves, but to Him whose sacrifice they know themselves\r\nto be in common with us. For we and they together are the\r\none city of God, to which it is said in the psalm, \"Glorious\r\nthings are spoken of thee, O city of God;\"<a id=\"FNanchor_393_393\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_393_393\">[393]</a> the human part\r\nsojourning here below, the angelic aiding from above. For\r\nfrom that heavenly city, in which God's will is the intelligible\r\nand unchangeable law, from that heavenly council-chamber,—for\r\nthey sit in counsel regarding us,—that holy Scripture, descended\r\nto us by the ministry of angels, in which it is written,\r\n\"He that sacrificeth unto any god, save unto the Lord only,\r\nhe shall be utterly destroyed,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_394_394\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_394_394\">[394]</a>—this Scripture, this law, these\r\nprecepts, have been confirmed by such miracles, that it is sufficiently\r\nevident to whom these immortal and blessed spirits,\r\nwho desire us to be like themselves, wish us to sacrifice.</p>","headings":["THE WORKS OF AURELIUS AUGUSTINE,","BOOK TENTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45304-paragraph-693"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"488a00b34593cfacd31309ccff3cfdd71a4475001285fcd171029b7ad0cf141d","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_394_394","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_394_394","source_ebook":45304,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_394_394\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_394_394\"><span class=\"label\">[394]</span></a> Ex. xxii. 20.</p></div>","source_sha256":"d89e9a2b80bb59f394f0fb1bf313b39fab162f06af6642166d62c5912c1195f1","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45304/pg45304-images.html#Footnote_394_394","text_sha256":"a36a1f5bb4914936b714ac6e3d92e6ee12f5c1dc061c971968d0254ca25d29c1","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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