Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>There is, too, a very great difference in the purpose served\r\nboth by those events which we call adverse and those called\r\nprosperous. For the good man is neither uplifted with the\r\ngood things of time, nor broken by its ills; but the wicked\r\nman, because he is corrupted by this world's happiness, feels\r\nhimself punished by its unhappiness.<a id=\"FNanchor_45_45\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_45_45\">[45]</a> Yet often, even in the<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_11\">[Pg 11]</a></span>\r\npresent distribution of temporal things, does God plainly evince\r\nHis own interference. For if every sin were now visited with\r\nmanifest punishment, nothing would seem to be reserved for\r\nthe final judgment; on the other hand, if no sin received now\r\na plainly divine punishment, it would be concluded that there\r\nis no divine providence at all. And so of the good things of\r\nthis life: if God did not by a very visible liberality confer\r\nthese on some of those persons who ask for them, we should\r\nsay that these good things were not at His disposal; and if\r\nHe gave them to all who sought them, we should suppose that\r\nsuch were the only rewards of His service; and such a service\r\nwould make us not godly, but greedy rather, and covetous.\r\nWherefore, though good and bad men suffer alike, we must\r\nnot suppose that there is no difference between the men themselves,\r\nbecause there is no difference in what they both suffer.\r\nFor even in the likeness of the sufferings, there remains an\r\nunlikeness in the sufferers; and though exposed to the same\r\nanguish, virtue and vice are not the same thing. For as the\r\nsame fire causes gold to glow brightly, and chaff to smoke; and\r\nunder the same flail the straw is beaten small, while the grain\r\nis cleansed; and as the lees are not mixed with the oil, though\r\nsqueezed out of the vat by the same pressure, so the same\r\nviolence of affliction proves, purges, clarifies the good, but\r\ndamns, ruins, exterminates the wicked. And thus it is that\r\nin the same affliction the wicked detest God and blaspheme,\r\nwhile the good pray and praise. So material a difference does\r\nit make, not what ills are suffered, but what kind of man\r\nsuffers them. For, stirred up with the same movement, mud\r\nexhales a horrible stench, and ointment emits a fragrant odour.</p>","headings":["THE WORKS OF AURELIUS AUGUSTINE,","BOOK FIRST."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45304-paragraph-43"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"5b34f1463cc80938450bcc3307c5739c5504e3a8a2b27a217dbb923e59d7a121","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_45_45","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_45_45","source_ebook":45304,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_45_45\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_45_45\"><span class=\"label\">[45]</span></a> So Cyprian (<i>Contra Demetrianum</i>) says, \"Pœnam de adversis mundi ille\r\nsentit, cui et lætitia et gloria omnis in mundo est.\"</p></div>","source_sha256":"d89e9a2b80bb59f394f0fb1bf313b39fab162f06af6642166d62c5912c1195f1","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45304/pg45304-images.html#Footnote_45_45","text_sha256":"ef19150116d196434b2d426e69acad9d4af941ee5ab5de6cd4ef63829257dec2","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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