Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>No one can doubt that he wrote this of Antichrist and of\r\nthe day of judgment, which he here calls the day of the Lord,\r\nnor that he declared that this day should not come unless he\r\nfirst came who is called the apostate—apostate, to wit, from\r\nthe Lord God. And if this may justly be said of all the ungodly,\r\nhow much more of him? But it is uncertain in what\r\ntemple he shall sit, whether in that ruin of the temple which\r\nwas built by Solomon, or in the Church; for the apostle\r\nwould not call the temple of any idol or demon the temple of\r\nGod. And on this account some think that in this passage\r\nAntichrist means not the prince himself alone, but his whole\r\nbody, that is, the mass of men who adhere to him, along with\r\nhim their prince; and they also think that we should render\r\nthe Greek more exactly were we to read, not \"in the temple\r\nof God,\" but \"for\" or \"as the temple of God,\" as if he himself\r\nwere the temple of God, the Church.<a id=\"FNanchor_764_764\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_764_764\">[764]</a> Then as for the\r\nwords, \"And now ye know what withholdeth,\" <i>i.e.</i> ye know\r\nwhat hindrance or cause of delay there is, \"that he might be\r\nrevealed in his own time;\" they show that he was unwilling\r\nto make an explicit statement, because he said that they knew.\r\nAnd thus we who have not their knowledge wish and are\r\nnot able even with pains to understand what the apostle referred\r\nto, especially as his meaning is made still more obscure\r\nby what he adds. For what does he mean by \"For the\r\nmystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now\r\nholdeth, let him hold until he be taken out of the way: and\r\nthen shall the wicked be revealed?\" I frankly confess I do<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_382\">[Pg 382]</a></span>\r\nnot know what he means. I will nevertheless mention such\r\nconjectures as I have heard or read.</p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK TWENTIETH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-609"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"31091f1fa28bb85d22c36ab792df25ddc2256e7c6e5ea3e4151dfecd87d3b6de","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_764_764","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_764_764","source_ebook":45305,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_764_764\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_764_764\"><span class=\"label\">[764]</span></a> Augustine adds the words, \"Sicut dicimus, Sedet in amicum, id est, velut\r\namicus; vel si quid aliud isto locutionis genere dici solet.\"</p></div>","source_sha256":"7e0ced9e70512f3cf050b53c9d548e36b70d468d875153869f95d8aff5bbb530","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45305/pg45305-images.html#Footnote_764_764","text_sha256":"fed7821e2c3b850eadd79db72943fe78bcb61e740d1bc67dacaaca74229be760","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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