Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>I am considerably surprised that such learned men, men\r\nwho pronounce all material and sensible things to be altogether\r\ninferior to those that are spiritual and intelligible,\r\nshould mention bodily contact in connection with the blessed\r\nlife. Is that sentiment of Plotinus forgotten?—\"We must fly\r\nto our beloved fatherland. There is the Father, there our all.\r\nWhat fleet or flight shall convey us thither? Our way is, to\r\nbecome like God.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_349_349\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_349_349\">[349]</a> If, then, one is nearer to God the liker\r\nhe is to Him, there is no other distance from God than unlikeness\r\nto Him. And the soul of man is unlike that incorporeal\r\nand unchangeable and eternal essence, in proportion as\r\nit craves things temporal and mutable. And as the things\r\nbeneath, which are mortal and impure, cannot hold intercourse\r\nwith the immortal purity which is above, a mediator is indeed\r\nneeded to remove this difficulty; but not a mediator who resembles\r\nthe highest order of being by possessing an immortal\r\nbody, and the lowest by having a diseased soul, which makes\r\nhim rather grudge that we be healed than help our cure. We\r\nneed a Mediator who, being united to us here below by the mortality\r\nof His body, should at the same time be able to afford us\r\ntruly divine help in cleansing and liberating us by means of\r\nthe immortal righteousness of His spirit, whereby He remained\r\nheavenly even while here upon earth. Far be it from the\r\nincontaminable God to fear pollution from the man<a id=\"FNanchor_350_350\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_350_350\">[350]</a> He assumed,\r\nor from the men among whom He lived in the form\r\nof a man. For, though His incarnation showed us nothing\r\nelse, these two wholesome facts were enough, that true\r\ndivinity cannot be polluted by flesh, and that demons are not\r\nto be considered better than ourselves because they have not\r\nflesh.<a id=\"FNanchor_351_351\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_351_351\">[351]</a> This, then, as Scripture says, is the \"Mediator between\r\nGod and man, the man Christ Jesus,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_352_352\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_352_352\">[352]</a> of whose divinity,<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_375\">[Pg 375]</a></span>\r\nwhereby He is equal to the Father, and humanity, whereby\r\nHe has become like us, this is not the place to speak as fully\r\nas I could.</p>","headings":["THE WORKS OF AURELIUS AUGUSTINE,","BOOK NINTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45304-paragraph-662"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"f7ee98d0445b8ab8d9d7f57acd10d90a20f2d2385b320bfd410302517a54c7f8","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_349_349","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_349_349","source_ebook":45304,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_349_349\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_349_349\"><span class=\"label\">[349]</span></a> Augustine apparently quotes from memory from two passages of the <i>Enneades</i>,\r\nI. vi. 8, and ii. 3.</p></div>","source_sha256":"d89e9a2b80bb59f394f0fb1bf313b39fab162f06af6642166d62c5912c1195f1","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45304/pg45304-images.html#Footnote_349_349","text_sha256":"d353a1188edc0928e3a1a69a0c47f9af292ca01989be8935155c55c3c820a2c1","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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