Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>How elegantly they have accounted for this name! \"He\r\nis also called Pecunia,\" say they, \"because all things belong\r\nto him.\" Oh how grand an explanation of the name of a\r\ndeity! Yes; he to whom all things belong is most meanly\r\nand most contumeliously called Pecunia. In comparison of all\r\nthings which are contained by heaven and earth, what are all\r\nthings together which are possessed by men under the name\r\nof money?<a id=\"FNanchor_269_269\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_269_269\">[269]</a> And this name, forsooth, hath avarice given to\r\nJupiter, that whoever was a lover of money might seem to\r\nhimself to love not an ordinary god, but the very king of all\r\nthings himself. But it would be a far different thing if he had\r\nbeen called Riches. For riches are one thing, money another.\r\nFor we call rich the wise, the just, the good, who have either\r\nno money or very little. For they are more truly rich in\r\npossessing virtue, since by it, even as respects things necessary\r\nfor the body, they are content with what they have. But we\r\ncall the greedy poor, who are always craving and always wanting.\r\nFor they may possess ever so great an amount of money;\r\nbut whatever be the abundance of that, they are not able\r\nbut to want. And we properly call God Himself rich; not,\r\nhowever, in money, but in omnipotence. Therefore they who\r\nhave abundance of money are called rich, but inwardly needy\r\nif they are greedy. So also, those who have no money are\r\ncalled poor, but inwardly rich if they are wise.</p>","headings":["THE WORKS OF AURELIUS AUGUSTINE,","BOOK SEVENTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45304-paragraph-501"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"1517590500848cb9644b6060ddee16a64220711d043e0bd360ed8da8e8eba28d","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_269_269","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_269_269","source_ebook":45304,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_269_269\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_269_269\"><span class=\"label\">[269]</span></a> \"Pecunia,\" that is, property; the original meaning of \"pecunia\" being\r\nproperty in cattle, then property or wealth of any kind. Comp. Augustine,\r\n<i>De discipl. Christ.</i> 6.</p></div>","source_sha256":"d89e9a2b80bb59f394f0fb1bf313b39fab162f06af6642166d62c5912c1195f1","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45304/pg45304-images.html#Footnote_269_269","text_sha256":"be9b4b9e5b62c26d4b07a31d9ee9cdf5d04530d38a0dfa95cc286d9a71e9fe8e","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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