Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Besides, this too has to be inquired into, whether, if the<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_493\">[Pg 493]</a></span>\r\ngood angels made their own will good, they did so with or\r\nwithout will? If without, then it was not their doing. If\r\nwith, was the will good or bad? If bad, how could a bad\r\nwill give birth to a good one? If good, then already they had\r\na good will. And who made this will, which already they\r\nhad, but He who created them with a good will, or with that\r\nchaste love by which they cleaved to Him, in one and the\r\nsame act creating their nature, and endowing it with grace?\r\nAnd thus we are driven to believe that the holy angels never\r\nexisted without a good will or the love of God. But the\r\nangels who, though created good, are yet evil now, became so\r\nby their own will. And this will was not made evil by their\r\ngood nature, unless by its voluntary defection from good;\r\nfor good is not the cause of evil, but a defection from good\r\nis. These angels, therefore, either received less of the grace\r\nof the divine love than those who persevered in the same; or\r\nif both were created equally good, then, while the one fell by\r\ntheir evil will, the others were more abundantly assisted, and\r\nattained to that pitch of blessedness at which they became\r\ncertain they should never fall from it,—as we have already\r\nshown in the preceding book.<a id=\"FNanchor_528_528\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_528_528\">[528]</a> We must therefore acknowledge,\r\nwith the praise due to the Creator, that not only of\r\nholy men, but also of the holy angels, it can be said that\r\n\"the love of God is shed abroad in their hearts by the Holy\r\nGhost, which is given unto them.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_529_529\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_529_529\">[529]</a> And that not only of\r\nmen, but primarily and principally of angels it is true, as it\r\nis written, \"It is good to draw near to God.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_530_530\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_530_530\">[530]</a> And those\r\nwho have this good in common, have, both with Him to\r\nwhom they draw near, and with one another, a holy fellowship,\r\nand form one city of God—His living sacrifice, and His\r\nliving temple. And I see that, as I have now spoken of the\r\nrise of this city among the angels, it is time to speak of the\r\norigin of that part of it which is hereafter to be united to the\r\nimmortal angels, and which at present is being gathered from\r\namong mortal men, and is either sojourning on earth, or, in\r\nthe persons of those who have passed through death, is resting\r\nin the secret receptacles and abodes of disembodied spirits.\r\nFor from one man, whom God created as the first, the whole<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_494\">[Pg 494]</a></span>\r\nhuman race descended, according to the faith of Holy Scripture,\r\nwhich deservedly is of wonderful authority among all\r\nnations throughout the world; since, among its other true\r\nstatements, it predicted, by its divine foresight, that all nations\r\nwould give credit to it.</p>","headings":["THE WORKS OF AURELIUS AUGUSTINE,","BOOK TWELFTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45304-paragraph-849"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"387b434620882f136ce75ab362712af83c3ba791d60f9f4b809f967738d1e3aa","edition_title":"The City of God, Volume I","edition_translators":["Marcus Dods","George Wilson (Book IV)","J. 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