Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>But in the fourteenth book of this work<a id=\"FNanchor_857_857\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_857_857\">[857]</a> we have proved\r\nthat, according to the Platonists' own theory, souls, even when\r\npurged from all pollution of the body, are yet possessed by a\r\nmonstrous desire to return again into their bodies. But where\r\ndesire can exist, certainly pain also can exist; for desire\r\nfrustrated, either by missing what it aims at or losing what<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_417\">[Pg 417]</a></span>\r\nit had attained, is turned into pain. And therefore, if the\r\nsoul, which is either the only or the chief sufferer, has yet a\r\nkind of immortality of its own, it is inconsequent to say that\r\nbecause the bodies of the damned shall suffer pain, therefore\r\nthey shall die. In fine, if the body causes the soul to suffer,\r\nwhy can the body not cause death as well as suffering, unless\r\nbecause it does not follow that what causes pain causes death\r\nas well? And why then is it incredible that these fires can\r\ncause pain but not death to those bodies we speak of, just as\r\nthe bodies themselves cause pain, but not therefore death, to\r\nthe souls? Pain is therefore no necessary presumption of\r\ndeath.</p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK TWENTY-FIRST.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-657"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"3d588a9fa70b0bcc26d07b6b29404166327afe33c37d65906e8a1710f4b148f6","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_857_857","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_857_857","source_ebook":45305,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_857_857\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_857_857\"><span class=\"label\">[857]</span></a> Ch. <a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#chap143\">3</a>, <a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#chap145\">5</a>, <a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#chap146\">6</a>.</p></div>","source_sha256":"7e0ced9e70512f3cf050b53c9d548e36b70d468d875153869f95d8aff5bbb530","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45305/pg45305-images.html#Footnote_857_857","text_sha256":"1de442e3b01f542cefc7751aa7a9e0b588f0af5538d895f8ad714e1c9a714e18","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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