{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>But remember that, in recounting these things, I have still\r\nto address myself to ignorant men; so ignorant, indeed, as to\r\ngive birth to the common saying, \"Drought and Christianity\r\ngo hand in hand.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_83_83\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_83_83\">[83]</a> There are indeed some among them who<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_51\">[Pg 51]</a></span>\r\nare thoroughly well educated men, and have a taste for history,\r\nin which the things I speak of are open to their observation;\r\nbut in order to irritate the uneducated masses against us, they\r\nfeign ignorance of these events, and do what they can to make\r\nthe vulgar believe that those disasters, which in certain places\r\nand at certain times uniformly befall mankind, are the result\r\nof Christianity, which is being everywhere diffused, and is\r\npossessed of a renown and brilliancy which quite eclipse\r\ntheir own gods.<a id=\"FNanchor_84_84\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_84_84\">[84]</a> Let them then, along with us, call to mind\r\nwith what various and repeated disasters the prosperity of\r\nRome was blighted, before ever Christ had come in the flesh,\r\nand before His name had been blazoned among the nations\r\nwith that glory which they vainly grudge. Let them, if they\r\ncan, defend their gods in this article, since they maintain\r\nthat they worship them in order to be preserved from these\r\ndisasters, which they now impute to us if they suffer in the\r\nleast degree. For why did these gods permit the disasters\r\nI am to speak of to fall on their worshippers before the\r\npreaching of Christ's name offended them, and put an end to\r\ntheir sacrifices?</p>","headings":["THE WORKS OF AURELIUS AUGUSTINE,","BOOK SECOND.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45304-paragraph-122"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"2564865ff4d382c622f3da935949a646afe46aeabd29f45ab9380536f18bc458","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_83_83","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_83_83","source_ebook":45304,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_83_83\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_83_83\"><span class=\"label\">[83]</span></a> \"Pluvia defit, causa Christiani.\" Similar accusations and similar replies may\r\nbe seen in the celebrated passage of Tertullian's <i>Apol.</i> c. 40, and in the eloquent\r\nexordium of Arnobius, <i>C. Gentes</i>.</p></div>","source_sha256":"d89e9a2b80bb59f394f0fb1bf313b39fab162f06af6642166d62c5912c1195f1","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45304/pg45304-images.html#Footnote_83_83","text_sha256":"cca2bc051715fb2b4039825772ff44c107516cd500440be6a9791815bf4d84eb","verified":false,"work_id":null}