{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>He who resolves to love God, and to love his neighbour as\r\nhimself, not according to man but according to God, is on\r\naccount of this love said to be of a good will; and this is in\r\nScripture more commonly called charity, but it is also, even\r\nin the same books, called love. For the apostle says that the\r\nman to be elected as a ruler of the people must be a lover of\r\ngood.<a id=\"FNanchor_25_25\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_25_25\">[25]</a> And when the Lord Himself had asked Peter, \"Hast\r\nthou a regard for me (<i>diligis</i>) more than these?\" Peter replied,\r\n\"Lord, Thou knowest that I love (<i>amo</i>) Thee.\" And\r\nagain a second time the Lord asked not whether Peter loved\r\n(<i>amaret</i>) Him, but whether he had a regard (<i>diligeret</i>) for Him,\r\nand he again answered, \"Lord, Thou knowest that I love (<i>amo</i>)\r\nThee.\" But on the third interrogation the Lord Himself no\r\nlonger says, \"Hast thou a regard (<i>diligis</i>) for me,\" but \"Lovest\r\nthou (<i>amas</i>) me?\" And then the evangelist adds, \"Peter was\r\ngrieved because He said unto him the third time, Lovest thou\r\n(<i>amas</i>) me?\" though the Lord had not said three times but only\r\nonce, \"Lovest thou (<i>amas</i>) me?\" and twice \"<i>Diligis me?</i>\" from\r\nwhich we gather that, even when the Lord said \"<i>diligis</i>,\" He used\r\nan equivalent for \"<i>amas</i>.\" Peter, too, throughout used one word<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_11\">[Pg 11]</a></span>\r\nfor the one thing, and the third time also replied, \"Lord, Thou\r\nknowest all things, Thou knowest that I love (<i>amo</i>) Thee.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_26_26\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_26_26\">[26]</a></p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK FOURTEENTH.[1]","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-36"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"3c8813912caf95bffcc1ed857f83582cac49d704025cb92beda18809de675a68","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_25_25","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_25_25","source_ebook":45305,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_25_25\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_25_25\"><span class=\"label\">[25]</span></a> Tit. i. 8, according to Greek and Vulgate.</p></div>","source_sha256":"7e0ced9e70512f3cf050b53c9d548e36b70d468d875153869f95d8aff5bbb530","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45305/pg45305-images.html#Footnote_25_25","text_sha256":"95eb5ead32ab87395993b09910133db4b7a6610b759351c0428ea0530b05428a","verified":false,"work_id":null}