{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>The glorious city of God is my theme in this work, which\r\nyou, my dearest son Marcellinus,<a id=\"FNanchor_25_25\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_25_25\">[25]</a> suggested, and which\r\nis due to you by my promise. I have undertaken its defence\r\nagainst those who prefer their own gods to the Founder of\r\nthis city,—a city surpassingly glorious, whether we view it as it\r\nstill lives by faith in this fleeting course of time, and sojourns\r\nas a stranger in the midst of the ungodly, or as it shall dwell\r\nin the fixed stability of its eternal seat, which it now with\r\npatience waits for, expecting until \"righteousness shall return\r\nunto judgment,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_26_26\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_26_26\">[26]</a> and it obtain, by virtue of its excellence,\r\nfinal victory and perfect peace. A great work this, and an\r\narduous; but God is my helper. For I am aware what\r\nability is requisite to persuade the proud how great is the\r\nvirtue of humility, which raises us, not by a quite human\r\narrogance, but by a divine grace, above all earthly dignities\r\nthat totter on this shifting scene. For the King and Founder<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_2\">[Pg 2]</a></span>\r\nof this city of which we speak, has in Scripture uttered to\r\nHis people a dictum of the divine law in these words: \"God\r\nresisteth the proud, but giveth grace unto the humble.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_27_27\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_27_27\">[27]</a> But\r\nthis, which is God's prerogative, the inflated ambition of a\r\nproud spirit also affects, and dearly loves that this be numbered\r\namong its attributes, to</p>","headings":["THE WORKS OF AURELIUS AUGUSTINE,","BOOK FIRST."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45304-paragraph-17"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"5931d5963d91ed72e898acd4593746d50084d50a100d9e9a6b5392271d3fbd65","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_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":45304,"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> See the Editor's Preface.</p></div>","source_sha256":"d89e9a2b80bb59f394f0fb1bf313b39fab162f06af6642166d62c5912c1195f1","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45304/pg45304-images.html#Footnote_25_25","text_sha256":"a53de4a591920b6d01e32b0fbb181ffcc93f6381033c4ad035b10ecd5ca58dae","verified":false,"work_id":null}