{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>These miracles, and many others of the same nature, which\r\nit were tedious to mention, were wrought for the purpose of\r\ncommending the worship of the one true God, and prohibiting\r\nthe worship of a multitude of false gods. Moreover, they were\r\nwrought by simple faith and godly confidence, not by the incantations\r\nand charms composed under the influence of a\r\ncriminal tampering with the unseen world, of an art which\r\nthey call either magic, or by the more abominable title necromancy,<a id=\"FNanchor_398_398\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_398_398\">[398]</a>\r\nor the more honourable designation theurgy; for they\r\nwish to discriminate between those whom the people call\r\nmagicians, who practise necromancy, and are addicted to illicit\r\narts and condemned, and those others who seem to them to\r\nbe worthy of praise for their practice of theurgy,—the truth,\r\nhowever, being that both classes are the slaves of the deceitful\r\nrites of the demons whom they invoke under the names\r\nof angels.</p>","headings":["THE WORKS OF AURELIUS AUGUSTINE,","BOOK TENTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45304-paragraph-697"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"524aec1690585066c16971b9c637cd18d4134a952b004bd8e0d59ebe59cb5b32","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_398_398","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_398_398","source_ebook":45304,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_398_398\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_398_398\"><span class=\"label\">[398]</span></a> <i>Goetia.</i></p></div>","source_sha256":"d89e9a2b80bb59f394f0fb1bf313b39fab162f06af6642166d62c5912c1195f1","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45304/pg45304-images.html#Footnote_398_398","text_sha256":"1f058e61569d4578b9037df5b6f49e2145b0f99851f041824682badec78157f6","verified":false,"work_id":null}