{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>The right will is, therefore, well-directed love, and the\r\nwrong will is ill-directed love. Love, then, yearning to have\r\nwhat is loved, is desire; and having and enjoying it, is joy;\r\nfleeing what is opposed to it, it is fear; and feeling what is\r\nopposed to it, when it has befallen it, it is sadness. Now\r\nthese motions are evil if the love is evil; good if the love is\r\ngood. What we assert let us prove from Scripture. The\r\napostle \"desires to depart, and to be with Christ.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_30_30\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_30_30\">[30]</a> And,\r\n\"My soul desired to long for Thy judgments;\"<a id=\"FNanchor_31_31\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_31_31\">[31]</a> or if it is\r\nmore appropriate to say, \"My soul longed to desire Thy judgments.\"\r\nAnd, \"The desire of wisdom bringeth to a kingdom.\"<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_12\">[Pg 12]</a></span><a id=\"FNanchor_32_32\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_32_32\">[32]</a>\r\nYet there has always obtained the usage of understanding desire\r\nand concupiscence in a bad sense if the object be not defined.\r\nBut joy is used in a good sense: \"Be glad in the Lord, and\r\nrejoice, ye righteous.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_33_33\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_33_33\">[33]</a> And, \"Thou hast put gladness in my\r\nheart.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_34_34\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_34_34\">[34]</a> And, \"Thou wilt fill me with joy with Thy countenance.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_35_35\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_35_35\">[35]</a>\r\nFear is used in a good sense by the apostle when\r\nhe says, \"Work out your salvation with fear and trembling.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_36_36\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_36_36\">[36]</a>\r\nAnd, \"Be not high-minded, but fear.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_37_37\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_37_37\">[37]</a> And, \"I fear, lest by\r\nany means, as the serpent beguiled Eve through his subtilty,\r\nso your minds should be corrupted from the simplicity that is\r\nin Christ.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_38_38\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_38_38\">[38]</a> But with respect to sadness, which Cicero prefers\r\nto call sickness (<i>ægritudo</i>), and Virgil pain (<i>dolor</i>) (as he\r\nsays, \"<i>Dolent gaudentque</i>\"<a id=\"FNanchor_39_39\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_39_39\">[39]</a>), but which I prefer to call sorrow,\r\nbecause sickness and pain are more commonly used to express\r\nbodily suffering,—with respect to this emotion, I say, the question\r\nwhether it can be used in a good sense is more difficult.</p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK FOURTEENTH.[1]","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-38"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"0741edda37ac8aa735476bcc6671ab7910f44ab8fab3f617e4c4915344708f42","edition_title":"The City of God, Volume II","edition_translators":["Marcus Dods","George Wilson (Books XVII-XVIII)"],"edition_year":1871,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"ROM","chapter":11,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Rom. xi. 20","verse":20,"verse_end":20}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45305-Footnote_37_37","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_37_37","source_ebook":45305,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_37_37\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_37_37\"><span class=\"label\">[37]</span></a> Rom. xi. 20.</p></div>","source_sha256":"7e0ced9e70512f3cf050b53c9d548e36b70d468d875153869f95d8aff5bbb530","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45305/pg45305-images.html#Footnote_37_37","text_sha256":"43247beecf6cea8404f0b60a46ef3416a9e9db76b2a0e12f41b5227bd8abca91","verified":false,"work_id":null}