{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>It is for this reason, then, that the nature of the Trinity is\r\ncalled simple, because it has not anything which it can lose,\r\nand because it is not one thing and its contents another, as a\r\ncup and the liquor, or a body and its colour, or the air and\r\nthe light or heat of it, or a mind and its wisdom. For none\r\nof these is what it has: the cup is not liquor, nor the body\r\ncolour, nor the air light and heat, nor the mind wisdom. And\r\nhence they can be deprived of what they have, and can be\r\nturned or changed into other qualities and states, so that the\r\ncup may be emptied of the liquid of which it is full, the body\r\nbe discoloured, the air darken, the mind grow silly. The incorruptible\r\nbody which is promised to the saints in the resurrection\r\ncannot, indeed, lose its quality of incorruption, but\r\nthe bodily substance and the quality of incorruption are not\r\nthe same thing. For the quality of incorruption resides\r\nentire in each several part, not greater in one and less in<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_449\">[Pg 449]</a></span>\r\nanother; for no part is more incorruptible than another. The\r\nbody, indeed, is itself greater in whole than in part; and one\r\npart of it is larger, another smaller, yet is not the larger more\r\nincorruptible than the smaller. The body, then, which is not\r\nin each of its parts a whole body, is one thing; incorruptibility,\r\nwhich is throughout complete, is another thing;—for\r\nevery part of the incorruptible body, however unequal to the\r\nrest otherwise, is equally incorrupt. For the hand, <i>e.g.</i>, is\r\nnot more incorrupt than the finger because it is larger than\r\nthe finger; so, though finger and hand are unequal, their incorruptibility\r\nis equal. Thus, although incorruptibility is\r\ninseparable from an incorruptible body, yet the substance of\r\nthe body is one thing, the quality of incorruption another.\r\nAnd therefore the body is not what it has. The soul itself,\r\ntoo, though it be always wise (as it will be eternally when it\r\nis redeemed), will be so by participating in the unchangeable\r\nwisdom, which it is not; for though the air be never robbed\r\nof the light that is shed abroad in it, it is not on that account\r\nthe same thing as the light. I do not mean that the soul is\r\nair, as has been supposed by some who could not conceive a\r\nspiritual nature;<a id=\"FNanchor_463_463\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_463_463\">[463]</a> but, with much dissimilarity, the two things\r\nhave a kind of likeness, which makes it suitable to say that\r\nthe immaterial soul is illumined with the immaterial light of\r\nthe simple wisdom of God, as the material air is irradiated\r\nwith material light, and that, as the air, when deprived of\r\nthis light, grows dark, (for material darkness is nothing else\r\nthan air wanting light,<a id=\"FNanchor_464_464\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_464_464\">[464]</a>) so the soul, deprived of the light of\r\nwisdom, grows dark.</p>","headings":["THE WORKS OF AURELIUS AUGUSTINE,","BOOK ELEVENTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45304-paragraph-775"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"7f3d59d444263f3c37f90d977013e732d08c1b80e3af6227ff768ed6e5d27829","edition_title":"The City of God, Volume I","edition_translators":["Marcus Dods","George Wilson (Book IV)","J. 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