{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>First, we must see what it is to live after the flesh, and what\r\nto live after the spirit. For any one who either does not\r\nrecollect, or does not sufficiently weigh, the language of sacred\r\nScripture, may, on first hearing what we have said, suppose\r\nthat the Epicurean philosophers live after the flesh, because\r\nthey place man's highest good in bodily pleasure; and that\r\nthose others do so who have been of opinion that in some\r\nform or other bodily good is man's supreme good; and that\r\nthe mass of men do so who, without dogmatizing or philosophizing\r\non the subject, are so prone to lust that they cannot\r\ndelight in any pleasure save such as they receive from bodily\r\nsensations: and he may suppose that the Stoics, who place\r\nthe supreme good of men in the soul, live after the spirit; for\r\nwhat is man's soul, if not spirit? But in the sense of the\r\ndivine Scripture both are proved to live after the flesh. For\r\nby flesh it means not only the body of a terrestrial and mortal\r\nanimal, as when it says, \"All flesh is not the same flesh,\r\nbut there is one kind of flesh of men, another flesh of\r\nbeasts, another of fishes, another of birds,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_2_2\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_2_2\">[2]</a> but it uses this\r\nword in many other significations; and among these various\r\nusages, a frequent one is to use flesh for man himself, the\r\nnature of man taking the part for the whole, as in the words,\r\n\"By the deeds of the law there shall no flesh be justified;\"<a id=\"FNanchor_3_3\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_3_3\">[3]</a>\r\nfor what does he mean here by \"no flesh\" but \"no man?\"\r\nAnd this, indeed, he shortly after says more plainly: \"No man\r\nshall be justified by the law;\"<a id=\"FNanchor_4_4\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_4_4\">[4]</a> and in the Epistle to the\r\nGalatians, \"Knowing that a man is not justified by the<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_3\">[Pg 3]</a></span>\r\nworks of the law.\" And so we understand the words, \"And\r\nthe Word was made flesh,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_5_5\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_5_5\">[5]</a>—that is, man, which some not\r\naccepting in its right sense, have supposed that Christ had not\r\na human soul.<a id=\"FNanchor_6_6\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_6_6\">[6]</a> For as the whole is used for the part in the\r\nwords of Mary Magdalene in the Gospel, \"They have taken\r\naway my Lord, and I know not where they have laid Him,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_7_7\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_7_7\">[7]</a>\r\nby which she meant only the flesh of Christ, which she supposed\r\nhad been taken from the tomb where it had been\r\nburied, so the part is used for the whole, flesh being named,\r\nwhile man is referred to, as in the quotations above cited.</p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK FOURTEENTH.[1]","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-20"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"ff6b8cc0e8ef7fa4d220c54641373ff37a217a110f0ab4a8c32d76f7e3c567a1","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_6_6","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_6_6","source_ebook":45305,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_6_6\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_6_6\"><span class=\"label\">[6]</span></a> The Apollinarians.</p></div>","source_sha256":"7e0ced9e70512f3cf050b53c9d548e36b70d468d875153869f95d8aff5bbb530","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45305/pg45305-images.html#Footnote_6_6","text_sha256":"8c05284dd15fe50a6272e72a521bde475807957e0f5f025bcd21790da217f4b7","verified":false,"work_id":null}