{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Then, with reference to those who are worthy not of cleansing\r\nbut of damnation, He says, \"And I will draw near to you\r\nto judgment, and I will be a swift witness against evil-doers\r\nand against adulterers;\" and after enumerating other damnable\r\ncrimes, He adds, \"For I am the Lord your God, and I am not\r\nchanged.\" It is as if He said, Though your fault has changed\r\nyou for the worse, and my grace has changed you for the\r\nbetter, I am not changed. And he says that He Himself will\r\nbe a witness, because in His judgment He needs no witnesses;\r\nand that He will be \"swift,\" either because He is to come\r\nsuddenly, and the judgment which seemed to lag shall be very\r\nswift by His unexpected arrival, or because He will convince\r\nthe consciences of men directly and without any prolix\r\nharangue. \"For,\" as it is written, \"in the thoughts of the\r\nwicked His examination shall be conducted.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_824_824\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_824_824\">[824]</a> And the\r\napostle says, \"The thoughts accusing or else excusing, in the\r\nday in which God shall judge the hidden things of men, according\r\nto my gospel in Jesus Christ.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_825_825\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_825_825\">[825]</a> Thus, then, shall the\r\nLord be a swift witness, when He shall suddenly bring back\r\ninto the memory that which shall convince and punish the\r\nconscience.</p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK TWENTIETH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-635"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"405d65819b7a18efe5ecfc3a5b15bbc296e5cd80df18ba79316e8a96d3edc4cd","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":2,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Rom. ii. 15","verse":15,"verse_end":15}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45305-Footnote_825_825","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_825_825","source_ebook":45305,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_825_825\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_825_825\"><span class=\"label\">[825]</span></a> Rom. ii. 15, 16.</p></div>","source_sha256":"7e0ced9e70512f3cf050b53c9d548e36b70d468d875153869f95d8aff5bbb530","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45305/pg45305-images.html#Footnote_825_825","text_sha256":"98c505b3090aa9e5688eff1023690e5b1d1746f0b02bdd7dc0170b4af0c337db","verified":false,"work_id":null}