{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Wherefore it may very well be, and it is thoroughly credible,\r\nthat we shall in the future world see the material forms\r\nof the new heavens and the new earth in such a way that we\r\nshall most distinctly recognise God everywhere present and\r\ngoverning all things, material as well as spiritual, and shall\r\nsee Him, not as now we understand the invisible things of\r\nGod, by the things which are made,<a id=\"FNanchor_1046_1046\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1046_1046\">[1046]</a> and see Him darkly, as<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_540\">[Pg 540]</a></span>\r\nin a mirror, and in part, and rather by faith than by bodily\r\nvision of material appearances, but by means of the bodies we\r\nshall wear and which we shall see wherever we turn our eyes.\r\nAs we do not believe, but see that the living men around us\r\nwho are exercising vital functions are alive, though we cannot\r\nsee their life without their bodies, but see it most distinctly by\r\nmeans of their bodies, so, wherever we shall look with those\r\nspiritual eyes of our future bodies, we shall then, too, by\r\nmeans of bodily substances behold God, though a spirit, ruling\r\nall things. Either, therefore, the eyes shall possess some\r\nquality similar to that of the mind, by which they may be\r\nable to discern spiritual things, and among these God,—a\r\nsupposition for which it is difficult or even impossible to find\r\nany support in Scripture,—or, which is more easy to comprehend,\r\nGod will be so known by us, and shall be so much before\r\nus, that we shall see Him by the spirit in ourselves, in one\r\nanother, in Himself, in the new heavens and the new earth, in\r\nevery created thing which shall then exist; and also by the\r\nbody we shall see Him in every body which the keen vision\r\nof the eye of the spiritual body shall reach. Our thoughts\r\nalso shall be visible to all, for then shall be fulfilled the words\r\nof the apostle, \"Judge nothing before the time, until the Lord\r\ncome, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness,\r\nand will make manifest the thoughts of the heart, and\r\nthen shall every one have praise of God.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_1047_1047\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1047_1047\">[1047]</a></p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK TWENTY-SECOND.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-846"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"331fed57a2441e02f5252851fef339da0af8b98f9cb20b930d13db1a0822d911","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":1,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Rom. i. 20","verse":20,"verse_end":20}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45305-Footnote_1046_1046","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_1046_1046","source_ebook":45305,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_1046_1046\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_1046_1046\"><span class=\"label\">[1046]</span></a> Rom. i. 20.</p></div>","source_sha256":"7e0ced9e70512f3cf050b53c9d548e36b70d468d875153869f95d8aff5bbb530","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45305/pg45305-images.html#Footnote_1046_1046","text_sha256":"6c779de56fcac133f24438b6c36c7866566073e4229955385b82715f1f97a68d","verified":false,"work_id":null}