{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>yet we believe quite otherwise. For the corruption of the\r\nbody, which weighs down the soul, is not the cause but the\r\npunishment of the first sin; and it was not the corruptible\r\nflesh that made the soul sinful, but the sinful soul that made\r\nthe flesh corruptible. And though from this corruption of\r\nthe flesh there arise certain incitements to vice, and indeed\r\nvicious desires, yet we must not attribute to the flesh all\r\nthe vices of a wicked life, in case we thereby clear the devil\r\nof all these, for he has no flesh. For though we cannot call\r\nthe devil a fornicator or drunkard, or ascribe to him any\r\nsensual indulgence (though he is the secret instigator and\r\nprompter of those who sin in these ways), yet he is exceedingly\r\nproud and envious. And this viciousness has so possessed\r\nhim, that on account of it he is reserved in chains of\r\ndarkness to everlasting punishment.<a id=\"FNanchor_14_14\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_14_14\">[14]</a> Now these vices, which\r\nhave dominion over the devil, the apostle attributes to the\r\nflesh, which certainly the devil has not. For he says\r\n\"hatred, variance, emulations, strife, envying\" are the works\r\nof the flesh; and of all these evils pride is the origin and\r\nhead, and it rules in the devil though he has no flesh. For\r\nwho shows more hatred to the saints? who is more at<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_6\">[Pg 6]</a></span>\r\nvariance with them? who more envious, bitter, and jealous?\r\nAnd since he exhibits all these works, though he has no flesh,\r\nhow are they works of the flesh, unless because they are the\r\nworks of man, who is, as I said, spoken of under the name of\r\nflesh? For it is not by having flesh, which the devil has not,\r\nbut by living according to himself,—that is, according to\r\nman,—that man became like the devil. For the devil too,\r\nwished to live according to himself when he did not abide in\r\nthe truth; so that when he lied, this was not of God, but of\r\nhimself, who is not only a liar, but the father of lies, he being\r\nthe first who lied, and the originator of lying as of sin.</p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK FOURTEENTH.[1]","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-26"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"9e35bd9eef477e9b3b980460108fcb8d6a2a505f82a860c3bbd2cb8cac43e48d","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_14_14","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_14_14","source_ebook":45305,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_14_14\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_14_14\"><span class=\"label\">[14]</span></a> On the punishment of the devil, see the <i>De Agone Christi</i>, 3-5, and <i>De\r\nNat. Boni</i>, 33.</p></div>","source_sha256":"7e0ced9e70512f3cf050b53c9d548e36b70d468d875153869f95d8aff5bbb530","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45305/pg45305-images.html#Footnote_14_14","text_sha256":"1d8819737760e1be9836080b7384a4ff7f3639026389cd94a8e755048119473e","verified":false,"work_id":null}