{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>When, therefore, man lives according to man, not according\r\nto God, he is like the devil. Because not even an angel\r\nmight live according to an angel, but only according to God,\r\nif he was to abide in the truth, and speak God's truth and\r\nnot his own lie. And of man, too, the same apostle says in\r\nanother place, \"If the truth of God hath more abounded\r\nthrough my lie;\"<a id=\"FNanchor_15_15\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_15_15\">[15]</a>—\"my lie,\" he said, and \"God's truth.\"\r\nWhen, then, a man lives according to the truth, he lives not\r\naccording to himself, but according to God; for He was\r\nGod who said, \"I am the truth.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_16_16\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_16_16\">[16]</a> When, therefore, man\r\nlives according to himself,—that is, according to man, not\r\naccording to God,—assuredly he lives according to a lie; not\r\nthat man himself is a lie, for God is his author and creator,\r\nwho is certainly not the author and creator of a lie, but\r\nbecause man was made upright, that he might not live according\r\nto himself, but according to Him that made him,—in other\r\nwords, that he might do His will and not his own; and not to\r\nlive as he was made to live, that is a lie. For he certainly\r\ndesires to be blessed even by not living so that he may be\r\nblessed. And what is a lie if this desire be not? Wherefore\r\nit is not without meaning said that all sin is a lie. For\r\nno sin is committed save by that desire or will by which we\r\ndesire that it be well with us, and shrink from it being ill\r\nwith us. That, therefore, is a lie which we do in order that\r\nit may be well with us, but which makes us more miserable<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_7\">[Pg 7]</a></span>\r\nthan we were. And why is this, but because the source of\r\nman's happiness lies only in God, whom he abandons when\r\nhe sins, and not in himself, by living according to whom he\r\nsins?</p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK FOURTEENTH.[1]","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-28"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"95cc7dadbe1a3dc79d16a657fbdcb74bcfda76fb8cdb4a521831950c64e69a32","edition_title":"The City of God, Volume II","edition_translators":["Marcus Dods","George Wilson (Books XVII-XVIII)"],"edition_year":1871,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"JHN","chapter":14,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"John xiv. 6","verse":6,"verse_end":6}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45305-Footnote_16_16","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_16_16","source_ebook":45305,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_16_16\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_16_16\"><span class=\"label\">[16]</span></a> John xiv. 6.</p></div>","source_sha256":"7e0ced9e70512f3cf050b53c9d548e36b70d468d875153869f95d8aff5bbb530","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45305/pg45305-images.html#Footnote_16_16","text_sha256":"e021e3dfc3d6ad06ced9b485b5e326ec8239a5e97fa13d0c74a503808211aad0","verified":false,"work_id":null}