{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>As regards the uncertainty about everything which Varro\r\nalleges to be the differentiating characteristic of the New\r\nAcademy, the city of God thoroughly detests such doubt as\r\nmadness. Regarding matters which it apprehends by the\r\nmind and reason it has most absolute certainty, although its\r\nknowledge is limited because of the corruptible body pressing\r\ndown the mind, for, as the apostle says, \"We know in part.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_650_650\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_650_650\">[650]</a>\r\nIt believes also the evidence of the senses which the mind\r\nuses by aid of the body; for [if one who trusts his senses is\r\nsometimes deceived], he is more wretchedly deceived who\r\nfancies he should never trust them. It believes also the\r\nHoly Scriptures, old and new, which we call canonical, and\r\nwhich are the source of the faith by which the just lives,<a id=\"FNanchor_651_651\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_651_651\">[651]</a> and\r\nby which we walk without doubting whilst we are absent\r\nfrom the Lord.<a id=\"FNanchor_652_652\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_652_652\">[652]</a> So long as this faith remains inviolate and\r\nfirm, we may without blame entertain doubts regarding some<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_329\">[Pg 329]</a></span>\r\nthings which we have neither perceived by sense nor by\r\nreason, and which have not been revealed to us by the\r\ncanonical Scriptures, nor come to our knowledge through\r\nwitnesses whom it is absurd to disbelieve.</p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK NINETEENTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-531"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"11cd77a45f6fd6814af032efaf5620bb2d4f781f462418d92d67e0990d1be79e","edition_title":"The City of God, Volume II","edition_translators":["Marcus Dods","George Wilson (Books XVII-XVIII)"],"edition_year":1871,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"1CO","chapter":13,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"1 Cor. xiii. 9","verse":9,"verse_end":9}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45305-Footnote_650_650","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_650_650","source_ebook":45305,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_650_650\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_650_650\"><span class=\"label\">[650]</span></a> 1 Cor. xiii. 9.</p></div>","source_sha256":"7e0ced9e70512f3cf050b53c9d548e36b70d468d875153869f95d8aff5bbb530","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45305/pg45305-images.html#Footnote_650_650","text_sha256":"710ea2b1047b5d07ea6d7f4fbaddb90275b51824b01d482064ec777245c034df","verified":false,"work_id":null}