{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Of moral and spiritual evils, which are above all others to\r\nbe deprecated, I think enough has already been said to\r\nshow that the false gods took no steps to prevent the people\r\nwho worshipped them from being overwhelmed by such calamities,\r\nbut rather aggravated the ruin. I see I must now\r\nspeak of those evils which alone are dreaded by the heathen—famine,\r\npestilence, war, pillage, captivity, massacre, and the\r\nlike calamities, already enumerated in the first book. For\r\nevil men account those things alone evil which do not make\r\nmen evil; neither do they blush to praise good things, and\r\nyet to remain evil among the good things they praise. It\r\ngrieves them more to own a bad house than a bad life, as if\r\nit were man's greatest good to have everything good but himself.\r\nBut not even such evils as were alone dreaded by the\r\nheathen were warded off by their gods, even when they were\r\nmost unrestrictedly worshipped. For in various times and\r\nplaces before the advent of our Redeemer, the human race was\r\ncrushed with numberless and sometimes incredible calamities;\r\nand at that time what gods but those did the world worship,\r\nif you except the one nation of the Hebrews, and, beyond them,\r\nsuch individuals as the most secret and most just judgment\r\nof God counted worthy of divine grace?<a id=\"FNanchor_115_115\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_115_115\">[115]</a> But that I may<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_92\">[Pg 92]</a></span>\r\nnot be prolix, I will be silent regarding the heavy calamities\r\nthat have been suffered by any other nations, and will speak\r\nonly of what happened to Rome and the Roman empire, by\r\nwhich I mean Rome properly so called, and those lands which\r\nalready, before the coming of Christ, had by alliance or conquest\r\nbecome, as it were, members of the body of the state.</p>","headings":["THE WORKS OF AURELIUS AUGUSTINE,","BOOK THIRD.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45304-paragraph-192"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"fde5245ba96e103e407e26cfdae7a358c6b91ef473091ecd166b521c57b38cc2","edition_title":"The City of God, Volume I","edition_translators":["Marcus Dods","George Wilson (Book IV)","J. J. Smith (Books V-VIII)"],"edition_year":1871,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg45304-Footnote_115_115","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_115_115","source_ebook":45304,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_115_115\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_115_115\"><span class=\"label\">[115]</span></a> Compare Aug. <i>Epist. ad Deogratias</i>, 102, 13; and <i>De Præd. Sanct.</i> 19.</p></div>","source_sha256":"d89e9a2b80bb59f394f0fb1bf313b39fab162f06af6642166d62c5912c1195f1","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45304/pg45304-images.html#Footnote_115_115","text_sha256":"303fbd207f8f0973265b257618d0e50d9c190f2987a6a610bc49a42e6abf6cb8","verified":false,"work_id":null}