{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>After that He adds the words, \"Verily, verily, I say unto\r\nyou, The hour is coming, and now is, when the dead shall\r\nhear the voice of the Son of God; and they that hear shall\r\nlive. For as the Father hath life in Himself; so hath He\r\ngiven to the Son to have life in Himself.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_694_694\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_694_694\">[694]</a> As yet He does\r\nnot speak of the second resurrection, that is, the resurrection\r\nof the body, which shall be in the end, but of the first, which\r\nnow is. It is for the sake of making this distinction that He\r\nsays, \"The hour is coming, and now is.\" Now this resurrection\r\nregards not the body, but the soul. For souls, too, have a\r\ndeath of their own in wickedness and sins, whereby they are\r\nthe dead of whom the same lips say, \"Suffer the dead to bury<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_354\">[Pg 354]</a></span>\r\ntheir dead,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_695_695\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_695_695\">[695]</a>—that is, let those who are dead in soul bury them\r\nthat are dead in body. It is of these dead, then—the dead\r\nin ungodliness and wickedness—that He says, \"The hour is\r\ncoming, and now is, when the dead shall hear the voice of the\r\nSon of God; and they that hear shall live.\" \"They that hear,\"\r\nthat is, they who obey, believe, and persevere to the end.\r\nHere no difference is made between the good and the bad.\r\nFor it is good for all men to hear His voice and live, by\r\npassing to the life of godliness from the death of ungodliness.\r\nOf this death the Apostle Paul says, \"Therefore all are dead,\r\nand He died for all, that they which live should not henceforth\r\nlive unto themselves, but unto Him which died for them and\r\nrose again.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_696_696\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_696_696\">[696]</a> Thus all, without one exception, were dead in\r\nsins, whether original or voluntary sins, sins of ignorance, or\r\nsins committed against knowledge; and for all the dead there\r\ndied the one only person who lived, that is, who had no sin\r\nwhatever, in order that they who live by the remission of\r\ntheir sins should live, not to themselves, but to Him who\r\ndied for all, for our sins, and rose again for our justification,\r\nthat we, believing in Him who justifies the ungodly, and\r\nbeing justified from ungodliness or quickened from death,\r\nmay be able to attain to the first resurrection which now is.\r\nFor in this first resurrection none have a part save those who\r\nshall be eternally blessed; but in the second, of which He\r\ngoes on to speak, all, as we shall learn, have a part, both the\r\nblessed and the wretched. The one is the resurrection of\r\nmercy, the other of judgment. And therefore it is written in\r\nthe psalm, \"I will sing of mercy and of judgment: unto Thee,\r\nO Lord, will I sing.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_697_697\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_697_697\">[697]</a></p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK TWENTIETH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-573"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"14415208b2f6e3bcda2c08e53116b8f892f85feb24c3ce2f7ce85fd6c78f259a","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_696_696","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_696_696","source_ebook":45305,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_696_696\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_696_696\"><span class=\"label\">[696]</span></a> Cor. v. 14, 15.</p></div>","source_sha256":"7e0ced9e70512f3cf050b53c9d548e36b70d468d875153869f95d8aff5bbb530","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45305/pg45305-images.html#Footnote_696_696","text_sha256":"cbefd16a8449796db3e0c7d4da1db941a0f640d51b769915ec88ea44dc94a4e5","verified":false,"work_id":null}