{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>But it is a worse and more damnable pride which casts\r\nabout for the shelter of an excuse even in manifest sins, as\r\nthese our first parents did, of whom the woman said, \"The\r\nserpent beguiled me, and I did eat;\" and the man said, \"The\r\nwoman whom Thou gavest to be with me, she gave me of the\r\ntree, and I did eat.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_100_100\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_100_100\">[100]</a> Here there is no word of begging\r\npardon, no word of entreaty for healing. For though they\r\ndo not, like Cain, deny that they have perpetrated the deed,\r\nyet their pride seeks to refer its wickedness to another,—the\r\nwoman's pride to the serpent, the man's to the woman. But\r\nwhere there is a plain transgression of a divine commandment,\r\nthis is rather to accuse than to excuse oneself. For\r\nthe fact that the woman sinned on the serpent's persuasion,\r\nand the man at the woman's offer, did not make the transgression\r\nless, as if there were any one whom we ought rather\r\nto believe or yield to than God.</p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK FOURTEENTH.[1]","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-61"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"ccc55370061b5d249e7ff816c5818fad32d6f78b6486bfb863d36fc9f0efe054","edition_title":"The City of God, Volume II","edition_translators":["Marcus Dods","George Wilson (Books XVII-XVIII)"],"edition_year":1871,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"GEN","chapter":3,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Gen. iii. 12","verse":12,"verse_end":12}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45305-Footnote_100_100","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_100_100","source_ebook":45305,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_100_100\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_100_100\"><span class=\"label\">[100]</span></a> Gen. iii. 12, 13.</p></div>","source_sha256":"7e0ced9e70512f3cf050b53c9d548e36b70d468d875153869f95d8aff5bbb530","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45305/pg45305-images.html#Footnote_100_100","text_sha256":"84b4d351bc36cec389fdf620a43a7dbbe0ef45ba4d4e04ff34e9513a93bca903","verified":false,"work_id":null}