{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>For these vain, deceitful, pernicious, sacrilegious things did\r\nthe Egyptian Hermes sorrow, because he knew that the time\r\nwas coming when they should be removed. But his sorrow\r\nwas as impudently expressed as his knowledge was imprudently\r\nobtained; for it was not the Holy Spirit who revealed these\r\nthings to him, as He had done to the holy prophets, who, foreseeing\r\nthese things, said with exultation, \"If a man shall make\r\ngods, lo, they are no gods;\"<a id=\"FNanchor_317_317\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_317_317\">[317]</a> and in another place, \"And it shall\r\ncome to pass in that day, saith the Lord, that I will cut off\r\nthe names of the idols out of the land, and they shall no more\r\nbe remembered.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_318_318\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_318_318\">[318]</a> But the holy Isaiah prophesies expressly<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_342\">[Pg 342]</a></span>\r\nconcerning Egypt in reference to this matter, saying, \"And the\r\nidols of Egypt shall be moved at His presence, and their heart\r\nshall be overcome in them,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_319_319\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_319_319\">[319]</a> and other things to the same effect.\r\nAnd with the prophet are to be classed those who rejoiced that\r\nthat which they knew was to come had actually come,—as\r\nSimeon, or Anna, who immediately recognised Jesus when He\r\nwas born, or Elisabeth, who in the Spirit recognised Him\r\nwhen He was conceived, or Peter, who said by the revelation\r\nof the Father, \"Thou art Christ, the Son of the living God.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_320_320\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_320_320\">[320]</a>\r\nBut to this Egyptian those spirits indicated the time of their\r\nown destruction, who also, when the Lord was present in the\r\nflesh, said with trembling, \"Art Thou come hither to destroy\r\nus before the time?\"<a id=\"FNanchor_321_321\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_321_321\">[321]</a> meaning by destruction before the time,\r\neither that very destruction which they expected to come,\r\nbut which they did not think would come so suddenly as it\r\nappeared to have done, or only that destruction which consisted\r\nin their being brought into contempt by being made\r\nknown. And, indeed, this was a destruction before the time,\r\nthat is, before the time of judgment, when they are to be\r\npunished with eternal damnation, together with all men who\r\nare implicated in their wickedness, as the true religion declares,\r\nwhich neither errs nor leads into error; for it is not\r\nlike him who, blown hither and thither by every wind of\r\ndoctrine, and mixing true things with things which are false,\r\nbewails as about to perish a religion which he afterwards\r\nconfesses to be error.</p>","headings":["THE WORKS OF AURELIUS AUGUSTINE,","BOOK EIGHTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45304-paragraph-612"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"966cecca51fddb9cef11e7c5166b8bd4dfb0a675334969b62911d814321a1dae","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":[{"book":"MAT","chapter":16,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Matt. xvi. 16","verse":16,"verse_end":16}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45304-Footnote_320_320","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_320_320","source_ebook":45304,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_320_320\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_320_320\"><span class=\"label\">[320]</span></a> Matt. xvi. 16.</p></div>","source_sha256":"d89e9a2b80bb59f394f0fb1bf313b39fab162f06af6642166d62c5912c1195f1","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45304/pg45304-images.html#Footnote_320_320","text_sha256":"536e65159aa493cb477e1b691c7c717a6238399a4c4e8c5d4a5546af0a81e5bf","verified":false,"work_id":null}