{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"33b5c551c90f909c32295f4f7ed4568841e2c792f8e8d51003d0bd305cadaca1","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":["THE WORKS OF AURELIUS AUGUSTINE,","BOOK FIRST."],"id":"pg45304-paragraph-100","license_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/policy/license.html","note_targets":["Footnote_78_78","Footnote_79_79"],"public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"original-paragraph-unclassified","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":null,"source_ebook":45304,"source_html":"<p>The whole family of God, most high and most true, has\r\ntherefore a consolation of its own,—a consolation which cannot\r\ndeceive, and which has in it a surer hope than the tottering\r\nand falling affairs of earth can afford. They will not refuse\r\nthe discipline of this temporal life, in which they are schooled\r\nfor life eternal; nor will they lament their experience of it,\r\nfor the good things of earth they use as pilgrims who are not\r\ndetained by them, and its ills either prove or improve them.\r\nAs for those who insult over them in their trials, and when\r\nills befall them say, \"Where is thy God?\"<a id=\"FNanchor_78_78\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_78_78\">[78]</a> we may ask them\r\nwhere their gods are when they suffer the very calamities for<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_42\">[Pg 42]</a></span>\r\nthe sake of avoiding which they worship their gods, or maintain\r\nthey ought to be worshipped; for the family of Christ is\r\nfurnished with its reply: our God is everywhere present,\r\nwholly everywhere; not confined to any place. He can be\r\npresent unperceived, and be absent without moving; when\r\nHe exposes us to adversities, it is either to prove our perfections\r\nor correct our imperfections; and in return for our\r\npatient endurance of the sufferings of time, He reserves for us\r\nan everlasting reward. But who are you, that we should\r\ndeign to speak with you even about your own gods, much\r\nless about our God, who is \"to be feared above all gods? For\r\nall the gods of the nations are idols; but the Lord made the\r\nheavens.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_79_79\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_79_79\">[79]</a></p>","source_sha256":"d89e9a2b80bb59f394f0fb1bf313b39fab162f06af6642166d62c5912c1195f1","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45304/pg45304-images.html","text_sha256":"43bd888c4dbd0d5269e6c4c021b872c44d624f6d3266419f2051aa1c6d08dbc2","verified":false,"work_id":null}