{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>From this brief sketch, it will be seen that though the\r\naccompanying work is essentially an Apology, the Apologetic\r\nof Augustine can be no mere rehabilitation of the somewhat\r\nthreadbare, if not effete, arguments of Justin and Tertullian.<a id=\"FNanchor_7_7\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_7_7\">[7]</a>\r\nIn fact, as Augustine considered what was required of him,—to\r\nexpound the Christian faith, and justify it to enlightened<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_x\">[Pg x]</a></span>\r\nmen; to distinguish it from, and show its superiority to, all\r\nthose forms of truth, philosophical or popular, which were\r\nthen striving for the mastery, or at least for standing-room;\r\nto set before the world's eye a vision of glory that might win\r\nthe regard even of men who were dazzled by the fascinating\r\nsplendour of a world-wide empire,—he recognised that a task\r\nwas laid before him to which even his powers might prove\r\nunequal,—a task certainly which would afford ample scope for\r\nhis learning, dialectic, philosophical grasp and acumen, eloquence,\r\nand faculty of exposition.</p>","headings":["THE WORKS OF AURELIUS AUGUSTINE,","EDITOR'S PREFACE."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45304-paragraph-5"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"f810b7467340afe0ee1caa5f5fc2e363ca8e1da34c2699aac62dc5ace6b2d6a1","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_7_7","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_7_7","source_ebook":45304,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_7_7\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_7_7\"><span class=\"label\">[7]</span></a> \"Hitherto the Apologies had been framed to meet particular exigencies:\r\nthey were either brief and pregnant statements of the Christian doctrines; refutations\r\nof prevalent calumnies; invectives against the follies and crimes of Paganism; or confutations of anti-Christian works like those of Celsus, Porphyry,\r\nor Julian, closely following their course of argument, and rarely expanding\r\ninto general and comprehensive views of the great conflict.\"—<span class=\"smcap\">Milman</span>,\r\n<i>History of Christianity</i>, iii. c. 10. We are not acquainted with any more\r\ncomplete preface to the <i>City of God</i> than is contained in the two or three pages\r\nwhich Milman has devoted to this subject.</p></div>","source_sha256":"d89e9a2b80bb59f394f0fb1bf313b39fab162f06af6642166d62c5912c1195f1","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45304/pg45304-images.html#Footnote_7_7","text_sha256":"a522bc1b6d0c4c66edf980d36719d17270f4584495b50b26bfdf4a6733932c87","verified":false,"work_id":null}