{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"5247eed2a570014bad229d8b2d1a954271087cd7becb28103e826e0f1c8b5d13","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-113","license_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/policy/license.html","note_targets":[],"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>Let these and similar answers (if any fuller and fitter answers\r\ncan be found) be given to their enemies by the redeemed family\r\nof the Lord Christ, and by the pilgrim city of King Christ.\r\nBut let this city bear in mind, that among her enemies lie hid\r\nthose who are destined to be fellow-citizens, that she may\r\nnot think it a fruitless labour to bear what they inflict as\r\nenemies until they become confessors of the faith. So, too,\r\nas long as she is a stranger in the world, the city of God has\r\nin her communion, and bound to her by the sacraments, some\r\nwho shall not eternally dwell in the lot of the saints. Of\r\nthese, some are not now recognised; others declare themselves,\r\nand do not hesitate to make common cause with\r\nour enemies in murmuring against God, whose sacramental\r\nbadge they wear. These men you may to-day see thronging\r\nthe churches with us, to-morrow crowding the theatres\r\nwith the godless. But we have the less reason to despair of\r\nthe reclamation even of such persons, if among our most\r\ndeclared enemies there are now some, unknown to themselves,\r\nwho are destined to become our friends. In truth, these two\r\ncities are entangled together in this world, and intermixed\r\nuntil the last judgment effect their separation. I now proceed\r\nto speak, as God shall help me, of the rise, progress, and end<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_47\">[Pg 47]</a></span>\r\nof these two cities; and what I write, I write for the glory of\r\nthe city of God, that, being placed in comparison with the\r\nother, it may shine with a brighter lustre.</p>","source_sha256":"d89e9a2b80bb59f394f0fb1bf313b39fab162f06af6642166d62c5912c1195f1","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45304/pg45304-images.html","text_sha256":"f78ae25d14e610a35d20bf1d277a927989c25b6c58982f12de1f89490aeb2432","verified":false,"work_id":null}