{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Far be it, then, from us to suppose that our first parents in\r\nParadise felt that lust which caused them afterwards to blush\r\nand hide their nakedness, or that by its means they should\r\nhave fulfilled the benediction of God, \"Increase and multiply\r\nand replenish the earth;\"<a id=\"FNanchor_113_113\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_113_113\">[113]</a> for it was after sin that lust\r\nbegan. It was after sin that our nature, having lost the power\r\nit had over the whole body, but not having lost all shame,\r\nperceived, noticed, blushed at, and covered it. But that\r\nblessing upon marriage, which encouraged them to increase\r\nand multiply and replenish the earth, though, it continued\r\neven after they had sinned, was yet given before they sinned,\r\nin order that the procreation of children might be recognised\r\nas part of the glory of marriage, and not of the punishment of\r\nsin. But now, men being ignorant of the blessedness of Paradise,\r\nsuppose that children could not have been begotten there\r\nin any other way than they know them to be begotten now,\r\n<i>i.e.</i> by lust, at which even honourable marriage blushes; some\r\nnot simply rejecting, but sceptically deriding the divine Scriptures,\r\nin which we read that our first parents, after they sinned,\r\nwere ashamed of their nakedness, and covered it; while others,\r\nthough they accept and honour Scripture, yet conceive that\r\nthis expression, \"Increase and multiply,\" refers not to carnal\r\nfecundity, because a similar expression is used of the soul in\r\nthe words, \"Thou wilt multiply me with strength in my\r\nsoul;\"<a id=\"FNanchor_114_114\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_114_114\">[114]</a> and so, too, in the words which follow in Genesis,\r\n\"And replenish the earth, and subdue it,\" they understand by\r\nthe earth the body which the soul fills with its presence, and\r\nwhich it rules over when it is multiplied in strength. And\r\nthey hold that children could no more then than now be\r\nbegotten without lust, which, after sin, was kindled, observed,\r\nblushed for, and covered; and even that children would not\r\nhave been born in Paradise, but only outside of it, as in fact\r\nit turned out. For it was after they were expelled from it\r\nthat they came together to beget children, and begot them.</p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK FOURTEENTH.[1]","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-76"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"f1274da3ee8154e1ed09fab12be37232f5bcb7025f78fc24a3c9df0c297aff09","edition_title":"The City of God, Volume II","edition_translators":["Marcus Dods","George Wilson (Books XVII-XVIII)"],"edition_year":1871,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"PSA","chapter":138,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Ps. cxxxviii. 3","verse":3,"verse_end":3}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45305-Footnote_114_114","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_114_114","source_ebook":45305,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_114_114\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_114_114\"><span class=\"label\">[114]</span></a> Ps. cxxxviii. 3.</p></div>","source_sha256":"7e0ced9e70512f3cf050b53c9d548e36b70d468d875153869f95d8aff5bbb530","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45305/pg45305-images.html#Footnote_114_114","text_sha256":"09622afc04d399a48188bed3a020dd6109bc776c54474956577147ab20990476","verified":false,"work_id":null}