{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Neither need we be surprised that God, invisible as He is,\r\nshould often have appeared visibly to the patriarchs. For\r\nas the sound which communicates the thought conceived in<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_402\">[Pg 402]</a></span>\r\nthe silence of the mind is not the thought itself, so the form\r\nby which God, invisible in His own nature, became visible,\r\nwas not God Himself. Nevertheless it is He Himself who\r\nwas seen under that form, as that thought itself is heard in\r\nthe sound of the voice; and the patriarchs recognised that,\r\nthough the bodily form was not God, they saw the invisible\r\nGod. For, though Moses conversed with God, yet he said,\r\n'If I have found grace in Thy sight, show me Thyself, that\r\nI may see and know Thee.'<a id=\"FNanchor_401_401\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_401_401\">[401]</a> And as it was fit that the law,\r\nwhich was given, not to one man or a few enlightened men,\r\nbut to the whole of a populous nation, should be accompanied\r\nby awe-inspiring signs, great marvels were wrought, by the\r\nministry of angels, before the people on the mount where the\r\nlaw was being given to them through one man, while the\r\nmultitude beheld the awful appearances. For the people of\r\nIsrael believed Moses, not as the Lacedæmonians believed their\r\nLycurgus, because he had received from Jupiter or Apollo the\r\nlaws he gave them. For when the law which enjoined the\r\nworship of one God was given to the people, marvellous signs\r\nand earthquakes, such as the divine wisdom judged sufficient,\r\nwere brought about in the sight of all, that they might know\r\nthat it was the Creator who could thus use creation to promulgate\r\nHis law.</p>","headings":["THE WORKS OF AURELIUS AUGUSTINE,","BOOK TENTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45304-paragraph-707"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"8ccbfbbba9568055a460f815b523ff0e730de5f8681f877598f55b81c86301cd","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_401_401","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_401_401","source_ebook":45304,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_401_401\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_401_401\"><span class=\"label\">[401]</span></a> Ex. xxxiii. 13.</p></div>","source_sha256":"d89e9a2b80bb59f394f0fb1bf313b39fab162f06af6642166d62c5912c1195f1","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45304/pg45304-images.html#Footnote_401_401","text_sha256":"7b1c7c5e753df63ddf3bf82bdbf6b5e0cc25fd42c24e55d1e91be4e0c9a82c79","verified":false,"work_id":null}