{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>The manner in which Cicero addresses himself to the task\r\nof refuting the Stoics, shows that he did not think he could\r\neffect anything against them in argument unless he had first\r\ndemolished divination.<a id=\"FNanchor_189_189\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_189_189\">[189]</a> And this he attempts to accomplish\r\nby denying that there is any knowledge of future things,\r\nand maintains with all his might that there is no such knowledge\r\neither in God or man, and that there is no prediction\r\nof events. Thus he both denies the foreknowledge of God,\r\nand attempts by vain arguments, and by opposing to himself\r\ncertain oracles very easy to be refuted, to overthrow all prophecy,\r\neven such as is clearer than the light (though even\r\nthese oracles are not refuted by him).</p>","headings":["THE WORKS OF AURELIUS AUGUSTINE,","BOOK FIFTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45304-paragraph-366"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"9b0103da5c463474062e1f286c7749512871849c838a994d2ec99b42ade454a2","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_189_189","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_189_189","source_ebook":45304,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_189_189\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_189_189\"><span class=\"label\">[189]</span></a> <i>De Divinat.</i> ii.</p></div>","source_sha256":"d89e9a2b80bb59f394f0fb1bf313b39fab162f06af6642166d62c5912c1195f1","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45304/pg45304-images.html#Footnote_189_189","text_sha256":"249d0d1faf95828677a84516924ebbbe7513b2c1f7db405c4c19bbe99053be58","verified":false,"work_id":null}