{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>In this wicked world, in these evil days, when the Church\r\nmeasures her future loftiness by her present humility, and is\r\nexercised by goading fears, tormenting sorrows, disquieting\r\nlabours, and dangerous temptations, when she soberly rejoices,\r\nrejoicing only in hope, there are many reprobate mingled with\r\nthe good, and both are gathered together by the gospel as in<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_282\">[Pg 282]</a></span>\r\na drag net;<a id=\"FNanchor_596_596\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_596_596\">[596]</a> and in this world, as in a sea, both swim enclosed\r\nwithout distinction in the net, until it is brought ashore, when\r\nthe wicked must be separated from the good, that in the good,\r\nas in His temple, God may be all in all. We acknowledge,\r\nindeed, that His word is now fulfilled who spake in the psalm,\r\nand said, \"I have announced and spoken; they are multiplied\r\nabove number.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_597_597\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_597_597\">[597]</a> This takes place now, since He has spoken,\r\nfirst by the mouth of his forerunner John, and afterward by\r\nHis own mouth, saying, \"Repent: for the kingdom of heaven\r\nis at hand.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_598_598\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_598_598\">[598]</a> He chose disciples, whom He also called apostles,<a id=\"FNanchor_599_599\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_599_599\">[599]</a>\r\nof lowly birth, unhonoured, and illiterate, so that whatever\r\ngreat thing they might be or do, He might be and do it in\r\nthem. He had one among them whose wickedness He could\r\nuse well in order to accomplish His appointed passion, and\r\nfurnish His Church an example of bearing with the wicked.\r\nHaving sown the holy gospel as much as that behoved to be\r\ndone by His bodily presence, He suffered, died, and rose again,\r\nshowing by His passion what we ought to suffer for the truth,\r\nand by His resurrection what we ought to hope for in adversity;\r\nsaving always the mystery of the sacrament, by which\r\nHis blood was shed for the remission of sins. He held converse\r\non the earth forty days with His disciples, and in their\r\nsight ascended into heaven, and after ten days sent the promised\r\nHoly Spirit. It was given as the chief and most necessary\r\nsign of His coming on those who had believed, that every\r\none of them spoke in the tongues of all nations; thus signifying\r\nthat the unity of the catholic Church would embrace all\r\nnations, and would in like manner speak in all tongues.</p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK EIGHTEENTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-471"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"008d239b13118cbcada947eabf8e7c7cb6a9e6f62fbc708ada08e99f15b1ba27","edition_title":"The City of God, Volume II","edition_translators":["Marcus Dods","George Wilson (Books XVII-XVIII)"],"edition_year":1871,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"LUK","chapter":6,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Luke vi. 13","verse":13,"verse_end":13}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45305-Footnote_599_599","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_599_599","source_ebook":45305,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_599_599\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_599_599\"><span class=\"label\">[599]</span></a> Luke vi. 13.</p></div>","source_sha256":"7e0ced9e70512f3cf050b53c9d548e36b70d468d875153869f95d8aff5bbb530","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45305/pg45305-images.html#Footnote_599_599","text_sha256":"66f9ca2670162e28031cbd511a056829aaa956be3504fe351f1bd3856fe64078","verified":false,"work_id":null}