{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>The devils themselves knew this manifestation of God so\r\nwell, that they said to the Lord, though clothed with the<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_377\">[Pg 377]</a></span>\r\ninfirmity of flesh, \"What have we to do with Thee, Jesus of\r\nNazareth? Art Thou come to destroy us before the time?\"<a id=\"FNanchor_355_355\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_355_355\">[355]</a>\r\nFrom these words, it is clear that they had great knowledge,\r\nand no charity. They feared His power to punish, and did not\r\nlove His righteousness. He made known to them so much\r\nas He pleased, and He was pleased to make known so much\r\nas was needful. But He made Himself known, not as to the\r\nholy angels, who know Him as the Word of God, and rejoice\r\nin His eternity, which they partake, but as was requisite to\r\nstrike with terror the beings from whose tyranny He was going\r\nto free those who were predestined to His kingdom and the\r\nglory of it, eternally true and truly eternal. He made Himself\r\nknown, therefore, to the demons, not by that which is life\r\neternal, and the unchangeable light which illumines the pious,\r\nwhose souls are cleansed by the faith that is in Him, but by\r\nsome temporal effects of His power, and evidences of His\r\nmysterious presence, which were more easily discerned by the\r\nangelic senses even of wicked spirits than by human infirmity.\r\nBut when He judged it advisable gradually to suppress these\r\nsigns, and to retire into deeper obscurity, the prince of the\r\ndemons doubted whether He were the Christ, and endeavoured\r\nto ascertain this by tempting Him, in so far as He permitted\r\nHimself to be tempted, that He might adapt the manhood He\r\nwore to be an example for our imitation. But after that\r\ntemptation, when, as Scripture says, He was ministered to<a id=\"FNanchor_356_356\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_356_356\">[356]</a> by\r\nthe angels who are good and holy, and therefore objects of\r\nterror to the impure spirits, He revealed more and more distinctly\r\nto the demons how great He was, so that, even though\r\nthe infirmity of His flesh might seem contemptible, none dared\r\nto resist His authority.</p>","headings":["THE WORKS OF AURELIUS AUGUSTINE,","BOOK NINTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45304-paragraph-670"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"9db97faa367a9812a0efe33d5168c553ca8c9599ba20a3d0e02b5311c4e42291","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":[{"book":"MAT","chapter":4,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Matt. iv. 3-11","verse":3,"verse_end":11}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45304-Footnote_356_356","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_356_356","source_ebook":45304,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_356_356\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_356_356\"><span class=\"label\">[356]</span></a> Matt. iv. 3-11.</p></div>","source_sha256":"d89e9a2b80bb59f394f0fb1bf313b39fab162f06af6642166d62c5912c1195f1","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45304/pg45304-images.html#Footnote_356_356","text_sha256":"7c95fa0499926c95001a2751846473d8c01aed1cf372d6a8bb2faad8ab36b536","verified":false,"work_id":null}