{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"6f10a3d4f8ea59b386cb1d7d119d62dbd8053391e38350799e41c5beb3487e38","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":["THE WORKS OF AURELIUS AUGUSTINE,","BOOK FIRST."],"id":"pg45304-paragraph-85","license_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/policy/license.html","note_targets":[],"public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"original-paragraph-unclassified","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":null,"source_ebook":45304,"source_html":"<p>Again, it is said many have killed themselves to prevent\r\nan enemy doing so. But we are not inquiring whether it has\r\nbeen done, but whether it ought to have been done. Sound\r\njudgment is to be preferred even to examples, and indeed\r\nexamples harmonize with the voice of reason; but not all\r\nexamples, but those only which are distinguished by their\r\npiety, and are proportionately worthy of imitation. For\r\nsuicide we cannot cite the example of patriarchs, prophets, or\r\napostles; though our Lord Jesus Christ, when He admonished\r\nthem to flee from city to city if they were persecuted, might\r\nvery well have taken that occasion to advise them to lay\r\nviolent hands on themselves, and so escape their persecutors.\r\nBut seeing He did not do this, nor proposed this mode of\r\ndeparting this life, though He were addressing His own<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_34\">[Pg 34]</a></span>\r\nfriends for whom He had promised to prepare everlasting\r\nmansions, it is obvious that such examples as are produced\r\nfrom the \"nations that forget God,\" give no warrant of imitation\r\nto the worshippers of the one true God.</p>","source_sha256":"d89e9a2b80bb59f394f0fb1bf313b39fab162f06af6642166d62c5912c1195f1","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45304/pg45304-images.html","text_sha256":"1754e0ece19682d3e1dacd853305a2925f02fbf73c703ea098e89a85720019b2","verified":false,"work_id":null}