{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>God, then, made man in His own image. For He created\r\nfor him a soul endowed with reason and intelligence, so that\r\nhe might excel all the creatures of earth, air, and sea, which\r\nwere not so gifted. And when He had formed the man out\r\nof the dust of the earth, and had willed that his soul should\r\nbe such as I have said,—whether He had already made it,\r\nand now by breathing imparted it to man, or rather made it\r\nby breathing, so that that breath which God made by breathing\r\n(for what else is \"to breathe\" than to make breath?) is\r\nthe soul,<a id=\"FNanchor_562_562\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_562_562\">[562]</a>—He made also a wife for him, to aid him in the\r\nwork of generating his kind, and her He formed of a bone\r\ntaken out of the man's side, working in a divine manner.\r\nFor we are not to conceive of this work in a carnal fashion,\r\nas if God wrought as we commonly see artisans, who use their\r\nhands, and material furnished to them, that by their artistic\r\nskill they may fashion some material object. God's hand is\r\nGod's power; and He, working invisibly, effects visible results.\r\nBut this seems fabulous rather than true to men, who measure<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_516\">[Pg 516]</a></span>\r\nby customary and everyday works the power and wisdom of\r\nGod, whereby He understands and produces without seeds\r\neven seeds themselves; and because they cannot understand\r\nthe things which at the beginning were created, they are\r\nsceptical regarding them—as if the very things which they\r\ndo know about human propagation, conceptions and births,\r\nwould seem less incredible if told to those who had no experience\r\nof them; though these very things, too, are attributed\r\nby many rather to physical and natural causes than to the\r\nwork of the divine mind.</p>","headings":["THE WORKS OF AURELIUS AUGUSTINE,","BOOK TWELFTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45304-paragraph-883"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"6c90db6968379395e425730eac760711ad8d021b7d6bcbcf1b4724892b587abc","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_562_562","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_562_562","source_ebook":45304,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_562_562\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_562_562\"><span class=\"label\">[562]</span></a> See this further discussed in <i>Gen. ad Lit.</i> vii. 35, and in Delitzsch's <i>Bibl.\r\nPsychology</i>.</p></div>","source_sha256":"d89e9a2b80bb59f394f0fb1bf313b39fab162f06af6642166d62c5912c1195f1","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45304/pg45304-images.html#Footnote_562_562","text_sha256":"014a258702ee8120b0630f9c2e1957cd8ff1400669a8dec458c6339a6f451a4d","verified":false,"work_id":null}