{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>If, then, we be asked what the city of God has to say\r\nupon these points, and, in the first place, what its opinion\r\nregarding the supreme good and evil is, it will reply that life\r\neternal is the supreme good, death eternal the supreme evil,\r\nand that to obtain the one and escape the other we must live\r\nrightly. And thus it is written, \"The just lives by faith,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_623_623\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_623_623\">[623]</a> for<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_302\">[Pg 302]</a></span>\r\nwe do not as yet see our good, and must therefore live by\r\nfaith; neither have we in ourselves power to live rightly, but\r\ncan do so only if He who has given us faith to believe in His\r\nhelp do help us when we believe and pray. As for those who\r\nhave supposed that the sovereign good and evil are to be\r\nfound in this life, and have placed it either in the soul or the\r\nbody, or in both, or, to speak more explicitly, either in pleasure\r\nor in virtue, or in both; in repose or in virtue, or in\r\nboth; in pleasure and repose, or in virtue, or in all combined;\r\nin the primary objects of nature, or in virtue, or in both,—all\r\nthese have, with a marvellous shallowness, sought to find their\r\nblessedness in this life and in themselves. Contempt has\r\nbeen poured upon such ideas by the Truth, saying by the prophet,\r\n\"The Lord knoweth the thoughts of men\" (or, as the\r\nApostle Paul cites the passage, \"The Lord knoweth the\r\nthoughts of the <i>wise</i>\") \"that they are vain.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_624_624\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_624_624\">[624]</a></p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK NINETEENTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-496"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"40b3d803a1a8f13041f48005fa056308267d29f614ebdf6a197a2d2399b9cf7b","edition_title":"The City of God, Volume II","edition_translators":["Marcus Dods","George Wilson (Books XVII-XVIII)"],"edition_year":1871,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"PSA","chapter":94,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Ps. xciv. 11","verse":11,"verse_end":11},{"book":"1CO","chapter":3,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"1 Cor. iii. 20","verse":20,"verse_end":20}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45305-Footnote_624_624","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_624_624","source_ebook":45305,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_624_624\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_624_624\"><span class=\"label\">[624]</span></a> Ps. xciv. 11, and 1 Cor. iii. 20.</p></div>","source_sha256":"7e0ced9e70512f3cf050b53c9d548e36b70d468d875153869f95d8aff5bbb530","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45305/pg45305-images.html#Footnote_624_624","text_sha256":"9eab376224b1141fd549c2d777e10c30c1e58e96e6cefccaf45464bceb3b6499","verified":false,"work_id":null}