{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>The city of God we speak of is the same to which testimony\r\nis borne by that Scripture, which excels all the\r\nwritings of all nations by its divine authority, and has brought\r\nunder its influence all kinds of minds, and this not by a\r\ncasual intellectual movement, but obviously by an express\r\nprovidential arrangement. For there it is written, \"Glorious\r\nthings are spoken of thee, O city of God.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_441_441\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_441_441\">[441]</a> And in another\r\npsalm we read, \"Great is the Lord, and greatly to be praised in\r\nthe city of our God, in the mountain of His holiness, increasing\r\nthe joy of the whole earth.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_442_442\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_442_442\">[442]</a> And, a little after, in the\r\nsame psalm, \"As we have heard, so have we seen in the city\r\nof the Lord of hosts, in the city of our God. God has established\r\nit for ever.\" And in another, \"There is a river the\r\nstreams whereof shall make glad the city of our God, the holy\r\nplace of the tabernacles of the Most High. God is in the\r\nmidst of her, she shall not be moved.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_443_443\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_443_443\">[443]</a> From these and\r\nsimilar testimonies, all of which it were tedious to cite, we\r\nhave learned that there is a city of God, and its Founder has\r\ninspired us with a love which makes us covet its citizenship.\r\nTo this Founder of the holy city the citizens of the earthly\r\ncity prefer their own gods, not knowing that He is the God<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_437\">[Pg 437]</a></span>\r\nof gods, not of false, <i>i.e.</i> of impious and proud gods, who,\r\nbeing deprived of His unchangeable and freely communicated\r\nlight, and so reduced to a kind of poverty-stricken power,\r\neagerly grasp at their own private privileges, and seek divine\r\nhonours from their deluded subjects; but of the pious and\r\nholy gods, who are better pleased to submit themselves to one,\r\nthan to subject many to themselves, and who would rather\r\nworship God than be worshipped as God. But to the enemies\r\nof this city we have replied in the ten preceding books, according\r\nto our ability and the help afforded by our Lord\r\nand King. Now, recognising what is expected of me, and\r\nnot unmindful of my promise, and relying, too, on the same\r\nsuccour, I will endeavour to treat of the origin, and progress,\r\nand deserved destinies of the two cities (the earthly and the\r\nheavenly, to wit), which, as we said, are in this present world\r\ncommingled, and as it were entangled together. And, first, I\r\nwill explain how the foundations of these two cities were\r\noriginally laid, in the difference that arose among the angels.</p>","headings":["THE WORKS OF AURELIUS AUGUSTINE,","BOOK ELEVENTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45304-paragraph-755"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"02771a807fc84b49e76b8724a03b8ec447cd908999b0a775512ae07e8b577622","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":"PSA","chapter":48,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Ps. xlviii. 1","verse":1,"verse_end":1}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45304-Footnote_442_442","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_442_442","source_ebook":45304,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_442_442\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_442_442\"><span class=\"label\">[442]</span></a> Ps. xlviii. 1.</p></div>","source_sha256":"d89e9a2b80bb59f394f0fb1bf313b39fab162f06af6642166d62c5912c1195f1","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45304/pg45304-images.html#Footnote_442_442","text_sha256":"c4b17056949a4f5fe21b7f85110778414ea97f639814554aa1217a599697ee0f","verified":false,"work_id":null}