{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Of all visible things, the world is the greatest; of all invisible,\r\nthe greatest is God. But, that the world is, we see;\r\nthat God is, we believe. That God made the world, we can\r\nbelieve from no one more safely than from God Himself. But\r\nwhere have we heard Him? Nowhere more distinctly than in\r\nthe Holy Scriptures, where His prophet said, \"In the beginning\r\nGod created the heavens and the earth.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_448_448\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_448_448\">[448]</a> Was the prophet\r\npresent when God made the heavens and the earth? No;\r\nbut the wisdom of God, by whom all things were made, was\r\nthere,<a id=\"FNanchor_449_449\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_449_449\">[449]</a> and wisdom insinuates itself into holy souls, and makes\r\nthem the friends of God and His prophets, and noiselessly\r\ninforms them of His works. They are taught also by the\r\nangels of God, who always behold the face of the Father,<a id=\"FNanchor_450_450\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_450_450\">[450]</a> and\r\nannounce His will to whom it befits. Of these prophets was\r\nhe who said and wrote, \"In the beginning God created the\r\nheavens and the earth.\" And so fit a witness was he of God,\r\nthat the same Spirit of God, who revealed these things to him,\r\nenabled him also so long before to predict that our faith also\r\nwould be forthcoming.</p>","headings":["THE WORKS OF AURELIUS AUGUSTINE,","BOOK ELEVENTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45304-paragraph-761"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"2e9bcde2a159ac3dbd915f1ffeb3bf646a473903448420f985be462881dd38f9","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":18,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Matt. xviii. 10","verse":10,"verse_end":10}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45304-Footnote_450_450","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_450_450","source_ebook":45304,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_450_450\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_450_450\"><span class=\"label\">[450]</span></a> Matt. xviii. 10.</p></div>","source_sha256":"d89e9a2b80bb59f394f0fb1bf313b39fab162f06af6642166d62c5912c1195f1","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45304/pg45304-images.html#Footnote_450_450","text_sha256":"9aeaa3a1c1dfec593af8f9262bb2f78f7779212ad96032c30e6a71e1540296b1","verified":false,"work_id":null}