{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Let us, then, speak in the customary way,—no man ought\r\nto speak otherwise,—and let us call the time before death\r\ncome, \"before death;\" as it is written, \"Praise no man before\r\nhis death.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_586_586\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_586_586\">[586]</a> And when it has happened, let us say that\r\n\"after death\" this or that took place. And of the present\r\ntime let us speak as best we can, as when we say, \"He,\r\nwhen dying, made his will, and left this or that to such and\r\nsuch persons,\"—though, of course, he could not do so unless\r\nhe were living, and did this rather before death than in death.\r\nAnd let us use the same phraseology as Scripture uses; for it\r\nmakes no scruple of saying that the dead are not after but in\r\ndeath. So that verse, \"For in death there is no remembrance\r\nof thee.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_587_587\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_587_587\">[587]</a> For until the resurrection men are justly said to\r\nbe in death; as every one is said to be in sleep till he\r\nawakes. However, though we can say of persons in sleep\r\nthat they are sleeping, we cannot speak in this way of the\r\ndead, and say they are dying. For, so far as regards the\r\ndeath of the body, of which we are now speaking, one cannot\r\nsay that those who are already separated from their bodies\r\ncontinue dying. But this, you see, is just what I was saying,—that\r\nno words can explain how either the dying are said\r\nto live, or how the dead are said, even after death, to be in\r\ndeath. For how can they be after death if they be in death,\r\nespecially when we do not even call them dying, as we call\r\nthose in sleep, sleeping; and those in languor, languishing;\r\nand those in grief, grieving; and those in life, living? And\r\nyet the dead, until they rise again, are said to be in death,\r\nbut cannot be called dying.</p>","headings":["THE WORKS OF AURELIUS AUGUSTINE,","BOOK THIRTEENTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45304-paragraph-915"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"9898070de02ae042b1e64a315488c35b872e85d25f4ae604ef47dc8518a46409","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":6,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Ps. vi. 5","verse":5,"verse_end":5}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45304-Footnote_587_587","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_587_587","source_ebook":45304,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_587_587\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_587_587\"><span class=\"label\">[587]</span></a> Ps. vi. 5.</p></div>","source_sha256":"d89e9a2b80bb59f394f0fb1bf313b39fab162f06af6642166d62c5912c1195f1","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45304/pg45304-images.html#Footnote_587_587","text_sha256":"b732aa037cb12f5847e3314f71cf1e21de5227b0f8c17ac83aa349d157fc21c5","verified":false,"work_id":null}