{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Perhaps our readers expect us to say something about this\r\nso great delusion wrought by the demons; and what shall we\r\nsay but that men must fly out of the midst of Babylon?<a id=\"FNanchor_504_504\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_504_504\">[504]</a> For\r\nthis prophetic precept is to be understood spiritually in this\r\nsense, that by going forward in the living God, by the steps of<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_236\">[Pg 236]</a></span>\r\nfaith, which worketh by love, we must flee out of the city of\r\nthis world, which is altogether a society of ungodly angels and\r\nmen. Yea, the greater we see the power of the demons to be\r\nin these depths, so much the more tenaciously must we cleave\r\nto the Mediator through whom we ascend from these lowest\r\nto the highest places. For if we should say these things are\r\nnot to be credited, there are not wanting even now some\r\nwho would affirm that they had either heard on the best\r\nauthority, or even themselves experienced, something of that\r\nkind. Indeed we ourselves, when in Italy, heard such things\r\nabout a certain region there, where landladies of inns, imbued\r\nwith these wicked arts, were said to be in the habit of giving\r\nto such travellers as they chose, or could manage, something\r\nin a piece of cheese by which they were changed on the spot\r\ninto beasts of burden, and carried whatever was necessary,\r\nand were restored to their own form when the work was\r\ndone. Yet their mind did not become bestial, but remained\r\nrational and human, just as Apuleius, in the books he wrote\r\nwith the title of <i>The Golden Ass</i>, has told, or feigned, that it\r\nhappened to his own self that, on taking poison, he became\r\nan ass, while retaining his human mind.</p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK EIGHTEENTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-390"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"bded4f2e81574783b45683d45590e3835526bdc7a22cf8d36a28b8312a586026","edition_title":"The City of God, Volume II","edition_translators":["Marcus Dods","George Wilson (Books XVII-XVIII)"],"edition_year":1871,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"ISA","chapter":48,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Isa. xlviii. 20","verse":20,"verse_end":20}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45305-Footnote_504_504","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_504_504","source_ebook":45305,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_504_504\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_504_504\"><span class=\"label\">[504]</span></a> Isa. xlviii. 20.</p></div>","source_sha256":"7e0ced9e70512f3cf050b53c9d548e36b70d468d875153869f95d8aff5bbb530","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45305/pg45305-images.html#Footnote_504_504","text_sha256":"2a4cebe4877da6ddbb39057273e395dcd4489afdaf700dd01bd284bc0b70023b","verified":false,"work_id":null}