{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Thus the true cause of the blessedness of the good angels\r\nis found to be this, that they cleave to Him who supremely\r\nis. And if we ask the cause of the misery of the bad, it\r\noccurs to us, and not unreasonably, that they are miserable\r\nbecause they have forsaken Him who supremely is, and have\r\nturned to themselves who have no such essence. And this\r\nvice, what else is it called than pride? For \"pride is the\r\nbeginning of sin.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_525_525\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_525_525\">[525]</a> They were unwilling, then, to preserve\r\ntheir strength for God; and as adherence to God was the\r\ncondition of their enjoying an ampler being, they diminished\r\nit by preferring themselves to Him. This was the first defect,\r\nand the first impoverishment, and the first flaw of their nature,\r\nwhich was created, not indeed supremely existent, but finding\r\nits blessedness in the enjoyment of the Supreme Being; whilst\r\nby abandoning Him it should become, not indeed no nature\r\nat all, but a nature with a less ample existence, and therefore\r\nwretched.</p>","headings":["THE WORKS OF AURELIUS AUGUSTINE,","BOOK TWELFTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45304-paragraph-841"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"09bb4a8a1feb23257a32b065c79aed933f529e289368fa14960d4e8770d9d36a","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":"ECC","chapter":10,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Eccles. x. 13","verse":13,"verse_end":13}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45304-Footnote_525_525","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_525_525","source_ebook":45304,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_525_525\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_525_525\"><span class=\"label\">[525]</span></a> Eccles. x. 13.</p></div>","source_sha256":"d89e9a2b80bb59f394f0fb1bf313b39fab162f06af6642166d62c5912c1195f1","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45304/pg45304-images.html#Footnote_525_525","text_sha256":"948959fa9e423bf0f15b43caa9224a2c951b97e13deecb7ea26c35c58c434833","verified":false,"work_id":null}