{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p><span class=\"smcap\">Chap. v.</span>—19. But as to the argument of those men who\r\nare unwilling that their impious deeds should be checked by\r\nthe enactment of righteous laws, when they say that the\r\napostles never sought such measures from the kings of the\r\nearth, they do not consider the different character of that age,\r\nand that everything comes in its own season. For what\r\nemperor had as yet believed in Christ, so as to serve Him in\r\nthe cause of piety by enacting laws against impiety, when as\r\nyet the declaration of the prophet was only in the course of\r\nits fulfilment, \"Why do the heathen rage, and the people\r\nimagine a vain thing? The kings of the earth set themselves,\r\nand their rulers take counsel together, against the Lord, and\r\nagainst His Anointed;\" and there was as yet no sign of that\r\nwhich is spoken a little later in the same psalm: \"Be wise\r\nnow, therefore, O ye kings; be instructed, ye judges of the\r\nearth. Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice with trembling.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_1203_1203\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1203_1203\">[1203]</a>\r\nHow then are kings to serve the Lord with fear, except by\r\npreventing and chastising with religious severity all those acts\r\nwhich are done in opposition to the commandments of the\r\nLord? For a man serves God in one way in that he is man,\r\nin another way in that he is also king. In that he is man, he\r\nserves Him by living faithfully, but in that he is also king,\r\nhe serves Him by enforcing with suitable rigour such laws as\r\nordain what is righteous, and punish what is the reverse.\r\nEven as Hezekiah served Him, by destroying the groves and\r\nthe temples of the idols, and the high places which had been\r\nbuilt in violation of the commandments of God;<a id=\"FNanchor_1204_1204\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1204_1204\">[1204]</a> or even as\r\nJosiah served Him, by doing the same things in his turn;<a id=\"FNanchor_1205_1205\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1205_1205\">[1205]</a> or\r\nas the king of the Ninevites served Him, by compelling all\r\nthe men of his city to make satisfaction to the Lord;<a id=\"FNanchor_1206_1206\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1206_1206\">[1206]</a> or as\r\nDarius served Him, by giving the idol into the power of\r\nDaniel to be broken, and by casting his enemies into the den\r\nof lions;<a id=\"FNanchor_1207_1207\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1207_1207\">[1207]</a> or as Nebuchadnezzar served Him, of whom I have\r\nspoken before, by issuing a terrible law to prevent any of his\r\nsubjects from blaspheming God.<a id=\"FNanchor_1208_1208\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1208_1208\">[1208]</a> In this way, therefore, kings\r\ncan serve the Lord, even in so far as they are kings, when they\r\ndo in His service what they could not do were they not kings.</p>","headings":["WRITINGS IN CONNECTION WITH THE DONATIST CONTROVERSY.","A TREATISE CONCERNING THE CORRECTION OF THE DONATISTS; FORMING EPISTLE 185 IN MIGNE'S EDITION OF AUGUSTINE'S WORKS."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45843-paragraph-771"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"99882eec8d345cb91cfe19f0d8dae8ddc940dc51c7424ea16fce0120779f87a4","edition_title":"Writings in Connection with the Donatist Controversy","edition_translators":["John Richard King"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg45843-Footnote_1206_1206","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. Title leaves identify J. R. King, T. & T. Clark, Edinburgh, 1872; catalog identifies translator John Richard King (1835-1907). Gutenberg credits Internet Archive/American Libraries without an exact scan identifier. Full provider license preserved with acquired original; republication and per-work metadata remain unreviewed.","source_anchor":"Footnote_1206_1206","source_ebook":45843,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_1206_1206\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_1206_1206\"><span class=\"label\">[1206]</span></a> Jonah iii. 6-9.</p></div>","source_sha256":"a7a04003f4d3c49eb73db6c5936713979fcecadd86884373a9914ac54373ac5b","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45843/pg45843-images.html#Footnote_1206_1206","text_sha256":"f0d2b95ae6e9070574e433db4718f459cae8a95cee3bfaadd3304950d07f4a96","verified":false,"work_id":null}