{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>But the devil, seeing the temples of the demons deserted,\r\nand the human race running to the name of the liberating\r\nMediator, has moved the heretics under the Christian name\r\nto resist the Christian doctrine, as if they could be kept in<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_284\">[Pg 284]</a></span>\r\nthe city of God indifferently without any correction, just as\r\nthe city of confusion indifferently held the philosophers who\r\nwere of diverse and adverse opinions. Those, therefore, in\r\nthe Church of Christ who savour anything morbid and depraved,\r\nand, on being corrected that they may savour what\r\nis wholesome and right, contumaciously resist, and will not\r\namend their pestiferous and deadly dogmas, but persist in defending\r\nthem, become heretics, and, going without, are to be\r\nreckoned as enemies who serve for her discipline. For even\r\nthus they profit by their wickedness those true catholic members\r\nof Christ, since God makes a good use even of the wicked,\r\nand all things work together for good to them that love Him.<a id=\"FNanchor_605_605\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_605_605\">[605]</a>\r\nFor all the enemies of the Church, whatever error blinds or\r\nmalice depraves them, exercise her patience if they receive\r\nthe power to afflict her corporally; and if they only oppose\r\nher by wicked thought, they exercise her wisdom: but at\r\nthe same time, if these enemies are loved, they exercise her\r\nbenevolence, or even her beneficence, whether she deals with\r\nthem by persuasive doctrine or by terrible discipline. And\r\nthus the devil, the prince of the impious city, when he stirs\r\nup his own vessels against the city of God that sojourns in\r\nthis world, is permitted to do her no harm. For without\r\ndoubt the divine providence procures for her both consolation\r\nthrough prosperity, that she may not be broken by adversity,\r\nand trial through adversity, that she may not be corrupted by\r\nprosperity; and thus each is tempered by the other, as we\r\nrecognise in the Psalms that voice which arises from no other\r\ncause, \"According to the multitude of my griefs in my heart,\r\nThy consolations have delighted my soul.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_606_606\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_606_606\">[606]</a> Hence also is\r\nthat saying of the apostle, \"Rejoicing in hope, patient in\r\ntribulation.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_607_607\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_607_607\">[607]</a></p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK EIGHTEENTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-475"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"47d2d6f32139d1aaec39c4415afec058e92b62fea3d4338970744a12ba616a41","edition_title":"The City of God, Volume II","edition_translators":["Marcus Dods","George Wilson (Books XVII-XVIII)"],"edition_year":1871,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"PSA","chapter":94,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Ps. xciv. 19","verse":19,"verse_end":19}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45305-Footnote_606_606","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_606_606","source_ebook":45305,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_606_606\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_606_606\"><span class=\"label\">[606]</span></a> Ps. xciv. 19.</p></div>","source_sha256":"7e0ced9e70512f3cf050b53c9d548e36b70d468d875153869f95d8aff5bbb530","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45305/pg45305-images.html#Footnote_606_606","text_sha256":"354d732f12ff67d480a7f69fdb6ec9818c381745aab9aedee18f90546fa3b148","verified":false,"work_id":null}