{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>And so it has pleased Divine Providence, as I have said,\r\nand as we read in the Acts of the Apostles,<a id=\"FNanchor_404_404\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_404_404\">[404]</a> that the law\r\nenjoining the worship of one God should be given by the\r\ndisposition of angels. But among them the person of God\r\nHimself visibly appeared, not, indeed, in His proper substance,\r\nwhich ever remains invisible to mortal eyes, but by the infallible\r\nsigns furnished by creation in obedience to its Creator.\r\nHe made use, too, of the words of human speech, uttering\r\nthem syllable by syllable successively, though in His own\r\nnature He speaks not in a bodily but in a spiritual way;\r\nnot to sense, but to the mind; not in words that occupy\r\ntime, but, if I may so say, eternally, neither beginning to\r\nspeak nor coming to an end. And what He says is accurately\r\nheard, not by the bodily but by the mental ear of His ministers\r\nand messengers, who are immortally blessed in the enjoyment<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_404\">[Pg 404]</a></span>\r\nof His unchangeable truth; and the directions which they in\r\nsome ineffable way receive, they execute without delay or\r\ndifficulty in the sensible and visible world. And this law\r\nwas given in conformity with the age of the world, and contained\r\nat the first earthly promises, as I have said, which,\r\nhowever, symbolized eternal ones; and these eternal blessings\r\nfew understood, though many took a part in the celebration\r\nof their visible signs. Nevertheless, with one consent both\r\nthe words and the visible rites of that law enjoin the worship\r\nof one God,—not one of a crowd of gods, but Him who made\r\nheaven and earth, and every soul and every spirit which is\r\nother than Himself. He created; all else was created; and,\r\nboth for being and well-being, all things need Him who\r\ncreated them.</p>","headings":["THE WORKS OF AURELIUS AUGUSTINE,","BOOK TENTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45304-paragraph-711"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"b61a5e455e125e953aea73076ad391b74a8945fe88dc77d8b52610050c29464d","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":"ACT","chapter":7,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Acts vii. 53","verse":53,"verse_end":53}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45304-Footnote_404_404","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_404_404","source_ebook":45304,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_404_404\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_404_404\"><span class=\"label\">[404]</span></a> Acts vii. 53.</p></div>","source_sha256":"d89e9a2b80bb59f394f0fb1bf313b39fab162f06af6642166d62c5912c1195f1","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45304/pg45304-images.html#Footnote_404_404","text_sha256":"569a57b42b814fe1f82a8034acb261e516e279a8c13c5f6a19c32b7af64a1106","verified":false,"work_id":null}