{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Here arises the question: If the fire is not to be immaterial,\r\nanalogous to the pain of the soul, but material, burning by\r\ncontact, so that bodies may be tormented in it, how can evil\r\nspirits be punished in it? For it is undoubtedly the same\r\nfire which is to serve for the punishment of men and of devils,\r\naccording to the words of Christ: \"Depart from me, ye cursed,\r\ninto everlasting fire, prepared for the devil and his angels;\"<a id=\"FNanchor_871_871\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_871_871\">[871]</a>\r\nunless, perhaps, as learned men have thought, the devils have\r\na kind of body made of that dense and humid air which we\r\nfeel strikes us when the wind is blowing. And if this kind\r\nof substance could not be affected by fire, it could not burn\r\nwhen heated in the baths. For in order to burn, it is first\r\nburned, and affects other things as itself is affected. But if\r\nany one maintains that the devils have no bodies, this is not<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_435\">[Pg 435]</a></span>\r\na matter either to be laboriously investigated, or to be debated\r\nwith keenness. For why may we not assert that even immaterial\r\nspirits may, in some extraordinary way, yet really be\r\npained by the punishment of material fire, if the spirits of\r\nmen, which also are certainly immaterial, are both now contained\r\nin material members of the body, and in the world to\r\ncome shall be indissolubly united to their own bodies? Therefore,\r\nthough the devils have no bodies, yet their spirits, that\r\nis, the devils themselves, shall be brought into thorough contact\r\nwith the material fires, to be tormented by them; not\r\nthat the fires themselves with which they are brought into\r\ncontact shall be animated by their connection with these spirits,\r\nand become animals composed of body and spirit, but, as I\r\nsaid, this junction will be effected in a wonderful and ineffable\r\nway, so that they shall receive pain from the fires, but give no\r\nlife to them. And, in truth, this other mode of union, by\r\nwhich bodies and spirits are bound together and become\r\nanimals, is thoroughly marvellous, and beyond the comprehension\r\nof man, though this it is which is man.</p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK TWENTY-FIRST.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-684"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"6494b4642e598a2272bf03fd2c3e2ccc77e2385ed123569bc6697386358802b2","edition_title":"The City of God, Volume II","edition_translators":["Marcus Dods","George Wilson (Books XVII-XVIII)"],"edition_year":1871,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"MAT","chapter":25,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Matt. xxv. 41","verse":41,"verse_end":41}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45305-Footnote_871_871","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_871_871","source_ebook":45305,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_871_871\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_871_871\"><span class=\"label\">[871]</span></a> Matt. xxv. 41.</p></div>","source_sha256":"7e0ced9e70512f3cf050b53c9d548e36b70d468d875153869f95d8aff5bbb530","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45305/pg45305-images.html#Footnote_871_871","text_sha256":"69273323dbb63567a3c5752f280c12e696a0081310b81b2fc1032ec32641e1de","verified":false,"work_id":null}