{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>But, say they, many Christians were even led away captive.\r\nThis indeed were a most pitiable fate, if they could be\r\nled away to any place where they could not find their God.\r\nBut for this calamity also sacred Scripture affords great consolation.\r\nThe three youths<a id=\"FNanchor_68_68\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_68_68\">[68]</a> were captives; Daniel was a\r\ncaptive; so were other prophets: and God, the comforter, did\r\nnot fail them. And in like manner He has not failed His\r\nown people in the power of a nation which, though barbarous,\r\nis yet human,—He who did not abandon the prophet<a id=\"FNanchor_69_69\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_69_69\">[69]</a> in the\r\nbelly of a monster. These things, indeed, are turned to ridicule\r\nrather than credited by those with whom we are debating;\r\nthough they believe what they read in their own books,\r\nthat Arion of Methymna, the famous lyrist,<a id=\"FNanchor_70_70\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_70_70\">[70]</a> when he was\r\nthrown overboard, was received on a dolphin's back and carried\r\nto land. But that story of ours about the prophet Jonah is\r\nfar more incredible,—more incredible because more marvellous,\r\nand more marvellous because a greater exhibition of power.</p>","headings":["THE WORKS OF AURELIUS AUGUSTINE,","BOOK FIRST."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45304-paragraph-62"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"ce16d750bcf9bd6f4f92b544e7dadc60b26b01365afb0a5d287c21c833ca6ad4","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":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg45304-Footnote_69_69","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_69_69","source_ebook":45304,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_69_69\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_69_69\"><span class=\"label\">[69]</span></a> Jonah.</p></div>","source_sha256":"d89e9a2b80bb59f394f0fb1bf313b39fab162f06af6642166d62c5912c1195f1","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45304/pg45304-images.html#Footnote_69_69","text_sha256":"e51aa22d942adb3afcefc2bd3740983ae6e789cf7b2f08048c63733bb02c7899","verified":false,"work_id":null}