{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>And consequently overgrown and emaciated persons need\r\nnot fear that they shall be in heaven of such a figure as\r\nthey would not be even in this world if they could help it.\r\nFor all bodily beauty consists in the proportion of the parts,\r\ntogether with a certain agreeableness of colour. Where there\r\nis no proportion, the eye is offended, either because there is\r\nsomething awanting, or too small, or too large. And thus\r\nthere shall be no deformity resulting from want of proportion\r\nin that state in which all that is wrong is corrected, and all\r\nthat is defective supplied from resources the Creator wots of,\r\nand all that is excessive removed without destroying the integrity\r\nof the substance. And as for the pleasant colour, how<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_514\">[Pg 514]</a></span>\r\nconspicuous shall it be where \"the just shall shine forth as\r\nthe sun in the kingdom of their Father!\"<a id=\"FNanchor_1006_1006\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1006_1006\">[1006]</a> This brightness\r\nwe must rather believe to have been concealed from the eyes\r\nof the disciples when Christ rose, than to have been awanting.\r\nFor weak human eyesight could not bear it, and it was necessary\r\nthat they should so look upon Him as to be able to\r\nrecognise Him. For this purpose also He allowed them to\r\ntouch the marks of His wounds, and also ate and drank,—not\r\nbecause He needed nourishment, but because He could take it\r\nif He wished. Now, when an object, though present, is invisible\r\nto persons who see other things which are present, as\r\nwe say that that brightness was present but invisible by those\r\nwho saw other things, this is called in Greek ἀορασία; and our\r\nLatin translators, for want of a better word, have rendered\r\nthis <i>cæcitas</i> (blindness) in the book of Genesis. This blindness\r\nthe men of Sodom suffered when they sought the just\r\nLot's gate and could not find it. But if it had been blindness,\r\nthat is to say, if they could see nothing, then they would not\r\nhave asked for the gate by which they might enter the house,\r\nbut for guides who might lead them away.</p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK TWENTY-SECOND.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-811"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"63ea73a88de2490834e5d3ef115663dc75d9626c8d404cfffb51ff4bcad137b3","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":13,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Matt. xiii. 43","verse":43,"verse_end":43}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45305-Footnote_1006_1006","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_1006_1006","source_ebook":45305,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_1006_1006\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_1006_1006\"><span class=\"label\">[1006]</span></a> Matt. xiii. 43.</p></div>","source_sha256":"7e0ced9e70512f3cf050b53c9d548e36b70d468d875153869f95d8aff5bbb530","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45305/pg45305-images.html#Footnote_1006_1006","text_sha256":"e582dffa197534223c62f8fced6490f578b4f6532dd3d4c708e9086bd00d48aa","verified":false,"work_id":null}