{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>But that nation, that people, that city, that republic, these\r\nIsraelites, to whom the oracles of God were entrusted, by no\r\nmeans confounded with similar licence false prophets with the\r\ntrue prophets; but, agreeing together, and differing in nothing,\r\nacknowledged and upheld the authentic authors of their sacred\r\nbooks. These were their philosophers, these were their sages,\r\ndivines, prophets, and teachers of probity and piety. Whoever\r\nwas wise and lived according to them was wise and lived\r\nnot according to men, but according to God who hath spoken\r\nby them. If sacrilege is forbidden there, God hath forbidden<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_270\">[Pg 270]</a></span>\r\nit. If it is said, \"Honour thy father and thy mother,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_576_576\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_576_576\">[576]</a> God\r\nhath commanded it. If it is said, \"Thou shalt not commit\r\nadultery, Thou shalt not kill, Thou shalt not steal,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_577_577\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_577_577\">[577]</a> and other\r\nsimilar commandments, not human lips but the divine oracles\r\nhave enounced them. Whatever truth certain philosophers,\r\namid their false opinions, were able to see, and strove by\r\nlaborious discussions to persuade men of,—such as that God\r\nhas made this world, and Himself most providently governs\r\nit, or of the nobility of the virtues, of the love of country, of\r\nfidelity in friendship, of good works and everything pertaining\r\nto virtuous manners, although they knew not to what end\r\nand what rule all these things were to be referred,—all these, by\r\nwords prophetic, that is, divine, although spoken by men, were\r\ncommended to the people in that city, and not inculcated by\r\ncontention in arguments, so that he who should know them\r\nmight be afraid of contemning, not the wit of men, but the\r\noracle of God.</p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK EIGHTEENTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-453"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"18fa9045d73fe99ec3534eb9c4c5abcc69775b62298ad4d1a30fbf7691c1e74c","edition_title":"The City of God, Volume II","edition_translators":["Marcus Dods","George Wilson (Books XVII-XVIII)"],"edition_year":1871,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"MRK","chapter":10,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Mark x. 19","verse":19,"verse_end":19}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45305-Footnote_577_577","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_577_577","source_ebook":45305,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_577_577\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_577_577\"><span class=\"label\">[577]</span></a> Ex. xx. 13-15, the order as in Mark x. 19.</p></div>","source_sha256":"7e0ced9e70512f3cf050b53c9d548e36b70d468d875153869f95d8aff5bbb530","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45305/pg45305-images.html#Footnote_577_577","text_sha256":"8bd48e3c698147f3d2734eec50178d029bc9610985254624f9a037a1a664a24b","verified":false,"work_id":null}