{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>But so far as regards this question of mental perturbations,\r\nwe have answered these philosophers in the ninth book<a id=\"FNanchor_50_50\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_50_50\">[50]</a>\r\nof this work, showing that it is rather a verbal than a real\r\ndispute, and that they seek contention rather than truth.\r\nAmong ourselves, according to the sacred Scriptures and\r\nsound doctrine, the citizens of the holy city of God, who live\r\naccording to God in the pilgrimage of this life, both fear and\r\ndesire, and grieve and rejoice. And because their love is<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_16\">[Pg 16]</a></span>\r\nrightly placed, all these affections of theirs are right. They\r\nfear eternal punishment, they desire eternal life; they grieve\r\nbecause they themselves groan within themselves, waiting for\r\nthe adoption, the redemption of their body;<a id=\"FNanchor_51_51\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_51_51\">[51]</a> they rejoice in\r\nhope, because there \"shall be brought to pass the saying that\r\nis written, Death is swallowed up in victory.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_52_52\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_52_52\">[52]</a> In like\r\nmanner they fear to sin, they desire to persevere; they grieve\r\nin sin, they rejoice in good works. They fear to sin, because\r\nthey hear that \"because iniquity shall abound, the love of\r\nmany shall wax cold.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_53_53\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_53_53\">[53]</a> They desire to persevere, because\r\nthey hear that it is written, \"He that endureth to the end\r\nshall be saved.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_54_54\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_54_54\">[54]</a> They grieve for sin, hearing that \"If we say\r\nthat we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is\r\nnot in us.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_55_55\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_55_55\">[55]</a> They rejoice in good works, because they hear\r\nthat \"the Lord loveth a cheerful giver.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_56_56\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_56_56\">[56]</a> In like manner,\r\naccording as they are strong or weak, they fear or desire to\r\nbe tempted, grieve or rejoice in temptation. 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