{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>For that fear of which the Apostle John says, \"There is\r\nno fear in love; but perfect love casteth out fear, because\r\nfear hath torment. He that feareth is not made perfect in\r\nlove,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_80_80\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_80_80\">[80]</a>—that fear is not of the same kind as the Apostle\r\nPaul felt lest the Corinthians should be seduced by the\r\nsubtlety of the serpent; for love is susceptible of this fear,\r\nyea, love alone is capable of it. But the fear which is not in\r\nlove is of that kind of which Paul himself says, \"For ye\r\nhave not received the spirit of bondage again to fear.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_81_81\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_81_81\">[81]</a> But\r\nas for that \"clean fear which endureth for ever,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_82_82\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_82_82\">[82]</a> if it is to\r\nexist in the world to come (and how else can it be said to\r\nendure for ever?), it is not a fear deterring us from evil\r\nwhich may happen, but preserving us in the good which\r\ncannot be lost. For where the love of acquired good is\r\nunchangeable, there certainly the fear that avoids evil is, if\r\nI may say so, free from anxiety. For under the name of\r\n\"clean fear\" David signifies that will by which we shall\r\nnecessarily shrink from sin, and guard against it, not with the\r\nanxiety of weakness, which fears that we may strongly sin,\r\nbut with the tranquillity of perfect love. Or if no kind of\r\nfear at all shall exist in that most imperturbable security of\r\nperpetual and blissful delights, then the expression, \"The fear<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_20\">[Pg 20]</a></span>\r\nof the Lord is clean, enduring for ever,\" must be taken in the\r\nsame sense as that other, \"The patience of the poor shall not\r\nperish for ever.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_83_83\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_83_83\">[83]</a> For patience, which is necessary only\r\nwhere ills are to be borne, shall not be eternal, but that which\r\npatience leads us to will be eternal. So perhaps this \"clean\r\nfear\" is said to endure for ever, because that to which fear\r\nleads shall endure.</p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK FOURTEENTH.[1]","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-48"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"e7a97206201fde857c128dad16e91c50a61dfdb1d81c848875d411ed17fc28fe","edition_title":"The City of God, Volume II","edition_translators":["Marcus Dods","George Wilson (Books XVII-XVIII)"],"edition_year":1871,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"PSA","chapter":19,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Ps. xix. 9","verse":9,"verse_end":9}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45305-Footnote_82_82","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_82_82","source_ebook":45305,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_82_82\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_82_82\"><span class=\"label\">[82]</span></a> Ps. xix. 9.</p></div>","source_sha256":"7e0ced9e70512f3cf050b53c9d548e36b70d468d875153869f95d8aff5bbb530","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45305/pg45305-images.html#Footnote_82_82","text_sha256":"00ea28ce38e24957a5bd0bfcbf035a11694ca627cf7d6fbb2580171af7429afe","verified":false,"work_id":null}