{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Wherefore, as the life of the flesh is the soul, so the blessed\r\nlife of man is God, of whom the sacred writings of the Hebrews\r\nsay, \"Blessed is the people whose God is the Lord.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_663_663\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_663_663\">[663]</a> Miserable,\r\ntherefore, is the people which is alienated from God. Yet\r\neven this people has a peace of its own which is not to be\r\nlightly esteemed, though, indeed, it shall not in the end enjoy\r\nit, because it makes no good use of it before the end. But it\r\nis our interest that it enjoy this peace meanwhile in this life;\r\nfor as long as the two cities are commingled, we also enjoy the\r\npeace of Babylon. For from Babylon the people of God is so\r\nfreed that it meanwhile sojourns in its company. And therefore\r\nthe apostle also admonished the Church to pray for kings\r\nand those in authority, assigning as the reason, \"that we may\r\nlive a quiet and tranquil life in all godliness and love.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_664_664\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_664_664\">[664]</a>\r\nAnd the prophet Jeremiah, when predicting the captivity that\r\nwas to befall the ancient people of God, and giving them the\r\ndivine command to go obediently to Babylonia, and thus serve\r\ntheir God, counselled them also to pray for Babylonia, saying,\r\n\"In the peace thereof shall ye have peace,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_665_665\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_665_665\">[665]</a>—the temporal\r\npeace which the good and the wicked together enjoy.</p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK NINETEENTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-551"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"0ad909e8c10bea9e71a1c4c7c3c87e352fd3e5ac64c973984de0b530b995c411","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":144,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Ps. cxliv. 15","verse":15,"verse_end":15}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45305-Footnote_663_663","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_663_663","source_ebook":45305,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_663_663\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_663_663\"><span class=\"label\">[663]</span></a> Ps. cxliv. 15.</p></div>","source_sha256":"7e0ced9e70512f3cf050b53c9d548e36b70d468d875153869f95d8aff5bbb530","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45305/pg45305-images.html#Footnote_663_663","text_sha256":"6eb87ee67b36c7df1cbd3fa2f30eefc057a7f706b4099170d59383d124275330","verified":false,"work_id":null}