{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Of these two first parents of the human race, then, Cain\r\nwas the first-born, and he belonged to the city of men; after\r\nhim was born Abel, who belonged to the city of God. For\r\nas in the individual the truth of the apostle's statement is\r\ndiscerned, \"that is not first which is spiritual, but that which\r\nis natural, and afterward that which is spiritual,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_130_130\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_130_130\">[130]</a> whence\r\nit comes to pass that each man, being derived from a condemned\r\nstock, is first of all born of Adam evil and carnal,\r\nand becomes good and spiritual only afterwards, when he is\r\ngrafted into Christ by regeneration: so was it in the human\r\nrace as a whole. When these two cities began to run their\r\ncourse by a series of deaths and births, the citizen of this\r\nworld was the first-born, and after him the stranger in this\r\nworld, the citizen of the city of God, predestinated by grace,\r\nelected by grace, by grace a stranger below, and by grace a\r\ncitizen above. By grace,—for so far as regards himself he is\r\nsprung from the same mass, all of which is condemned in its\r\norigin; but God, like a potter (for this comparison is introduced\r\nby the apostle judiciously, and not without thought),\r\nof the same lump made one vessel to honour, another to dishonour.<a id=\"FNanchor_131_131\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_131_131\">[131]</a>\r\nBut first the vessel to dishonour was made, and\r\nafter it another to honour. For in each individual, as I have\r\nalready said, there is first of all that which is reprobate, that\r\nfrom which we must begin, but in which we need not necessarily\r\nremain; afterwards is that which is well-approved, to\r\nwhich we may by advancing attain, and in which, when we\r\nhave reached it, we may abide. Not, indeed, that every\r\nwicked man shall be good, but that no one will be good who\r\nwas not first of all wicked; but the sooner any one becomes\r\na good man, the more speedily does he receive this title, and<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_51\">[Pg 51]</a></span>\r\nabolish the old name in the new. Accordingly, it is recorded\r\nof Cain that he built a city,<a id=\"FNanchor_132_132\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_132_132\">[132]</a> but Abel, being a sojourner,\r\nbuilt none. For the city of the saints is above, although\r\nhere below it begets citizens, in whom it sojourns till the\r\ntime of its reign arrives, when it shall gather together all in\r\nthe day of the resurrection; and then shall the promised\r\nkingdom be given to them, in which they shall reign with\r\ntheir Prince, the King of the ages, time without end.</p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK FIFTEENTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-97"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"86152d5180171134f83748a3fe73ca9123fe1f2cf1a736a8daacfcd3cba0744b","edition_title":"The City of God, Volume II","edition_translators":["Marcus Dods","George Wilson (Books XVII-XVIII)"],"edition_year":1871,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"1CO","chapter":15,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"1 Cor. xv. 46","verse":46,"verse_end":46}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45305-Footnote_130_130","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_130_130","source_ebook":45305,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_130_130\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_130_130\"><span class=\"label\">[130]</span></a> 1 Cor. xv. 46.</p></div>","source_sha256":"7e0ced9e70512f3cf050b53c9d548e36b70d468d875153869f95d8aff5bbb530","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45305/pg45305-images.html#Footnote_130_130","text_sha256":"3f5eaaa14ecae6bc887cbb27b6bb590a8b6a6f2174a82f2eda4e17188e062ab6","verified":false,"work_id":null}