{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>But we must now contemplate the rich and countless blessings<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_523\">[Pg 523]</a></span>\r\nwith which the goodness of God, who cares for all He\r\nhas created, has filled this very misery of the human race,\r\nwhich reflects His retributive justice. That first blessing\r\nwhich He pronounced before the fall, when He said, \"Increase,\r\nand multiply, and replenish the earth,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_1016_1016\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1016_1016\">[1016]</a> He did not\r\ninhibit after man had sinned, but the fecundity originally bestowed\r\nremained in the condemned stock; and the vice of sin,\r\nwhich has involved us in the necessity of dying, has yet not\r\ndeprived us of that wonderful power of seed, or rather of that\r\nstill more marvellous power by which seed is produced, and\r\nwhich seems to be as it were inwrought and inwoven in the\r\nhuman body. But in this river, as I may call it, or torrent\r\nof the human race, both elements are carried along together,—both\r\nthe evil which is derived from him who begets, and the\r\ngood which is bestowed by Him who creates us. In the\r\noriginal evil there are two things, sin and punishment; in the\r\noriginal good, there are two other things, propagation and\r\nconformation. But of the evils, of which the one, sin, arose\r\nfrom our audacity, and the other, punishment, from God's\r\njudgment, we have already said as much as suits our present\r\npurpose. I mean now to speak of the blessings which God\r\nhas conferred or still confers upon our nature, vitiated and\r\ncondemned as it is. For in condemning it He did not withdraw\r\nall that He had given it, else it had been annihilated;\r\nneither did He, in penally subjecting it to the devil, remove\r\nit beyond His own power; for not even the devil himself is\r\noutside of God's government, since the devil's nature subsists\r\nonly by the supreme Creator, who gives being to all that in\r\nany form exists.</p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK TWENTY-SECOND.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-827"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"75fd245b779c4dd9a44e88bce349a400a3f9b74c8d649472992aab17a2e1f806","edition_title":"The City of God, Volume II","edition_translators":["Marcus Dods","George Wilson (Books XVII-XVIII)"],"edition_year":1871,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"GEN","chapter":1,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Gen. i. 28","verse":28,"verse_end":28}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45305-Footnote_1016_1016","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_1016_1016","source_ebook":45305,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_1016_1016\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_1016_1016\"><span class=\"label\">[1016]</span></a> Gen. i. 28.</p></div>","source_sha256":"7e0ced9e70512f3cf050b53c9d548e36b70d468d875153869f95d8aff5bbb530","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45305/pg45305-images.html#Footnote_1016_1016","text_sha256":"f81d13f5703cf1089faf42f244f5804fa3cc83273bc0f61d7d87f283adcee57d","verified":false,"work_id":null}