{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>But in what way shall the good go out to see the punishment\r\nof the wicked? Are they to leave their happy abodes\r\nby a bodily movement, and proceed to the places of punishment,\r\nso as to witness the torments of the wicked in their\r\nbodily presence? Certainly not; but they shall go out by\r\nknowledge. For this expression, <i>go out</i>, signifies that those\r\nwho shall be punished shall be without. And thus the Lord\r\nalso calls these places \"the outer darkness,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_790_790\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_790_790\">[790]</a> to which is\r\nopposed that entrance concerning which it is said to the\r\ngood servant, \"Enter into the joy of thy Lord,\" that it may\r\nnot be supposed that the wicked can enter thither and be\r\nknown, but rather that the good by their knowledge go out\r\nto them, because the good are to know that which is without.\r\nFor those who shall be in torment shall not know what is\r\ngoing on within in the joy of the Lord; but they who shall\r\nenter into that joy shall know what is going on outside in\r\nthe outer darkness. Therefore it is said, \"They shall go<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_393\">[Pg 393]</a></span>\r\nout,\" because they shall know what is done by those who are\r\nwithout. For if the prophets were able to know things that\r\nhad not yet happened, by means of that indwelling of God in\r\ntheir minds, limited though it was, shall not the immortal\r\nsaints know things that have already happened, when God\r\nshall be all in all?<a id=\"FNanchor_791_791\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_791_791\">[791]</a> The seed, then, and the name of the\r\nsaints shall remain in that blessedness,—the seed, to wit, of\r\nwhich John says, \"And his seed remaineth in him;\"<a id=\"FNanchor_792_792\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_792_792\">[792]</a> and the\r\nname, of which it was said through Isaiah himself, \"I will\r\ngive them an everlasting name.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_793_793\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_793_793\">[793]</a> \"And there shall be to\r\nthem month after month, and Sabbath after Sabbath,\" as if it\r\nwere said, Moon after moon, and rest upon rest, both of which\r\nthey shall themselves be when they shall pass from the old\r\nshadows of time into the new lights of eternity. The worm\r\nthat dieth not, and the fire that is not quenched, which constitute\r\nthe punishment of the wicked, are differently interpreted\r\nby different people. For some refer both to the body,\r\nothers refer both to the soul; while others again refer the fire\r\nliterally to the body, and the worm figuratively to the soul,\r\nwhich seems the more credible idea. But the present is not\r\nthe time to discuss this difference, for we have undertaken to\r\noccupy this book with the last judgment, in which the good\r\nand the bad are separated: their rewards and punishments we\r\nshall more carefully discuss elsewhere.</p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK TWENTIETH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-622"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"c1c6f5eb7eeab8a619f37dab24ce1ba7b02eaa7bc4ff06e2acaf9c2bc3e98845","edition_title":"The City of God, Volume II","edition_translators":["Marcus Dods","George Wilson (Books XVII-XVIII)"],"edition_year":1871,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"ISA","chapter":56,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Isa. lvi. 5","verse":5,"verse_end":5}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45305-Footnote_793_793","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_793_793","source_ebook":45305,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_793_793\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_793_793\"><span class=\"label\">[793]</span></a> Isa. lvi. 5.</p></div>","source_sha256":"7e0ced9e70512f3cf050b53c9d548e36b70d468d875153869f95d8aff5bbb530","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45305/pg45305-images.html#Footnote_793_793","text_sha256":"4ffc023c284b5270a60a936570c678298ac492ac12d4ca197f7ea7d369f1b08a","verified":false,"work_id":null}