{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Now, therefore, with regard to those to whom God did not<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_207\">[Pg 207]</a></span>\r\npurpose to give eternal life with His holy angels in His own\r\ncelestial city, to the society of which that true piety which\r\ndoes not render the service of religion, which the Greeks call\r\nλατρεία, to any save the true God conducts, if He had also\r\nwithheld from them the terrestrial glory of that most excellent\r\nempire, a reward would not have been rendered to their good\r\narts,—that is, their virtues,—by which they sought to attain\r\nso great glory. For as to those who seem to do some good\r\nthat they may receive glory from men, the Lord also says,\r\n\"Verily I say unto you, they have received their reward.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_211_211\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_211_211\">[211]</a>\r\nSo also these despised their own private affairs for the sake\r\nof the republic, and for its treasury resisted avarice, consulted\r\nfor the good of their country with a spirit of freedom, addicted\r\nneither to what their laws pronounced to be crime nor to lust.\r\nBy all these acts, as by the true way, they pressed forward to\r\nhonours, power, and glory; they were honoured among almost\r\nall nations; they imposed the laws of their empire upon many\r\nnations; and at this day, both in literature and history, they\r\nare glorious among almost all nations. There is no reason why\r\nthey should complain against the justice of the supreme and\r\ntrue God,—\"they have received their reward.\"</p>","headings":["THE WORKS OF AURELIUS AUGUSTINE,","BOOK FIFTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45304-paragraph-389"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"4c460b8908c1febaf5693098632709ec0261567319301b474d8f744fbffb7f98","edition_title":"The City of God, Volume I","edition_translators":["Marcus Dods","George Wilson (Book IV)","J. J. Smith (Books V-VIII)"],"edition_year":1871,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"MAT","chapter":6,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Matt. vi. 2","verse":2,"verse_end":2}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45304-Footnote_211_211","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_211_211","source_ebook":45304,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_211_211\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_211_211\"><span class=\"label\">[211]</span></a> Matt. vi. 2.</p></div>","source_sha256":"d89e9a2b80bb59f394f0fb1bf313b39fab162f06af6642166d62c5912c1195f1","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45304/pg45304-images.html#Footnote_211_211","text_sha256":"cdd9e9aeecace5635f1c8b4ed932d67d1e8a8499593037f072927e672f4000f0","verified":false,"work_id":null}