{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>This Mediator, having spoken what He judged sufficient,\r\nfirst by the prophets, then by His own lips, and afterwards by\r\nthe apostles, has besides produced the Scripture which is called\r\ncanonical, which has paramount authority, and to which we\r\nyield assent in all matters of which we ought not to be\r\nignorant, and yet cannot know of ourselves. For if we attain\r\nthe knowledge of present objects by the testimony of our own\r\nsenses,<a id=\"FNanchor_446_446\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_446_446\">[446]</a> whether internal or external, then, regarding objects\r\nremote from our own senses, we need others to bring their<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_439\">[Pg 439]</a></span>\r\ntestimony, since we cannot know them by our own, and we\r\ncredit the persons to whom the objects have been or are\r\nsensibly present. Accordingly, as in the case of visible objects\r\nwhich we have not seen, we trust those who have, (and likewise\r\nwith all sensible objects,) so in the case of things which\r\nare perceived<a id=\"FNanchor_447_447\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_447_447\">[447]</a> by the mind and spirit, <i>i.e.</i> which are remote\r\nfrom our own interior sense, it behoves us to trust those who\r\nhave seen them set in that incorporeal light, or abidingly\r\ncontemplate them.</p>","headings":["THE WORKS OF AURELIUS AUGUSTINE,","BOOK ELEVENTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45304-paragraph-759"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"b0919367aa372fc498ce635767261d6ea1c03185b3987fa08edd1d12c2f8c52d","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":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg45304-Footnote_447_447","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_447_447","source_ebook":45304,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_447_447\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_447_447\"><span class=\"label\">[447]</span></a> Another derivation, <i>sententia</i> from <i>sensus</i>, the inward perception of the\r\nmind.</p></div>","source_sha256":"d89e9a2b80bb59f394f0fb1bf313b39fab162f06af6642166d62c5912c1195f1","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45304/pg45304-images.html#Footnote_447_447","text_sha256":"ddec4a0a8aee23184a4ebf54fa0a6ae05d7147885f9f2565a6ac87f8932e25ed","verified":false,"work_id":null}