{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>The Platonists, indeed, while they maintain that no sins\r\nare unpunished, suppose that all punishment is administered\r\nfor remedial purposes,<a id=\"FNanchor_878_878\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_878_878\">[878]</a> be it inflicted by human or divine law,\r\nin this life or after death; for a man may be scathless here,\r\nor, though punished, may yet not amend. Hence that passage<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_439\">[Pg 439]</a></span>\r\nof Virgil, where, when he had said of our earthly bodies and\r\nmortal members, that our souls derive—</p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK TWENTY-FIRST.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-691"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"ea897823ab1d9930b5056147ab3adc9b521a328a63b0563d0a57fcb653eba75b","edition_title":"The City of God, Volume II","edition_translators":["Marcus Dods","George Wilson (Books XVII-XVIII)"],"edition_year":1871,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg45305-Footnote_878_878","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_878_878","source_ebook":45305,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_878_878\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_878_878\"><span class=\"label\">[878]</span></a> Plato's own theory was that punishment had a twofold purpose, to reform\r\nand to deter. \"No one punishes an offender on account of the past offence,\r\nand simply because he has done wrong, but for the sake of the future, that the\r\noffence may not be again committed, either by the same person or by any one\r\nwho has seen him punished.\"—See the <i>Protagoras</i>, 324, b, and Grote's <i>Plato</i>,\r\nii. 41.</p></div>","source_sha256":"7e0ced9e70512f3cf050b53c9d548e36b70d468d875153869f95d8aff5bbb530","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45305/pg45305-images.html#Footnote_878_878","text_sha256":"6095d98287738c31ab876ba7912d41bf6a78e0340e456370df49a3f1c912238d","verified":false,"work_id":null}