{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>How great shall be that felicity, which shall be tainted with\r\nno evil, which shall lack no good, and which shall afford\r\nleisure for the praises of God, who shall be all in all! For I\r\nknow not what other employment there can be where no lassitude\r\nshall slacken activity, nor any want stimulate to labour.\r\nI am admonished also by the sacred song, in which I read or\r\nhear the words, \"Blessed are they that dwell in Thy house,\r\nO Lord; they will be still praising Thee.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_1048_1048\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1048_1048\">[1048]</a> All the members\r\nand organs of the incorruptible body, which now we see to be\r\nsuited to various necessary uses, shall contribute to the praises\r\nof God; for in that life necessity shall have no place, but full,<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_541\">[Pg 541]</a></span>\r\ncertain, secure, everlasting felicity. For all those parts<a id=\"FNanchor_1049_1049\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1049_1049\">[1049]</a> of the\r\nbodily harmony, which are distributed through the whole body,\r\nwithin and without, and of which I have just been saying\r\nthat they at present elude our observation, shall then be discerned;\r\nand, along with the other great and marvellous discoveries\r\nwhich shall then kindle rational minds in praise of\r\nthe great Artificer, there shall be the enjoyment of a beauty\r\nwhich appeals to the reason. What power of movement such\r\nbodies shall possess, I have not the audacity rashly to define,\r\nas I have not the ability to conceive. Nevertheless I will say\r\nthat in any case, both in motion and at rest, they shall be,\r\nas in their appearance, seemly; for into that state nothing\r\nwhich is unseemly shall be admitted. One thing is certain,\r\nthe body shall forthwith be wherever the spirit wills, and the\r\nspirit shall will nothing which is unbecoming either to the\r\nspirit or to the body. True honour shall be there, for it shall\r\nbe denied to none who is worthy, nor yielded to any unworthy;\r\nneither shall any unworthy person so much as sue for it, for\r\nnone but the worthy shall be there. True peace shall be\r\nthere, where no one shall suffer opposition either from himself\r\nor any other. God Himself, who is the Author of virtue,\r\nshall there be its reward; for, as there is nothing greater or\r\nbetter, He has promised Himself. What else was meant by\r\nHis word through the prophet, \"I will be your God, and ye\r\nshall be my people,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_1050_1050\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1050_1050\">[1050]</a> than, I shall be their satisfaction, I shall\r\nbe all that men honourably desire,—life, and health, and nourishment,\r\nand plenty, and glory, and honour, and peace, and all\r\ngood things? This, too, is the right interpretation of the saying\r\nof the apostle, \"That God may be all in all.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_1051_1051\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1051_1051\">[1051]</a> He shall be\r\nthe end of our desires who shall be seen without end, loved\r\nwithout cloy, praised without weariness. This outgoing of\r\naffection, this employment, shall certainly be, like eternal life\r\nitself, common to all.</p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK TWENTY-SECOND.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-848"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"ae921446a1eefe4872fca2b9dc51cf67ad27926ffb79e5ce0a7906bc1e4711cd","edition_title":"The City of God, Volume II","edition_translators":["Marcus Dods","George Wilson (Books XVII-XVIII)"],"edition_year":1871,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"1CO","chapter":15,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"1 Cor. xv. 28","verse":28,"verse_end":28}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45305-Footnote_1051_1051","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. 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