{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>It is true that wicked men do many things contrary to God's\r\nwill; but so great is His wisdom and power, that all things\r\nwhich seem adverse to His purpose do still tend towards those\r\njust and good ends and issues which He Himself has foreknown.\r\nAnd consequently, when God is said to change His\r\nwill, as when, <i>e.g.</i>, He becomes angry with those to whom He\r\nwas gentle, it is rather they than He who are changed, and\r\nthey find Him changed in so far as their experience of suffering\r\nat His hand is new, as the sun is changed to injured eyes, and\r\nbecomes as it were fierce from being mild, and hurtful from\r\nbeing delightful, though in itself it remains the same as it\r\nwas. That also is called the will of God which He does in\r\nthe hearts of those who obey His commandments; and of this\r\nthe apostle says, \"For it is God that worketh in you both\r\nto will.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_962_962\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_962_962\">[962]</a> As God's \"righteousness\" is used not only of the\r\nrighteousness wherewith He Himself is righteous, but also of\r\nthat which He produces in the man whom He justifies, so also\r\nthat is called His law, which, though given by God, is rather\r\nthe law of men. For certainly they were men to whom Jesus\r\nsaid, \"It is written in your law,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_963_963\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_963_963\">[963]</a> though in another place\r\nwe read, \"The law of his God is in his heart.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_964_964\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_964_964\">[964]</a> According\r\nto this will which God works in men, He is said also to will\r\nwhat He Himself does not will, but causes His people to will;\r\nas He is said to know what He has caused those to know who\r\nwere ignorant of it. For when the apostle says, \"But now,\r\nafter that ye have known God, or rather are known of God,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_965_965\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_965_965\">[965]</a>\r\nwe cannot suppose that God there for the first time knew\r\nthose who were foreknown by Him before the foundation of\r\nthe world; but He is said to have known them then, because\r\nthen He caused them to know. But I remember that I discussed<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_475\">[Pg 475]</a></span>\r\nthese modes of expression in the preceding books.\r\nAccording to this will, then, by which we say that God wills\r\nwhat He causes to be willed by others, from whom the future\r\nis hidden, He wills many things which He does not perform.</p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK TWENTY-SECOND.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-746"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"30b449a22ffeedf350cc731ff0fe9a5e6111a249c182fca8bb8c747b3bf7f047","edition_title":"The City of God, Volume II","edition_translators":["Marcus Dods","George Wilson (Books XVII-XVIII)"],"edition_year":1871,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"JHN","chapter":8,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"John viii. 17","verse":17,"verse_end":17}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45305-Footnote_963_963","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_963_963","source_ebook":45305,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_963_963\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_963_963\"><span class=\"label\">[963]</span></a> John viii. 17.</p></div>","source_sha256":"7e0ced9e70512f3cf050b53c9d548e36b70d468d875153869f95d8aff5bbb530","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45305/pg45305-images.html#Footnote_963_963","text_sha256":"3fe127a1652616451a537916fc7e7ab9ab0ad61fe07a8e25cf786e1614bc8c9b","verified":false,"work_id":null}