{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Even Porphyry asserts that it was revealed by divine\r\noracles that we are not purified by any sacrifices<a id=\"FNanchor_411_411\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_411_411\">[411]</a> to sun\r\nor moon, meaning it to be inferred that we are not purified\r\nby sacrificing to any gods. For what mysteries can purify,\r\nif those of the sun and moon, which are esteemed the chief\r\nof the celestial gods, do not purify? He says, too, in the\r\nsame place, that \"principles\" can purify, lest it should be\r\nsupposed, from his saying that sacrificing to the sun and\r\nmoon cannot purify, that sacrificing to some other of the host\r\nof gods might do so. And what he as a Platonist means by\r\n\"principles,\" we know.<a id=\"FNanchor_412_412\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_412_412\">[412]</a> For he speaks of God the Father and\r\nGod the Son, whom he calls (writing in Greek) the intellect\r\nor mind of the Father;<a id=\"FNanchor_413_413\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_413_413\">[413]</a> but of the Holy Spirit he says either\r\nnothing, or nothing plainly, for I do not understand what other\r\nhe speaks of as holding the middle place between these two.<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_414\">[Pg 414]</a></span>\r\nFor if, like Plotinus in his discussion regarding the three\r\nprincipal substances,<a id=\"FNanchor_414_414\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_414_414\">[414]</a> he wished us to understand by this\r\nthird the soul of nature, he would certainly not have given\r\nit the middle place between these two, that is, between the\r\nFather and the Son. For Plotinus places the soul of nature\r\nafter the intellect of the Father, while Porphyry, making it\r\nthe mean, does not place it after, but between the others.\r\nNo doubt he spoke according to his light, or as he thought\r\nexpedient; but we assert that the Holy Spirit is the Spirit\r\nnot of the Father only, nor of the Son only, but of both.\r\nFor philosophers speak as they have a mind to, and in the\r\nmost difficult matters do not scruple to offend religious ears;\r\nbut we are bound to speak according to a certain rule, lest\r\nfreedom of speech beget impiety of opinion about the matters\r\nthemselves of which we speak.</p>","headings":["THE WORKS OF AURELIUS AUGUSTINE,","BOOK TENTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45304-paragraph-729"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"4e0e307abce3754529e75a9e35bceb633ccd059638e19dcc80a3ecd300b16f49","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_412_412","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_412_412","source_ebook":45304,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_412_412\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_412_412\"><span class=\"label\">[412]</span></a> The Platonists of the Alexandrian and Athenian schools, from Plotinus to\r\nProclus, are at one in recognising in God three principles or hypostases: 1st,\r\nthe One or the Good, which is the Father; 2d, the Intelligence or Word, which\r\nis the Son; 3d, the Soul, which is the universal principle of life. But as to\r\nthe nature and order of these hypostases, the Alexandrians are no longer at one\r\nwith the school of Athens. On the very subtle differences between the Trinity\r\nof Plotinus and that of Porphyry, consult M. Jules Simon, ii. 110, and M.\r\nVacherot, ii. 37.—<span class=\"smcap\">Saisset.</span></p></div>","source_sha256":"d89e9a2b80bb59f394f0fb1bf313b39fab162f06af6642166d62c5912c1195f1","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45304/pg45304-images.html#Footnote_412_412","text_sha256":"ce2015752967976b834c8418c637a40b6b100680cd42c4ef6bf25d69c55a9c85","verified":false,"work_id":null}