{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Accordingly, this seems to me to be one principal reason\r\nwhy the good are chastised along with the wicked, when God\r\nis pleased to visit with temporal punishments the profligate\r\nmanners of a community. They are punished together, not\r\nbecause they have spent an equally corrupt life, but because<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_14\">[Pg 14]</a></span>\r\nthe good as well as the wicked, though not equally with them,\r\nlove this present life; while they ought to hold it cheap, that\r\nthe wicked, being admonished and reformed by their example,\r\nmight lay hold of life eternal. And if they will not be the\r\ncompanions of the good in seeking life everlasting, they should\r\nbe loved as enemies, and be dealt with patiently. For so long\r\nas they live, it remains uncertain whether they may not come\r\nto a better mind. These selfish persons have more cause to\r\nfear than those to whom it was said through the prophet, \"He\r\nis taken away in his iniquity, but his blood will I require at\r\nthe watchman's hand.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_46_46\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_46_46\">[46]</a> For watchmen or overseers of the\r\npeople are appointed in churches, that they may unsparingly\r\nrebuke sin. Nor is that man guiltless of the sin we speak of,\r\nwho, though he be not a watchman, yet sees in the conduct of\r\nthose with whom the relationships of this life bring him into\r\ncontact, many things that should be blamed, and yet overlooks\r\nthem, fearing to give offence, and lose such worldly blessings\r\nas may legitimately be desired, but which he too eagerly\r\ngrasps. Then, lastly, there is another reason why the good\r\nare afflicted with temporal calamities—the reason which Job's\r\ncase exemplifies: that the human spirit may be proved, and\r\nthat it may be manifested with what fortitude of pious trust,\r\nand with how unmercenary a love, it cleaves to God.<a id=\"FNanchor_47_47\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_47_47\">[47]</a></p>","headings":["THE WORKS OF AURELIUS AUGUSTINE,","BOOK FIRST."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45304-paragraph-47"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"c82d70ff75607d953ce1271fb736850c05e13e14d04f67c25ca3821dd0f0d212","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":[{"book":"EZK","chapter":33,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Ezek. xxxiii. 6","verse":6,"verse_end":6}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45304-Footnote_46_46","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_46_46","source_ebook":45304,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_46_46\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_46_46\"><span class=\"label\">[46]</span></a> Ezek. xxxiii. 6.</p></div>","source_sha256":"d89e9a2b80bb59f394f0fb1bf313b39fab162f06af6642166d62c5912c1195f1","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45304/pg45304-images.html#Footnote_46_46","text_sha256":"40c9b9ab08f20c925ce48ee87d8a05ee294ebc16308aae9562b4c574e4d5fc17","verified":false,"work_id":null}