{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>I propose, with such ability as God may grant me, to\r\ndiscuss in this book more thoroughly the nature of the\r\npunishment which shall be assigned to the devil and all his\r\nretainers, when the two cities, the one of God, the other of\r\nthe devil, shall have reached their proper ends through Jesus\r\nChrist our Lord, the Judge of quick and dead. And I have\r\nadopted this order, and preferred to speak, first of the punishment\r\nof the devils, and afterwards of the blessedness of the\r\nsaints, because the <i>body</i> partakes of either destiny; and it\r\nseems to be more incredible that bodies endure in everlasting\r\ntorments than that they continue to exist without any pain\r\nin everlasting felicity. Consequently, when I shall have\r\ndemonstrated that that punishment ought not to be incredible,\r\nthis will materially aid me in proving that which is much\r\nmore credible, viz. the immortality of the bodies of the saints\r\nwhich are delivered from all pain. Neither is this order out\r\nof harmony with the divine writings, in which sometimes,\r\nindeed, the blessedness of the good is placed first, as in the\r\nwords, \"They that have done good, unto the resurrection of\r\nlife; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of\r\ndamnation;\"<a id=\"FNanchor_852_852\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_852_852\">[852]</a> but sometimes also last, as, \"The Son of man\r\nshall send forth His angels, and they shall gather out of His\r\nkingdom all things which offend, and shall cast them into a\r\nfurnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth.<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_414\">[Pg 414]</a></span>\r\nThen shall the righteous shine forth as the sun in the kingdom\r\nof His Father;\"<a id=\"FNanchor_853_853\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_853_853\">[853]</a> and that, \"These shall go away into\r\neverlasting punishment, but the righteous into life eternal.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_854_854\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_854_854\">[854]</a>\r\nAnd though we have not room to cite instances, any one who\r\nexamines the prophets will find that they adopt now the one\r\narrangement and now the other. My own reason for following\r\nthe latter order I have given.</p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK TWENTY-FIRST.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-651"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"336a0575a45006d2b3af351fe06ed426ef47824a1eb0c5222c7220b6981edd1e","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":5,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"John v. 29","verse":29,"verse_end":29}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45305-Footnote_852_852","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_852_852","source_ebook":45305,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_852_852\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_852_852\"><span class=\"label\">[852]</span></a> John v. 29.</p></div>","source_sha256":"7e0ced9e70512f3cf050b53c9d548e36b70d468d875153869f95d8aff5bbb530","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45305/pg45305-images.html#Footnote_852_852","text_sha256":"eaa3438772c68ce3ba081b4df96009a56a8bf198bf2586baebf94eef840af13e","verified":false,"work_id":null}