{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>But if the Creator is truly loved, that is, if He Himself is<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_92\">[Pg 92]</a></span>\r\nloved and not another thing in His stead, He cannot be\r\nevilly loved; for love itself is to be ordinately loved, because\r\nwe do well to love that which, when we love it, makes us live\r\nwell and virtuously. So that it seems to me that it is a brief\r\nbut true definition of virtue to say, it is the order of love;\r\nand on this account, in the Canticles, the bride of Christ, the\r\ncity of God, sings, \"Order love within me.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_204_204\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_204_204\">[204]</a> It was the\r\norder of this love, then, this charity or attachment, which the\r\nsons of God disturbed when they forsook God, and were enamoured\r\nof the daughters of men.<a id=\"FNanchor_205_205\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_205_205\">[205]</a> And by these two names\r\n(sons of God and daughters of men) the two cities are sufficiently\r\ndistinguished. For though the former were by nature\r\nchildren of men, they had come into possession of another\r\nname by grace. For in the same Scripture in which the sons\r\nof God are said to have loved the daughters of men, they are\r\nalso called angels of God; whence many suppose that they\r\nwere not men but angels.</p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK FIFTEENTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-154"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"70ed798058004669d4f657d8c8f2da50fcc55e4026c48889537893093d47a984","edition_title":"The City of God, Volume II","edition_translators":["Marcus Dods","George Wilson (Books XVII-XVIII)"],"edition_year":1871,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg45305-Footnote_204_204","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_204_204","source_ebook":45305,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_204_204\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_204_204\"><span class=\"label\">[204]</span></a> Cant. ii. 4.</p></div>","source_sha256":"7e0ced9e70512f3cf050b53c9d548e36b70d468d875153869f95d8aff5bbb530","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45305/pg45305-images.html#Footnote_204_204","text_sha256":"e60a58a011def7845cefb15b7268ccb0400eadad4841caea8d3b506f9926dc60","verified":false,"work_id":null}