{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>We might have supposed that the words uttered at the\r\ncreation of man, \"Let us,\" and not Let me, \"make man,\" were\r\naddressed to the angels, had He not added \"in our image;\"\r\nbut as we cannot believe that man was made in the image of\r\nangels, or that the image of God is the same as that of angels,\r\nit is proper to refer this expression to the plurality of the\r\nTrinity. And yet this Trinity, being one God, even after\r\nsaying \"Let <i>us</i> make,\" goes on to say, \"And God made man\r\nin His image,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_241_241\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_241_241\">[241]</a> and not \"Gods made,\" or \"in their image.\"\r\nAnd were there any difficulty in applying to the angels the\r\nwords, \"Come, and let us go down and confound their speech,\"\r\nwe might refer the plural to the Trinity, as if the Father were\r\naddressing the Son and the Holy Spirit; but it rather belongs\r\nto the angels to approach God by holy movements, that is,\r\nby pious thoughts, and thereby to avail themselves of the unchangeable\r\ntruth which rules in the court of heaven as their\r\neternal law. For they are not themselves the truth; but partaking\r\nin the creative truth, they are moved towards it as the\r\nfountain of life, that what they have not in themselves they\r\nmay obtain in it. And this movement of theirs is steady,\r\nfor they never go back from what they have reached. And\r\nto these angels God does not speak, as we speak to one another,\r\nor to God, or to angels, or as the angels speak to us, or\r\nas God speaks to us through them: He speaks to them in an\r\nineffable manner of His own, and that which He says is conveyed\r\nto us in a manner suited to our capacity. For the\r\nspeaking of God antecedent and superior to all His works,\r\nis the immutable reason of His work: it has no noisy and\r\npassing sound, but an energy eternally abiding and producing\r\nresults in time. Thus He speaks to the holy angels; but to\r\nus, who are far off, He speaks otherwise. When, however, we<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_115\">[Pg 115]</a></span>\r\nhear with the inner ear some part of the speech of God, we\r\napproximate to the angels. But in this work I need not\r\nlabour to give an account of the ways in which God speaks.\r\nFor either the unchangeable Truth speaks directly to the mind\r\nof the rational creature in some indescribable way, or speaks\r\nthrough the changeable creature, either presenting spiritual\r\nimages to our spirit, or bodily voices to our bodily sense.</p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK SIXTEENTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-189"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"8a1d6e5153a0262ddf165690d8e8530ae9e957cdf3611677a0b95df452a4be71","edition_title":"The City of God, Volume II","edition_translators":["Marcus Dods","George Wilson (Books XVII-XVIII)"],"edition_year":1871,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"GEN","chapter":1,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Gen. i. 26","verse":26,"verse_end":26}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45305-Footnote_241_241","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_241_241","source_ebook":45305,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_241_241\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_241_241\"><span class=\"label\">[241]</span></a> Gen. i. 26.</p></div>","source_sha256":"7e0ced9e70512f3cf050b53c9d548e36b70d468d875153869f95d8aff5bbb530","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45305/pg45305-images.html#Footnote_241_241","text_sha256":"bacc41f6b96e7995f321f930d3d78d59617e31ec03fc46f96f901ba404384aa2","verified":false,"work_id":null}