{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>But so long as the will retains under its authority the other\r\nmembers, without which the members excited by lust to resist\r\nthe will cannot accomplish what they seek, chastity is preserved,\r\nand the delight of sin foregone. And certainly, had\r\nnot culpable disobedience been visited with penal disobedience,\r\nthe marriage of Paradise should have been ignorant of this\r\nstruggle and rebellion, this quarrel between will and lust, that\r\nthe will may be satisfied and lust restrained, but those members,\r\nlike all the rest, should have obeyed the will. The field\r\nof generation<a id=\"FNanchor_119_119\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_119_119\">[119]</a> should have been sown by the organ created\r\nfor this purpose, as the earth is sown by the hand. And<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_41\">[Pg 41]</a></span>\r\nwhereas now, as we essay to investigate this subject more\r\nexactly, modesty hinders us, and compels us to ask pardon of\r\nchaste ears, there would have been no cause to do so, but we\r\ncould have discoursed freely, and without fear of seeming\r\nobscene, upon all those points which occur to one who meditates\r\non the subject. There would not have been even words\r\nwhich could be called obscene, but all that might be said of\r\nthese members would have been as pure as what is said of\r\nthe other parts of the body. Whoever, then, comes to the\r\nperusal of these pages with unchaste mind, let him blame his\r\ndisposition, not his nature; let him brand the actings of his\r\nown impurity, not the words which necessity forces us to use,\r\nand for which every pure and pious reader or hearer will very\r\nreadily pardon me, while I expose the folly of that scepticism\r\nwhich argues solely on the ground of its own experience, and\r\nhas no faith in anything beyond. He who is not scandalized\r\nat the apostle's censure of the horrible wickedness of the women\r\nwho \"changed the natural use into that which is against\r\nnature,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_120_120\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_120_120\">[120]</a> will read all this without being shocked, especially\r\nas we are not, like Paul, citing and censuring a damnable uncleanness,\r\nbut are explaining, so far as we can, human generation,\r\nwhile with Paul we avoid all obscenity of language.</p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK FOURTEENTH.[1]","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-82"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"6430913a61769438e87cbdf65a40444607ea20116ae45ff157fea5e7075aa65a","edition_title":"The City of God, Volume II","edition_translators":["Marcus Dods","George Wilson (Books XVII-XVIII)"],"edition_year":1871,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"ROM","chapter":1,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Rom. i. 26","verse":26,"verse_end":26}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45305-Footnote_120_120","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_120_120","source_ebook":45305,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_120_120\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_120_120\"><span class=\"label\">[120]</span></a> Rom. i. 26.</p></div>","source_sha256":"7e0ced9e70512f3cf050b53c9d548e36b70d468d875153869f95d8aff5bbb530","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45305/pg45305-images.html#Footnote_120_120","text_sha256":"86adb1512686b0f15c7504d709f39f5e176d71c460427d699bbded18c930f4bf","verified":false,"work_id":null}