{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>For God would never have created any, I do not say angel,\r\nbut even man, whose future wickedness He foreknew, unless\r\nHe had equally known to what uses in behalf of the good\r\nHe could turn him, thus embellishing the course of the\r\nages, as it were an exquisite poem set off with antitheses.\r\nFor what are called antitheses are among the most elegant\r\nof the ornaments of speech. They might be called in Latin\r\n\"oppositions,\" or, to speak more accurately, \"contrapositions;\"\r\nbut this word is not in common use among us,<a id=\"FNanchor_483_483\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_483_483\">[483]</a> though the\r\nLatin, and indeed the languages of all nations, avail themselves\r\nof the same ornaments of style. In the Second Epistle\r\nto the Corinthians the Apostle Paul also makes a graceful use\r\nof antithesis, in that place where he says, \"By the armour of\r\nrighteousness on the right hand and on the left, by honour\r\nand dishonour, by evil report and good report: as deceivers,\r\nand yet true; as unknown, and yet well known; as dying,\r\nand, behold, we live; as chastened, and not killed; as sorrowful,\r\nyet alway rejoicing; as poor, yet making many rich; as\r\nhaving nothing, and yet possessing all things.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_484_484\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_484_484\">[484]</a> As, then,\r\nthese oppositions of contraries lend beauty to the language,\r\nso the beauty of the course of this world is achieved by the\r\nopposition of contraries, arranged, as it were, by an eloquence\r\nnot of words, but of things. This is quite plainly stated in\r\nthe Book of Ecclesiasticus, in this way: \"Good is set against\r\nevil, and life against death: so is the sinner against the godly.\r\nSo look upon all the works of the Most High, and these are\r\ntwo and two, one against another.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_485_485\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_485_485\">[485]</a></p>","headings":["THE WORKS OF AURELIUS AUGUSTINE,","BOOK ELEVENTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45304-paragraph-792"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"02a7fc67a33fcbdcc89d272fa6605ecd6a66212a48615d2d1f5b8a4ce5e6fa8a","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":"SIR","chapter":33,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Ecclus. xxxiii. 15","verse":15,"verse_end":15}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45304-Footnote_485_485","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_485_485","source_ebook":45304,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_485_485\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_485_485\"><span class=\"label\">[485]</span></a> Ecclus. xxxiii. 15.</p></div>","source_sha256":"d89e9a2b80bb59f394f0fb1bf313b39fab162f06af6642166d62c5912c1195f1","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45304/pg45304-images.html#Footnote_485_485","text_sha256":"f19906ce57ad9adcb7d212decd79c69cbd7d54053f776ca91785fc559ed1eb22","verified":false,"work_id":null}