{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>But let us now reply to those who promise deliverance\r\nfrom eternal fire, not to the devil and his angels (as neither\r\ndo they of whom we have been speaking), nor even to all\r\nmen whatever, but only to those who have been washed by\r\nthe baptism of Christ, and have become partakers of His body\r\nand blood, no matter how they have lived, no matter what\r\nheresy or impiety they have fallen into. But they are contradicted\r\nby the apostle, where he says, \"Now the works of\r\nthe flesh are manifest, which are these; fornication, uncleanness,\r\nlasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variances,\r\nemulations, wrath, strife, heresies, envyings, drunkenness,\r\nrevellings, and the like: of the which I tell you before, as I\r\nhave also told you in time past, for they which do such\r\nthings shall not inherit the kingdom of God.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_923_923\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_923_923\">[923]</a> Certainly\r\nthis sentence of the apostle is false, if such persons shall be\r\ndelivered after any lapse of time, and shall then inherit the\r\nkingdom of God. But as it is not false, they shall certainly<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_458\">[Pg 458]</a></span>\r\nnever inherit the kingdom of God. And if they shall never\r\nenter that kingdom, then they shall always be retained in\r\neternal punishment; for there is no middle place where he\r\nmay live unpunished who has not been admitted into that\r\nkingdom.</p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK TWENTY-FIRST.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-724"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"81021e2b592617769508eb6c270cd13e61eb0f38949b8d10f0c77fab1066582c","edition_title":"The City of God, Volume II","edition_translators":["Marcus Dods","George Wilson (Books XVII-XVIII)"],"edition_year":1871,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"GAL","chapter":5,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Gal. v. 19-21","verse":19,"verse_end":21}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45305-Footnote_923_923","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_923_923","source_ebook":45305,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_923_923\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_923_923\"><span class=\"label\">[923]</span></a> Gal. v. 19-21.</p></div>","source_sha256":"7e0ced9e70512f3cf050b53c9d548e36b70d468d875153869f95d8aff5bbb530","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45305/pg45305-images.html#Footnote_923_923","text_sha256":"67107ef72b2e4f6b842d0034ec7891a7c289e76fb06b50b6961b8f9ac0158f93","verified":false,"work_id":null}