{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>But, say they, the catholic Christians have Christ for a\r\nfoundation, and they have not fallen away from union with\r\nHim, no matter how depraved a life they have built on this\r\nfoundation, as wood, hay, stubble; and accordingly the well-directed\r\nfaith by which Christ is their foundation will suffice\r\nto deliver them some time from the continuance of that fire,\r\nthough it be with loss, since those things they have built on\r\nit shall be burned. Let the Apostle James summarily reply\r\nto them: \"If any man say he has faith, and have not works,\r\ncan faith save him?\"<a id=\"FNanchor_929_929\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_929_929\">[929]</a> And who then is it, they ask, of\r\nwhom the Apostle Paul says, \"But he himself shall be saved,\r\nyet so as by fire?\"<a id=\"FNanchor_930_930\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_930_930\">[930]</a> Let us join them in their inquiry; and\r\none thing is very certain, that it is not he of whom James\r\nspeaks, else we should make the two apostles contradict one\r\nanother, if the one says, \"Though a man's works be evil, his\r\nfaith will save him as by fire,\" while the other says, \"If he\r\nhave not good works, can his faith save him?\"</p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK TWENTY-FIRST.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-729"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"522a58ac05d0b53097a6228e6f0d0e529da5e279dc616276628bbc3f52315f6a","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_929_929","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_929_929","source_ebook":45305,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_929_929\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_929_929\"><span class=\"label\">[929]</span></a> Jas. ii. 14.</p></div>","source_sha256":"7e0ced9e70512f3cf050b53c9d548e36b70d468d875153869f95d8aff5bbb530","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45305/pg45305-images.html#Footnote_929_929","text_sha256":"29c1cce0e7f2ce5e374b75cb7c7bd6bf02edef8c09ae127ae3806533e85aa3f5","verified":false,"work_id":null}