{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>It is then, I say, the same reason which prevents the<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_453\">[Pg 453]</a></span>\r\nChurch at any time from praying for the wicked angels, which\r\nprevents her from praying hereafter for those men who are to\r\nbe punished in eternal fire; and this also is the reason why,\r\nthough she prays even for the wicked so long as they live,\r\nshe yet does not even in this world pray for the unbelieving\r\nand godless who are dead. For some of the dead, indeed, the\r\nprayer of the Church or of pious individuals is heard; but it\r\nis for those who, having been regenerated in Christ, did not\r\nspend their life so wickedly that they can be judged unworthy\r\nof such compassion, nor so well that they can be considered\r\nto have no need of it. As also, after the resurrection, there\r\nwill be some of the dead to whom, after they have endured\r\nthe pains proper to the spirits of the dead, mercy shall be\r\naccorded, and acquittal from the punishment of eternal fire.\r\nFor were there not some whose sins, though not remitted in\r\nthis life, shall be remitted in that which is to come, it could\r\nnot be truly said, \"They shall not be forgiven, neither in this\r\nworld, neither in that which is to come.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_906_906\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_906_906\">[906]</a> But when the Judge\r\nof quick and dead has said, \"Come, ye blessed of my Father,\r\ninherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of\r\nthe world,\" and to those on the other side, \"Depart from me,\r\nye cursed, into the eternal fire, which is prepared for the\r\ndevil and his angels,\" and \"These shall go away into eternal\r\npunishment, but the righteous into eternal life,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_907_907\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_907_907\">[907]</a> it were\r\nexcessively presumptuous to say that the punishment of any\r\nof those whom God has said shall go away into eternal\r\npunishment shall not be eternal, and so bring either despair\r\nor doubt upon the corresponding promise of life eternal.</p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK TWENTY-FIRST.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-718"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"a8ee4186939e6a58b2e00df04a483587cc2726b576a744202aaf591f6a12926b","edition_title":"The City of God, Volume II","edition_translators":["Marcus Dods","George Wilson (Books XVII-XVIII)"],"edition_year":1871,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"MAT","chapter":25,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Matt. xxv. 34","verse":34,"verse_end":34}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45305-Footnote_907_907","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_907_907","source_ebook":45305,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_907_907\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_907_907\"><span class=\"label\">[907]</span></a> Matt. xxv. 34, 41, 46.</p></div>","source_sha256":"7e0ced9e70512f3cf050b53c9d548e36b70d468d875153869f95d8aff5bbb530","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45305/pg45305-images.html#Footnote_907_907","text_sha256":"0365cf9621c728e7985b3f6d41be00f02837c5f30636b504d57239ffaa30498a","verified":false,"work_id":null}