{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Since, then, Scripture uses the word flesh in many ways,\r\nwhich there is not time to collect and investigate, if we are to\r\nascertain what it is to live after the flesh (which is certainly\r\nevil, though the nature of flesh is not itself evil), we must\r\ncarefully examine that passage of the epistle which the\r\nApostle Paul wrote to the Galatians, in which he says, \"Now\r\nthe works of the flesh are manifest, which are these: adultery,\r\nfornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, idolatry, witchcraft,\r\nhatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies,\r\nenvyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of\r\nthe which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time\r\npast, that they which do such things shall not inherit the\r\nkingdom of God.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_8_8\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_8_8\">[8]</a> This whole passage of the apostolic\r\nepistle being considered, so far as it bears on the matter in\r\nhand, will be sufficient to answer the question, what it is to\r\nlive after the flesh. For among the works of the flesh which\r\nhe said were manifest, and which he cited for condemnation,\r\nwe find not only those which concern the pleasure of the\r\nflesh, as fornications, uncleanness, lasciviousness, drunkenness,\r\nrevellings, but also those which, though they be remote from\r\nfleshly pleasure, reveal the vices of the soul. For who does\r\nnot see that idolatries, witchcrafts, hatreds, variance, emulations,\r\nwrath, strife, heresies, envyings, are vices rather of the\r\nsoul than of the flesh? For it is quite possible for a man to\r\nabstain from fleshly pleasures for the sake of idolatry or some\r\nheretical error; and yet, even when he does so, he is proved by\r\nthis apostolic authority to be living after the flesh; and in<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_4\">[Pg 4]</a></span>\r\nabstaining from fleshly pleasure, he is proved to be practising\r\ndamnable works of the flesh. Who that has enmity has it\r\nnot in his soul? or who would say to his enemy, or to the\r\nman he thinks his enemy, You have a bad flesh towards me,\r\nand not rather, You have a bad spirit towards me? In fine,\r\nif any one heard of what I may call \"carnalities,\" he would\r\nnot fail to attribute them to the carnal part of man; so no\r\none doubts that \"animosities\" belong to the soul of man.\r\nWhy then does the doctor of the Gentiles in faith and verity\r\ncall all these and similar things works of the flesh, unless\r\nbecause, by that mode of speech whereby the part is used for\r\nthe whole, he means us to understand by the word flesh the\r\nman himself?</p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK FOURTEENTH.[1]","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-21"}],"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_8_8","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_8_8","source_ebook":45305,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_8_8\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_8_8\"><span class=\"label\">[8]</span></a> Gal. v. 19-21.</p></div>","source_sha256":"7e0ced9e70512f3cf050b53c9d548e36b70d468d875153869f95d8aff5bbb530","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45305/pg45305-images.html#Footnote_8_8","text_sha256":"67107ef72b2e4f6b842d0034ec7891a7c289e76fb06b50b6961b8f9ac0158f93","verified":false,"work_id":null}