{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>I own that I do not know what ages passed before the\r\nhuman race was created, yet I have no doubt that no created\r\nthing is co-eternal with the Creator. But even the apostle\r\nspeaks of time as eternal, and this with reference, not to the\r\nfuture, but, which is more surprising, to the past. For he\r\nsays, \"In hope of eternal life, which God that cannot lie promised\r\nbefore the eternal times, but hath in due times manifested\r\nHis word.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_548_548\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_548_548\">[548]</a> You see he says that in the past there\r\nhave been eternal times, which, however, were not co-eternal\r\nwith God. And since God before these eternal times not\r\nonly existed, but also \"promised\" life eternal, which He\r\nmanifested in its own times (that is to say, in due times),\r\nwhat else is this than His word? For this is life eternal.\r\nBut then, how did He promise; for the promise was made to\r\nmen, and yet they had no existence before eternal times?<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_505\">[Pg 505]</a></span>\r\nDoes this not mean that, in His own eternity, and in His\r\nco-eternal word, that which was to be in its own time was\r\nalready predestined and fixed?</p>","headings":["THE WORKS OF AURELIUS AUGUSTINE,","BOOK TWELFTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45304-paragraph-866"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"de57713a4966bc4ab8553c8895c2ca91a41537716e24580a57eb4b9a1bb0063b","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":"TIT","chapter":1,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Titus i. 2","verse":2,"verse_end":2}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45304-Footnote_548_548","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_548_548","source_ebook":45304,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_548_548\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_548_548\"><span class=\"label\">[548]</span></a> Titus i. 2, 3. Augustine here follows the version of Jerome, and not the\r\nVulgate. Comp. <i>Contra Priscill.</i> 6, and <i>de Gen. c. Man.</i> iv. 4.</p></div>","source_sha256":"d89e9a2b80bb59f394f0fb1bf313b39fab162f06af6642166d62c5912c1195f1","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45304/pg45304-images.html#Footnote_548_548","text_sha256":"2e2b47a7c4492829f9a088d0296f32b95587ab79b6139b52e4bce1f76bb3479b","verified":false,"work_id":null}