{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>This may be enough to prevent any one from supposing,\r\nwhen we speak of the apostate angels, that they could have\r\nanother nature, derived, as it were, from some different origin,\r\nand not from God. From the great impiety of this error we\r\nshall disentangle ourselves the more readily and easily, the\r\nmore distinctly we understand that which God spoke by the\r\nangel when He sent Moses to the children of Israel: \"I am\r\nthat I am.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_522_522\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_522_522\">[522]</a> For since God is the supreme existence, that is\r\nto say, supremely is, and is therefore unchangeable, the things\r\nthat He made He empowered to be, but not to be supremely\r\nlike Himself. To some He communicated a more ample, to\r\nothers a more limited existence, and thus arranged the natures\r\nof beings in ranks. For as from <i>sapere</i> comes <i>sapientia</i>, so\r\nfrom <i>esse</i> comes <i>essentia</i>,—a new word indeed, which the old\r\nLatin writers did not use, but which is naturalized in our\r\nday,<a id=\"FNanchor_523_523\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_523_523\">[523]</a> that our language may not want an equivalent for the\r\nGreek οὐσία. For this is expressed word for word by <i>essentia</i>.<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_484\">[Pg 484]</a></span>\r\nConsequently, to that nature which supremely is, and which\r\ncreated all else that exists, no nature is contrary save that\r\nwhich does not exist. For nonentity is the contrary of that\r\nwhich is. And thus there is no being contrary to God, the\r\nSupreme Being, and Author of all beings whatsoever.</p>","headings":["THE WORKS OF AURELIUS AUGUSTINE,","BOOK TWELFTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45304-paragraph-833"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"1e49a3a50760ba34a38b23b4bf137834cae9dd84cc27d70ed04b8b5b6a013ad4","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":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg45304-Footnote_523_523","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_523_523","source_ebook":45304,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_523_523\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_523_523\"><span class=\"label\">[523]</span></a> Quintilian calls it <i>dura</i>.</p></div>","source_sha256":"d89e9a2b80bb59f394f0fb1bf313b39fab162f06af6642166d62c5912c1195f1","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45304/pg45304-images.html#Footnote_523_523","text_sha256":"a5045826db4f9c7f2a5191c8fbc312408538cff886eaa1b3b3abb6232b279040","verified":false,"work_id":null}