{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>These things can also and more profitably be understood of\r\nthe Church, so that they become prophetic foreshadowings of\r\nthings to come. Thus Paradise is the Church, as it is called in\r\nthe Canticles;<a id=\"FNanchor_603_603\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_603_603\">[603]</a> the four rivers of Paradise are the four gospels;\r\nthe fruit-trees the saints, and the fruit their works; the tree\r\nof life is the holy of holies, Christ; the tree of the knowledge\r\nof good and evil, the will's free choice. For if man despise\r\nthe will of God, he can only destroy himself; and so he learns\r\nthe difference between consecrating himself to the common\r\ngood and revelling in his own. For he who loves himself is\r\nabandoned to himself, in order that, being overwhelmed with\r\nfears and sorrows, he may cry, if there be yet soul in him to\r\nfeel his ills, in the words of the psalm, \"My soul is cast down\r\nwithin me,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_604_604\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_604_604\">[604]</a> and when chastened, may say, \"Because of his\r\nstrength I will wait upon Thee.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_605_605\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_605_605\">[605]</a> These and similar allegorical\r\ninterpretations may be suitably put upon Paradise without\r\ngiving offence to any one, while yet we believe the strict\r\ntruth of the history, confirmed by its circumstantial narrative\r\nof facts.<a id=\"FNanchor_606_606\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_606_606\">[606]</a></p>","headings":["THE WORKS OF AURELIUS AUGUSTINE,","BOOK THIRTEENTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45304-paragraph-939"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"416cc70d87900851e02135af1ee6a1d0d716fd538e248b623440a3cf07200ace","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_606_606","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_606_606","source_ebook":45304,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_606_606\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_606_606\"><span class=\"label\">[606]</span></a> Those who wish to pursue this subject will find a pretty full collection of\r\nopinions in the learned commentary on Genesis by the Jesuit Pererius. Philo\r\nwas, of course, the leading culprit, but Ambrose and other Church fathers went\r\nnearly as far. Augustine condemns the Seleucians for this among other heresies,\r\nthat they denied a visible Paradise.—<i>De Hæres.</i> 59.</p></div>","source_sha256":"d89e9a2b80bb59f394f0fb1bf313b39fab162f06af6642166d62c5912c1195f1","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45304/pg45304-images.html#Footnote_606_606","text_sha256":"f223b7b747bdfc28772c8ecac0cdb5fedd7ad3f87c55d6ee9124e3029c9f18e8","verified":false,"work_id":null}