{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>And thus we may say of peace, as we have said of eternal\r\nlife, that it is the end of our good; and the rather because\r\nthe Psalmist says of the city of God, the subject of this laborious\r\nwork, \"Praise the Lord, O Jerusalem; praise thy God,\r\nO Zion: for He hath strengthened the bars of thy gates; He\r\nhath blessed thy children within thee; who hath made thy\r\nborders peace.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_638_638\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_638_638\">[638]</a> For when the bars of her gates shall be\r\nstrengthened, none shall go in or come out from her; consequently\r\nwe ought to understand the peace of her borders as<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_315\">[Pg 315]</a></span>\r\nthat final peace we are wishing to declare. For even the\r\nmystical name of the city itself, that is, <i>Jerusalem</i>, means, as I\r\nhave already said, \"Vision of Peace.\" But as the word peace is\r\nemployed in connection with things in this world in which\r\ncertainly life eternal has no place, we have preferred to call\r\nthe end or supreme good of this city life eternal rather than\r\npeace. Of this end the apostle says, \"But now, being freed\r\nfrom sin, and become servants to God, ye have your fruit unto\r\nholiness, and the end life eternal.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_639_639\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_639_639\">[639]</a> But, on the other hand,\r\nas those who are not familiar with Scripture may suppose that\r\nthe life of the wicked is eternal life, either because of the\r\nimmortality of the soul, which some of the philosophers even\r\nhave recognised, or because of the endless punishment of the\r\nwicked, which forms a part of our faith, and which seems\r\nimpossible unless the wicked live for ever, it may therefore\r\nbe advisable, in order that every one may readily understand\r\nwhat we mean, to say that the end or supreme good of this\r\ncity is either peace in eternal life, or eternal life in peace. For\r\npeace is a good so great, that even in this earthly and mortal\r\nlife there is no word we hear with such pleasure, nothing we\r\ndesire with such zest, or find to be more thoroughly gratifying.\r\nSo that if we dwell for a little longer on this subject,\r\nwe shall not, in my opinion, be wearisome to our readers, who\r\nwill attend both for the sake of understanding what is the\r\nend of this city of which we speak, and for the sake of the\r\nsweetness of peace which is dear to all.</p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK NINETEENTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-514"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"aebdb8794b21a42a6d6e711a7e9a42fbc2af8c2a7c92825d2ee4f3b79f6bd865","edition_title":"The City of God, Volume II","edition_translators":["Marcus Dods","George Wilson (Books XVII-XVIII)"],"edition_year":1871,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"ROM","chapter":6,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Rom. vi. 22","verse":22,"verse_end":22}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45305-Footnote_639_639","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_639_639","source_ebook":45305,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_639_639\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_639_639\"><span class=\"label\">[639]</span></a> Rom. vi. 22.</p></div>","source_sha256":"7e0ced9e70512f3cf050b53c9d548e36b70d468d875153869f95d8aff5bbb530","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45305/pg45305-images.html#Footnote_639_639","text_sha256":"5ea7c6bb444091d6ab3baed6e9694bf933b91b1ccbed7337d3dd61f60f2ed09f","verified":false,"work_id":null}