{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>The whole use, then, of things temporal has a reference to\r\nthis result of earthly peace in the earthly community, while\r\nin the city of God it is connected with eternal peace. And\r\ntherefore, if we were irrational animals, we should desire\r\nnothing beyond the proper arrangement of the parts of the\r\nbody and the satisfaction of the appetites,—nothing, therefore,\r\nbut bodily comfort and abundance of pleasures, that the\r\npeace of the body might contribute to the peace of the soul.\r\nFor if bodily peace be awanting, a bar is put to the peace\r\neven of the irrational soul, since it cannot obtain the gratification\r\nof its appetites. And these two together help out the\r\nmutual peace of soul and body, the peace of harmonious life\r\nand health. For as animals, by shunning pain, show that they\r\nlove bodily peace, and, by pursuing pleasure to gratify their\r\nappetites, show that they love peace of soul, so their shrinking\r\nfrom death is a sufficient indication of their intense love of\r\nthat peace which binds soul and body in close alliance. But,\r\nas man has a rational soul, he subordinates all this which he\r\nhas in common with the beasts to the peace of his rational\r\nsoul, that his intellect may have free play and may regulate\r\nhis actions, and that he may thus enjoy the well-ordered harmony\r\nof knowledge and action which constitutes, as we have\r\nsaid, the peace of the rational soul. And for this purpose he\r\nmust desire to be neither molested by pain, nor disturbed by\r\ndesire, nor extinguished by death, that he may arrive at some\r\nuseful knowledge by which he may regulate his life and\r\nmanners. But, owing to the liability of the human mind to\r\nfall into mistakes, this very pursuit of knowledge may be a\r\nsnare to him unless he has a divine Master, whom he may\r\nobey without misgiving, and who may at the same time give\r\nhim such help as to preserve his own freedom. And because,\r\nso long as he is in this mortal body, he is a stranger to God,\r\nhe walks by faith, not by sight; and he therefore refers all\r\npeace, bodily or spiritual or both, to that peace which mortal\r\nman has with the immortal God, so that he exhibits the well-ordered\r\nobedience of faith to eternal law. But as this divine\r\nMaster inculcates two precepts,—the love of God and the<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_323\">[Pg 323]</a></span>\r\nlove of our neighbour,—and as in these precepts a man finds\r\nthree things he has to love,—God, himself, and his neighbour,—and\r\nthat he who loves God loves himself thereby, it follows\r\nthat he must endeavour to get his neighbour to love God,\r\nsince he is ordered to love his neighbour as himself. He\r\nought to make this endeavour in behalf of his wife, his children,\r\nhis household, all within his reach, even as he would\r\nwish his neighbour to do the same for him if he needed it;\r\nand consequently he will be at peace, or in well-ordered concord,\r\nwith all men, as far as in him lies. And this is the\r\norder of this concord, that a man, in the first place, injure no\r\none, and, in the second, do good to every one he can reach.\r\nPrimarily, therefore, his own household are his care, for the\r\nlaw of nature and of society gives him readier access to them\r\nand greater opportunity of serving them. And hence the\r\napostle says, \"Now, if any provide not for his own, and\r\nspecially for those of his own house, he hath denied the\r\nfaith, and is worse than an infidel.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_643_643\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_643_643\">[643]</a> This is the origin of\r\ndomestic peace, or the well-ordered concord of those in the\r\nfamily who rule and those who obey. For they who care\r\nfor the rest rule,—the husband the wife, the parents the\r\nchildren, the masters the servants; and they who are cared\r\nfor obey,—the women their husbands, the children their\r\nparents, the servants their masters. But in the family of\r\nthe just man who lives by faith and is as yet a pilgrim\r\njourneying on to the celestial city, even those who rule\r\nserve those whom they seem to command; for they rule\r\nnot from a love of power, but from a sense of the duty they\r\nowe to others—not because they are proud of authority, but\r\nbecause they love mercy.</p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK NINETEENTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-523"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"276488e87d65bed8b053a74109d87f81c5a481010ed6da24cfe5ed662979a5cc","edition_title":"The City of God, Volume II","edition_translators":["Marcus Dods","George Wilson (Books XVII-XVIII)"],"edition_year":1871,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"1TI","chapter":5,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"1 Tim. v. 8","verse":8,"verse_end":8}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45305-Footnote_643_643","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_643_643","source_ebook":45305,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_643_643\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_643_643\"><span class=\"label\">[643]</span></a> 1 Tim. v. 8.</p></div>","source_sha256":"7e0ced9e70512f3cf050b53c9d548e36b70d468d875153869f95d8aff5bbb530","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45305/pg45305-images.html#Footnote_643_643","text_sha256":"4a2d0ca167eb4e193e25af33af29f6fe8f23dfa0dbb9afd32c0fb86f2778fa70","verified":false,"work_id":null}