{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>With good cause, therefore, does the true religion recognise\r\nand proclaim that the same God who created the universal\r\ncosmos, created also all the animals, souls as well as bodies.\r\nAmong the terrestrial animals man was made by Him in His<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_520\">[Pg 520]</a></span>\r\nown image, and, for the reason I have given, was made one\r\nindividual, though he was not left solitary. For there is\r\nnothing so social by nature, so unsocial by its corruption, as\r\nthis race. And human nature has nothing more appropriate,\r\neither for the prevention of discord, or for the healing of it,\r\nwhere it exists, than the remembrance of that first parent of\r\nus all, whom God was pleased to create alone, that all men\r\nmight be derived from one, and that they might thus be\r\nadmonished to preserve unity among their whole multitude.\r\nBut from the fact that the woman was made for him from\r\nhis side, it was plainly meant that we should learn how dear\r\nthe bond between man and wife should be. These works of\r\nGod do certainly seem extraordinary, because they are the first\r\nworks. They who do not believe them, ought not to believe\r\nany prodigies; for these would not be called prodigies did they\r\nnot happen out of the ordinary course of nature. But, is it\r\npossible that anything should happen in vain, however hidden\r\nbe its cause, in so grand a government of divine providence?\r\nOne of the sacred Psalmists says, \"Come, behold the works\r\nof the Lord, what prodigies He hath wrought in the earth.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_571_571\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_571_571\">[571]</a>\r\nWhy God made woman out of man's side, and what this first\r\nprodigy prefigured, I shall, with God's help, tell in another\r\nplace. But at present, since this book must be concluded, let\r\nus merely say that in this first man, who was created in the\r\nbeginning, there was laid the foundation, not indeed evidently,\r\nbut in God's foreknowledge, of these two cities or societies, so\r\nfar as regards the human race. For from that man all men\r\nwere to be derived—some of them to be associated with the\r\ngood angels in their reward, others with the wicked in punishment;\r\nall being ordered by the secret yet just judgment of\r\nGod. For since it is written, \"All the paths of the Lord are\r\nmercy and truth,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_572_572\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_572_572\">[572]</a> neither can His grace be unjust, nor His\r\njustice cruel.</p>","headings":["THE WORKS OF AURELIUS AUGUSTINE,","BOOK TWELFTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45304-paragraph-891"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"456015168334558640502d70eaf192eb270fa9dfcbd9c8db9b1e77adaf76b342","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":"PSA","chapter":46,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Ps. xlvi. 8","verse":8,"verse_end":8}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45304-Footnote_571_571","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_571_571","source_ebook":45304,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_571_571\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_571_571\"><span class=\"label\">[571]</span></a> Ps. xlvi. 8.</p></div>","source_sha256":"d89e9a2b80bb59f394f0fb1bf313b39fab162f06af6642166d62c5912c1195f1","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45304/pg45304-images.html#Footnote_571_571","text_sha256":"304245dc46bb0e0172c2f744bb1ff7e85c730fa9043306e8ad9be5f555728141","verified":false,"work_id":null}