{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>How could these, and whatever like things are found in the\r\nRoman history, have become so widely known, and have been\r\nproclaimed by so great a fame, had not the Roman empire,\r\nextending far and wide, been raised to its greatness by magnificent\r\nsuccesses? Wherefore, through that empire, so extensive\r\nand of so long continuance, so illustrious and glorious\r\nalso through the virtues of such great men, the reward which\r\nthey sought was rendered to their earnest aspirations, and also\r\nexamples are set before us, containing necessary admonition,\r\nin order that we may be stung with shame if we shall see that\r\nwe have not held fast those virtues for the sake of the most\r\nglorious city of God, which are, in whatever way, resembled\r\nby those virtues which they held fast for the sake of the glory\r\nof a terrestrial city, and that, too, if we shall feel conscious\r\nthat we have held them fast, we may not be lifted up with\r\npride, because, as the apostle says, \"The sufferings of the\r\npresent time are not worthy to be compared to the glory\r\nwhich shall be revealed in us.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_217_217\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_217_217\">[217]</a> But so far as regards human\r\nand temporal glory, the lives of these ancient Romans were\r\nreckoned sufficiently worthy. Therefore, also, we see, in the\r\nlight of that truth which, veiled in the Old Testament, is revealed\r\nin the New, namely, that it is not in view of terrestrial\r\nand temporal benefits, which divine providence grants promiscuously\r\nto good and evil, that God is to be worshipped, but in\r\nview of eternal life, everlasting gifts, and of the society of the\r\nheavenly city itself;—in the light of this truth we see that\r\nthe Jews were most righteously given as a trophy to the glory\r\nof the Romans; for we see that these Romans, who rested on\r\nearthly glory, and sought to obtain it by virtues, such as they\r\nwere, conquered those who, in their great depravity, slew and\r\nrejected the giver of true glory, and of the eternal city.</p>","headings":["THE WORKS OF AURELIUS AUGUSTINE,","BOOK FIFTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45304-paragraph-398"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"4b626fb6621dd0a7e2fc430b303eefbedfa6d6d0fd96080364094bcddab5f73a","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":"ROM","chapter":8,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Rom. viii. 18","verse":18,"verse_end":18}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45304-Footnote_217_217","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_217_217","source_ebook":45304,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_217_217\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_217_217\"><span class=\"label\">[217]</span></a> Rom. viii. 18.</p></div>","source_sha256":"d89e9a2b80bb59f394f0fb1bf313b39fab162f06af6642166d62c5912c1195f1","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45304/pg45304-images.html#Footnote_217_217","text_sha256":"f85b9804f679019a0b39fe30bdc42aa160387067bf7ea24fd100f9891a3ce35b","verified":false,"work_id":null}