{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>But the question arises, whether, when their eyes are open,\r\nthey shall see Him with the bodily eye? If the eyes of the\r\nspiritual body have no more power than the eyes which we\r\nnow possess, manifestly God cannot be seen with them. They\r\nmust be of a very different power if they can look upon that\r\nincorporeal nature which is not contained in any place, but is\r\nall in every place. For though we say that God is in heaven\r\nand on earth, as He Himself says by the prophet, \"I fill\r\nheaven and earth,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_1035_1035\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1035_1035\">[1035]</a> we do not mean that there is one part of\r\nGod in heaven and another part on earth; but He is all in\r\nheaven and all on earth, not at alternate intervals of time,\r\nbut both at once, as no bodily nature can be. The eye, then,\r\nshall have a vastly superior power,—the power not of keen\r\nsight, such as is ascribed to serpents or eagles, for however\r\nkeenly these animals see, they can discern nothing but bodily\r\nsubstances,—but the power of seeing things incorporeal. Possibly\r\nit was this great power of vision which was temporarily\r\ncommunicated to the eyes of the holy Job while yet in this\r\nmortal body, when he says to God, \"I have heard of Thee by\r\nthe hearing of the ear; but now mine eye seeth Thee: wherefore\r\nI abhor myself, and melt away, and count myself dust\r\nand ashes;\"<a id=\"FNanchor_1036_1036\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1036_1036\">[1036]</a> although there is no reason why we should not\r\nunderstand this of the eye of the heart, of which the apostle\r\nsays, \"Having the eyes of your heart illuminated.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_1037_1037\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1037_1037\">[1037]</a> But that\r\nGod shall be seen with these eyes no Christian doubts who\r\nbelievingly accepts what our God and Master says, \"Blessed<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_538\">[Pg 538]</a></span>\r\nare the pure in heart: for they shall see God.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_1038_1038\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1038_1038\">[1038]</a> But whether\r\nin the future life God shall also be seen with the bodily eye,\r\nthis is now our question.</p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK TWENTY-SECOND.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-843"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"f3ccc29e52a8fee93ef1fa0228292b0b0cd09b88233e1f176665443dbcafe20b","edition_title":"The City of God, Volume II","edition_translators":["Marcus Dods","George Wilson (Books XVII-XVIII)"],"edition_year":1871,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"JER","chapter":23,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Jer. xxiii. 24","verse":24,"verse_end":24}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45305-Footnote_1035_1035","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_1035_1035","source_ebook":45305,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_1035_1035\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_1035_1035\"><span class=\"label\">[1035]</span></a> Jer. xxiii. 24.</p></div>","source_sha256":"7e0ced9e70512f3cf050b53c9d548e36b70d468d875153869f95d8aff5bbb530","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45305/pg45305-images.html#Footnote_1035_1035","text_sha256":"d76eeff1203241e0dadb4d60e36f8fa2568190f9c4ded47738104c5ecab2ae39","verified":false,"work_id":null}