Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>God's promises made to Abraham are now to be considered;\r\nfor in these the oracles of our God,<a id=\"FNanchor_264_264\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_264_264\">[264]</a> that is, of the true God,<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_130\">[Pg 130]</a></span>\r\nbegan to appear more openly concerning the godly people,\r\nwhom prophetic authority foretold. The first of these reads\r\nthus: \"And the Lord said unto Abram, Get thee out of thy\r\ncountry, and from thy kindred, and from thy father's house,\r\nand go into a land that I will show thee: and I will make of\r\nthee a great nation, and I will bless thee, and magnify thy\r\nname; and thou shalt be blessed: and I will bless them that\r\nbless thee, and curse them that curse thee: and in thee shall\r\nall tribes of the earth be blessed.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_265_265\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_265_265\">[265]</a> Now it is to be observed\r\nthat two things are promised to Abraham, the one, that his\r\nseed should possess the land of Canaan, which is intimated\r\nwhen it is said, \"Go into a land that I will show thee, and I\r\nwill make of thee a great nation;\" but the other far more\r\nexcellent, not about the carnal but the spiritual seed, through\r\nwhich he is the father, not of the one Israelite nation, but of\r\nall nations who follow the footprints of his faith, which was\r\nfirst promised in these words, \"And in thee shall all tribes of\r\nthe earth be blessed.\" Eusebius thought this promise was\r\nmade in Abraham's seventy-fifth year, as if soon after it was\r\nmade Abraham had departed out of Haran; because the Scripture\r\ncannot be contradicted, in which we read, \"Abram was\r\nseventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran.\"\r\nBut if this promise was made in that year, then of course\r\nAbraham was staying in Haran with his father; for he could\r\nnot depart thence unless he had first dwelt there. Does this,\r\nthen, contradict what Stephen says, \"The God of glory appeared\r\nto our father Abraham, when he was in Mesopotamia,\r\nbefore he dwelt in Charran?\"<a id=\"FNanchor_266_266\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_266_266\">[266]</a> But it is to be understood that\r\nthe whole took place in the same year,—both the promise of\r\nGod before Abraham dwelt in Haran, and his dwelling in\r\nHaran, and his departure thence,—not only because Eusebius\r\nin the Chronicles reckons from the year of this promise, and\r\nshows that after 430 years the exodus from Egypt took place,\r\nwhen the law was given, but because the Apostle Paul also\r\nmentions it.</p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK SIXTEENTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-216"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"cc129f18d2a874f482905ab1c9c5ed294249f06572d60bf325b95c8ee3aa947b","edition_title":"The City of God, Volume II","edition_translators":["Marcus Dods","George Wilson (Books XVII-XVIII)"],"edition_year":1871,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg45305-Footnote_264_264","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_264_264","source_ebook":45305,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_264_264\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_264_264\"><span class=\"label\">[264]</span></a> Various reading, \"of our Lord Jesus Christ.\"</p></div>","source_sha256":"7e0ced9e70512f3cf050b53c9d548e36b70d468d875153869f95d8aff5bbb530","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45305/pg45305-images.html#Footnote_264_264","text_sha256":"041db2859ac7d617e90eae2b454827c2166beed4db6160da2c9516ea06c2adad","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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