Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>After these three prophets, Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi,\r\nduring the same period of the liberation of the people from\r\nthe Babylonian servitude Esdras also wrote, who is historical\r\nrather than prophetical, as is also the book called Esther, which\r\nis found to relate, for the praise of God, events not far from\r\nthose times; unless, perhaps, Esdras is to be understood as\r\nprophesying of Christ in that passage where, on a question\r\nhaving arisen among certain young men as to what is the\r\nstrongest thing, when one had said kings, another wine, the\r\nthird women, who for the most part rule kings, yet that<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_263\">[Pg 263]</a></span>\r\nsame third youth demonstrated that the truth is victorious\r\nover all.<a id=\"FNanchor_572_572\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_572_572\">[572]</a> For by consulting the Gospel we learn that Christ\r\nis the Truth. From this time, when the temple was rebuilt,\r\ndown to the time of Aristobulus, the Jews had not kings but\r\nprinces; and the reckoning of their dates is found, not in the\r\nHoly Scriptures which are called canonical, but in others,\r\namong which are also the books of the Maccabees. These\r\nare held as canonical, not by the Jews, but by the Church, on\r\naccount of the extreme and wonderful sufferings of certain\r\nmartyrs, who, before Christ had come in the flesh, contended\r\nfor the law of God even unto death, and endured most grievous\r\nand horrible evils.</p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK EIGHTEENTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-441"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"7e5086b8d7bd740b321f1fc98b178570f0686d5c39e1fc4ea16b7a805f2bcf20","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_572_572","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_572_572","source_ebook":45305,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_572_572\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_572_572\"><span class=\"label\">[572]</span></a> Esdras iii. and iv.</p></div>","source_sha256":"7e0ced9e70512f3cf050b53c9d548e36b70d468d875153869f95d8aff5bbb530","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45305/pg45305-images.html#Footnote_572_572","text_sha256":"18590d2326167f9ff5d608008b749e330aa375cd4a39af63a79d6b8b86b46736","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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