Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Let me make this clearer by here inserting an example, in\r\nregard to which no one can have any doubt that what I am\r\nasserting is true. The evangelist Matthew, where he designs\r\nto commit to our memories the generation of the Lord's flesh\r\nby a series of parents, beginning from Abraham and intending\r\nto reach David, says, \"Abraham begat Isaac;\"<a id=\"FNanchor_180_180\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_180_180\">[180]</a> why did he\r\nnot say Ishmael, whom he first begat? Then \"Isaac begat\r\nJacob;\" why did he not say Esau, who was the first-born?\r\nSimply because these sons would not have helped him to\r\nreach David. Then follows, \"And Jacob begat Judah and\r\nhis brethren:\" was Judah the first begotten? \"Judah,\" he\r\nsays, \"begat Pharez and Zara;\" yet neither were these twins\r\nthe first-born of Judah, but before them he had begotten\r\nthree other sons. And so in the order of the generations he\r\nretained those by whom he might reach David, so as to proceed\r\nonwards to the end he had in view. And from this we\r\nmay understand that the antediluvians who are mentioned\r\nwere not the first-born, but those through whom the order of<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_78\">[Pg 78]</a></span>\r\nthe succeeding generations might be carried on to the patriarch\r\nNoah. We need not, therefore, weary ourselves with discussing\r\nthe needless and obscure question as to their lateness of reaching\r\npuberty.</p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK FIFTEENTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-134"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"e21246b9afcf1b7ccc026483b177e83341e10f14fe5215d9d02925b731a05074","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_180_180","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_180_180","source_ebook":45305,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_180_180\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_180_180\"><span class=\"label\">[180]</span></a> Matt. i.</p></div>","source_sha256":"7e0ced9e70512f3cf050b53c9d548e36b70d468d875153869f95d8aff5bbb530","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45305/pg45305-images.html#Footnote_180_180","text_sha256":"345526a6a312856f9aba308f53af4063beab19545669b01485ed4b062299dbb0","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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