{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Then let him look upon His Church, joined to her so great\r\nHusband in spiritual marriage and divine love, of which it is\r\nsaid in these words which follow, \"The queen stood upon\r\nThy right hand in gold-embroidered vestments, girded about\r\nwith variety. Hearken, O daughter, and look, and incline\r\nthine ear; forget also thy people, and thy father's house.\r\nBecause the King hath greatly desired thy beauty; for He is\r\nthe Lord thy God. And the daughters of Tyre shall worship\r\nHim with gifts; the rich among the people shall entreat Thy\r\nface. The daughter of the King has all her glory within, in\r\ngolden fringes, girded about with variety. The virgins shall\r\nbe brought after her to the King: her neighbours shall be\r\nbrought to Thee. They shall be brought with gladness and\r\nexultation: they shall be led into the temple of the King.\r\nInstead of thy fathers, sons shall be born to thee: thou shalt\r\nestablish them as princes over all the earth. They shall be\r\nmindful of thy name in every generation and descent. Therefore\r\nshall the people acknowledge thee for evermore, even for<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_203\">[Pg 203]</a></span>\r\never and ever.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_447_447\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_447_447\">[447]</a> I do not think any one is so stupid as to\r\nbelieve that some poor woman is here praised and described,\r\nas the spouse, to wit, of Him to whom it is said, \"Thy throne,\r\nO God, is for ever and ever: a rod of direction is the rod of\r\nThy kingdom. Thou hast loved righteousness and hated iniquity:\r\ntherefore God, Thy God, hath anointed Thee with the\r\noil of exultation above Thy fellows;\"<a id=\"FNanchor_448_448\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_448_448\">[448]</a> that is, plainly, Christ\r\nabove Christians. For these are His fellows, out of the unity\r\nand concord of whom in all nations that queen is formed,\r\nas it is said of her in another psalm, \"The city of the great\r\nKing.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_449_449\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_449_449\">[449]</a> The same is Sion spiritually, which name in Latin\r\nis interpreted <i>speculatio</i> (discovery); for she descries the\r\ngreat good of the world to come, because her attention is\r\ndirected thither. In the same way she is also Jerusalem\r\nspiritually, of which we have already said many things. Her\r\nenemy is the city of the devil, Babylon, which is interpreted\r\n\"confusion.\" Yet out of this Babylon this queen is in all\r\nnations set free by regeneration, and passes from the worst\r\nto the best King,—that is, from the devil to Christ. Wherefore\r\nit is said to her, \"Forget thy people and thy father's\r\nhouse.\" Of this impious city those also are a portion who\r\nare Israelites only in the flesh and not by faith, enemies also\r\nof this great King Himself, and of His queen. For Christ,\r\nhaving come to them, and been slain by them, has the more\r\nbecome the King of others, whom He did not see in the flesh.\r\nWhence our King Himself says through the prophecy of a\r\ncertain psalm, \"Thou wilt deliver me from the contradictions\r\nof the people; Thou wilt make me head of the nations. A\r\npeople whom I have not known hath served me: in the hearing\r\nof the ear it hath obeyed me.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_450_450\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_450_450\">[450]</a> Therefore this people of\r\nthe nations, which Christ did not know in His bodily presence,\r\nyet has believed in that Christ as announced to it; so that it\r\nmight be said of it with good reason, \"In the hearing of the\r\near it hath obeyed me,\" for \"faith is by hearing.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_451_451\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_451_451\">[451]</a> This\r\npeople, I say, added to those who are the true Israelites both\r\nby the flesh and by faith, is the city of God, which has\r\nbrought forth Christ Himself according to the flesh, since He<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_204\">[Pg 204]</a></span>\r\nwas in these Israelites only. For thence came the Virgin\r\nMary, in whom Christ assumed flesh that He might be man.\r\nOf which city another psalm says, \"Mother Sion, shall a man\r\nsay, and the man is made in her, and the Highest Himself\r\nhath founded her.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_452_452\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_452_452\">[452]</a> Who is this Highest, save God? And\r\nthus Christ, who is God, before He became man through Mary\r\nin that city, Himself founded it by the patriarchs and prophets.\r\nAs therefore was said by prophecy so long before to this queen,\r\nthe city of God, what we already can see fulfilled, \"Instead\r\nof thy fathers, sons are born to thee; thou shalt make them\r\nprinces over all the earth;\"<a id=\"FNanchor_453_453\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_453_453\">[453]</a> so out of her sons truly are set\r\nup even her fathers [princes] through all the earth, when the\r\npeople, coming together to her, confess to her with the confession\r\nof eternal praise for ever and ever. Beyond doubt,\r\nwhatever interpretation is put on what is here expressed\r\nsomewhat darkly in figurative language, ought to be in agreement\r\nwith these most manifest things.</p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK SEVENTEENTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-332"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"2f4d503471d609ba2e1c750330e3e64d6b8512c6a558cfc3c700b168c1a34c05","edition_title":"The City of God, Volume II","edition_translators":["Marcus Dods","George Wilson (Books XVII-XVIII)"],"edition_year":1871,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"PSA","chapter":18,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Ps. xviii. 43","verse":43,"verse_end":43}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45305-Footnote_450_450","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. 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