{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>The words, \"that he should not seduce the nations till the\r\nthousand years should be fulfilled,\" are not to be understood\r\nas indicating that afterwards he is to seduce only those nations\r\nfrom which the predestined Church is composed, and from\r\nseducing whom he is restrained by that chain and imprisonment;\r\nbut they are used in conformity with that usage frequently\r\nemployed in Scripture and exemplified in the psalm,\r\n\"So our eyes wait upon the Lord our God, until He have\r\nmercy upon us,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_709_709\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_709_709\">[709]</a>—not as if the eyes of His servants would no\r\nlonger wait upon the Lord their God when He had mercy upon\r\nthem. Or the order of the words is unquestionably this, \"And\r\nhe shut him up and set a seal upon him, till the thousand\r\nyears should be fulfilled;\" and the interposed clause, \"that he\r\nshould seduce the nations no more,\" is not to be understood\r\nin the connection in which it stands, but separately, and as if\r\nadded afterwards, so that the whole sentence might be read,\r\n\"And He shut him up and set a seal upon him till the\r\nthousand years should be fulfilled, that he should seduce the\r\nnations no more,\"—<i>i.e.</i> he is shut up till the thousand years<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_360\">[Pg 360]</a></span>\r\nbe fulfilled, on this account, that he may no more deceive the\r\nnations.</p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK TWENTIETH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-579"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"941b7bdb275761dd09b4b2630ad4c556189e4dfc736d34800fc951d46683816d","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":123,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Ps. cxxiii. 2","verse":2,"verse_end":2}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45305-Footnote_709_709","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_709_709","source_ebook":45305,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_709_709\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_709_709\"><span class=\"label\">[709]</span></a> Ps. cxxiii. 2.</p></div>","source_sha256":"7e0ced9e70512f3cf050b53c9d548e36b70d468d875153869f95d8aff5bbb530","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45305/pg45305-images.html#Footnote_709_709","text_sha256":"49846e08846c5097bdac1d1898c261b98c97fb8bb9dc304ab3ab9376090aedf5","verified":false,"work_id":null}