{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>After this promise Lot was delivered out of Sodom, and a\r\nfiery rain from heaven turned into ashes that whole region of\r\nthe impious city, where custom had made sodomy as prevalent\r\nas laws have elsewhere made other kinds of wickedness. But\r\nthis punishment of theirs was a specimen of the divine judgment\r\nto come. For what is meant by the angels forbidding\r\nthose who were delivered to look back, but that we are not\r\nto look back in heart to the old life which, being regenerated\r\nthrough grace, we have put off, if we think to escape the last\r\njudgment? Lot's wife, indeed, when she looked back, remained,\r\nand, being turned into salt, furnished to believing\r\nmen a condiment by which to savour somewhat the warning\r\nto be drawn from that example. Then Abraham did again\r\nat Gerar, with Abimelech the king of that city, what he had\r\ndone in Egypt about his wife, and received her back untouched\r\nin the same way. On this occasion, when the king\r\nrebuked Abraham for not saying she was his wife, and calling\r\nher his sister, he explained what he had been afraid of, and\r\nadded this further, \"And yet indeed she is my sister by the\r\nfather's side, but not by the mother's;\"<a id=\"FNanchor_300_300\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_300_300\">[300]</a> for she was Abraham's\r\nsister by his own father, and so near of kin. But her beauty\r\nwas so great, that even at that advanced age she could be\r\nfallen in love with.</p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK SIXTEENTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-248"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"f84a901dea2c406c321baee9f1e6937c1486c060bac175083d8d54e4be6340d2","edition_title":"The City of God, Volume II","edition_translators":["Marcus Dods","George Wilson (Books XVII-XVIII)"],"edition_year":1871,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"GEN","chapter":20,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Gen. xx. 12","verse":12,"verse_end":12}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45305-Footnote_300_300","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_300_300","source_ebook":45305,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_300_300\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_300_300\"><span class=\"label\">[300]</span></a> Gen. xx. 12.</p></div>","source_sha256":"7e0ced9e70512f3cf050b53c9d548e36b70d468d875153869f95d8aff5bbb530","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45305/pg45305-images.html#Footnote_300_300","text_sha256":"8e6b7f0b8e2c9bbfff097409bfb1c15862f550cf81688a45e185fe7001640473","verified":false,"work_id":null}