{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>When, therefore, we read in the prophetical books that God\r\nis to come to do judgment at the last, from the mere mention<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_410\">[Pg 410]</a></span>\r\nof the judgment, and although there is nothing else to determine\r\nthe meaning, we must gather that Christ is meant; for\r\nthough the Father will judge, He will judge by the coming\r\nof the Son. For He Himself, by His own manifested presence,\r\n\"judges no man, but has committed all judgment to\r\nthe Son;\"<a id=\"FNanchor_847_847\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_847_847\">[847]</a> for as the Son was judged as a man, He shall\r\nalso judge in human form. For it is none but He of whom\r\nGod speaks by Isaiah under the name of Jacob and Israel, of\r\nwhose seed Christ took a body, as it is written, \"Jacob is my\r\nservant, I will uphold Him; Israel is mine elect, my Spirit\r\nhas assumed Him: I have put my Spirit upon Him; He\r\nshall bring forth judgment to the Gentiles. He shall not cry,\r\nnor cease, neither shall His voice be heard without. A\r\nbruised reed shall He not break, and the smoking flax shall\r\nHe not quench: but in truth shall He bring forth judgment.\r\nHe shall shine and shall not be broken, until He sets judgment\r\nin the earth: and the nations shall hope in His name.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_848_848\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_848_848\">[848]</a>\r\nThe Hebrew has not \"Jacob\" and \"Israel;\" but the Septuagint\r\ntranslators, wishing to show the significance of the\r\nexpression \"my servant,\" and that it refers to the form of a\r\nservant in which the Most High humbled Himself, inserted\r\nthe name of that man from whose stock He took the form\r\nof a servant. The Holy Spirit was given to Him, and was\r\nmanifested, as the evangelist testifies, in the form of a dove.<a id=\"FNanchor_849_849\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_849_849\">[849]</a>\r\nHe brought forth judgment to the Gentiles, because He predicted\r\nwhat was hidden from them. In His meekness He\r\ndid not cry, nor did He cease to proclaim the truth. But\r\nHis voice was not heard, nor is it heard, without, because He\r\nis not obeyed by those who are outside of His body. And the\r\nJews themselves, who persecuted Him, He did not break,\r\nthough as a bruised reed they had lost their integrity, and as\r\nsmoking flax their light was quenched; for He spared them,\r\nhaving come to be judged and not yet to judge. He brought\r\nforth judgment in truth, declaring that they should be\r\npunished did they persist in their wickedness. His face\r\nshone on the Mount,<a id=\"FNanchor_850_850\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_850_850\">[850]</a> His fame in the world. He is not\r\nbroken nor overcome, because neither in Himself nor in His<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_411\">[Pg 411]</a></span>\r\nChurch has persecution prevailed to annihilate Him. And\r\ntherefore that has not, and shall not, be brought about which\r\nHis enemies said or say, \"When shall He die, and His name\r\nperish?\"<a id=\"FNanchor_851_851\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_851_851\">[851]</a> \"until He set judgment in the earth.\" Behold,\r\nthe hidden thing which we were seeking is discovered. For\r\nthis is the last judgment, which He will set in the earth\r\nwhen He comes from heaven. And it is in Him, too, we\r\nalready see the concluding expression of the prophecy fulfilled:\r\n\"In His name shall the nations hope.\" And by this fulfilment,\r\nwhich no one can deny, men are encouraged to believe\r\nin that which is most impudently denied. For who could\r\nhave hoped for that which even those who do not yet believe\r\nin Christ now see fulfilled among us, and which is so undeniable\r\nthat they can but gnash their teeth and pine away?\r\nWho, I say, could have hoped that the nations would hope in\r\nthe name of Christ, when He was arrested, bound, scourged,\r\nmocked, crucified, when even the disciples themselves had\r\nlost the hope which they had begun to have in Him? The\r\nhope which was then entertained scarcely by the one thief on\r\nthe cross, is now cherished by nations everywhere on the\r\nearth, who are marked with the sign of the cross on which\r\nHe died that they may not die eternally.</p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK TWENTIETH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-646"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"bffc1ef33de156fc6401babc65bec2cceb06dee7378520c4db62697032f03e8d","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":41,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Ps. xli. 5","verse":5,"verse_end":5}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45305-Footnote_851_851","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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