{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>But the wicked brother is, in the person of his son (<i>i.e.</i>\r\nhis work), the boy, or slave, of his good brothers, when good\r\nmen make a skilful use of bad men, either for the exercise of\r\ntheir patience or for their advancement in wisdom. For the\r\napostle testifies that there are some who preach Christ from\r\nno pure motives; \"but,\" says he, \"whether in pretence or in\r\ntruth, Christ is preached; and I therein do rejoice, yea, and\r\nwill rejoice.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_228_228\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_228_228\">[228]</a> For it is Christ Himself who planted the\r\nvine of which the prophet says, \"The vine of the Lord of\r\nhosts is the house of Israel;\"<a id=\"FNanchor_229_229\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_229_229\">[229]</a> and He drinks of its wine,\r\nwhether we thus understand that cup of which He says, \"Can\r\nye drink of the cup that I shall drink of?\"<a id=\"FNanchor_230_230\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_230_230\">[230]</a> and, \"Father,\r\nif it be possible, let this cup pass from me,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_231_231\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_231_231\">[231]</a> by which He\r\nobviously means His passion. Or, as wine is the fruit of<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_107\">[Pg 107]</a></span>\r\nthe vine, we may prefer to understand that from this vine,\r\nthat is to say, from the race of Israel, He has assumed flesh\r\nand blood that He might suffer; \"and he was drunken,\" that\r\nis, He suffered; \"and was naked,\" that is, His weakness\r\nappeared in His suffering, as the apostle says, \"though He\r\nwas crucified through weakness.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_232_232\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_232_232\">[232]</a> Wherefore the same\r\napostle says, \"The weakness of God is stronger than men;\r\nand the foolishness of God is wiser than men.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_233_233\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_233_233\">[233]</a> And when\r\nto the expression \"he was naked\" Scripture adds \"in his\r\nhouse,\" it elegantly intimates that Jesus was to suffer the\r\ncross and death at the hands of His own household, His own\r\nkith and kin, the Jews. This passion of Christ is only\r\nexternally and verbally professed by the reprobate, for what\r\nthey profess they do not understand. But the elect hold in\r\nthe inner man this so great mystery, and honour inwardly in\r\nthe heart this weakness and foolishness of God. And of this\r\nthere is a figure in Ham going out to proclaim his father's\r\nnakedness; while Shem and Japheth, to cover or honour it,\r\nwent in, that is to say, did it inwardly.</p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK SIXTEENTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-178"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"4d67288ff50239307492f8602de9535ed8fb94decd12af6385eeda52e3ea513d","edition_title":"The City of God, Volume II","edition_translators":["Marcus Dods","George Wilson (Books XVII-XVIII)"],"edition_year":1871,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"ISA","chapter":5,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Isa. v. 7","verse":7,"verse_end":7}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45305-Footnote_229_229","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_229_229","source_ebook":45305,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_229_229\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_229_229\"><span class=\"label\">[229]</span></a> Isa. v. 7.</p></div>","source_sha256":"7e0ced9e70512f3cf050b53c9d548e36b70d468d875153869f95d8aff5bbb530","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45305/pg45305-images.html#Footnote_229_229","text_sha256":"f1ba8075081115bb2b5e6e9a9df0f52549e2f947819b921a982fec0d763cc8cf","verified":false,"work_id":null}