{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>In order that we may be able to consider these times, let us\r\ngo back a little to earlier times. At the beginning of the book\r\nof the prophet Hosea, who is placed first of twelve, it is written,\r\n\"The word of the Lord which came to Hosea in the days of\r\nUzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_509_509\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_509_509\">[509]</a> Amos\r\nalso writes that he prophesied in the days of Uzziah, and adds\r\nthe name of Jeroboam king of Israel, who lived at the same<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_247\">[Pg 247]</a></span>\r\ntime.<a id=\"FNanchor_510_510\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_510_510\">[510]</a> Isaiah the son of Amos—either the above-named prophet,\r\nor, as is rather affirmed, another who was not a prophet, but\r\nwas called by the same name—also puts at the head of his book\r\nthese four kings named by Hosea, saying by way of preface\r\nthat he prophesied in their days.<a id=\"FNanchor_511_511\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_511_511\">[511]</a> Micah also names the same\r\ntimes as those of his prophecy, after the days of Uzziah;<a id=\"FNanchor_512_512\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_512_512\">[512]</a> for\r\nhe names the same three kings as Hosea named,—Jotham,\r\nAhaz, and Hezekiah. We find from their own writings that\r\nthese men prophesied contemporaneously. To these are added\r\nJonah in the reign of Uzziah, and Joel in that of Jotham, who\r\nsucceeded Uzziah. But we can find the date of these two\r\nprophets in the chronicles,<a id=\"FNanchor_513_513\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_513_513\">[513]</a> not in their own writings, for they\r\nsay nothing about it themselves. Now these days extend from\r\nProcas king of the Latins, or his predecessor Aventinus, down\r\nto Romulus king of the Romans, or even to the beginning of\r\nthe reign of his successor, Numa Pompilius. Hezekiah king\r\nof Judah certainly reigned till then. So that thus these fountains\r\nof prophecy, as I may call them, burst forth at once during\r\nthose times when the Assyrian kingdom failed and the Roman\r\nbegan; so that, just as in the first period of the Assyrian kingdom\r\nAbraham arose, to whom the most distinct promises were\r\nmade that all nations should be blessed in his seed, so at the\r\nbeginning of the western Babylon, in the time of whose government\r\nChrist was to come in whom these promises were to be\r\nfulfilled, the oracles of the prophets were given not only in\r\nspoken but in written words, for a testimony that so great a\r\nthing should come to pass. For although the people of Israel\r\nhardly ever lacked prophets from the time when they began to\r\nhave kings, these were only for their own use, not for that of\r\nthe nations. But when the more manifestly prophetic Scripture\r\nbegan to be formed, which was to benefit the nations\r\ntoo, it was fitting that it should begin when this city was\r\nfounded which was to rule the nations.</p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK EIGHTEENTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-413"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"ec63f513a44dbaa8049184b57d31605a954a4713c67757f5bbda76a444c486fa","edition_title":"The City of God, Volume II","edition_translators":["Marcus Dods","George Wilson (Books XVII-XVIII)"],"edition_year":1871,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg45305-Footnote_513_513","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_513_513","source_ebook":45305,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_513_513\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_513_513\"><span class=\"label\">[513]</span></a> The chronicles of Eusebius and Jerome.</p></div>","source_sha256":"7e0ced9e70512f3cf050b53c9d548e36b70d468d875153869f95d8aff5bbb530","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45305/pg45305-images.html#Footnote_513_513","text_sha256":"6bc5f4065c9b5f88f53842cd144a63a5489f3a5e5bba3eb055cbc7d1865d2b43","verified":false,"work_id":null}