{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>\"They that were full of bread,\" she says, \"are diminished,\r\nand the hungry have gone beyond the earth.\" Who are to\r\nbe understood as full of bread except those same who were\r\nas if mighty, that is, the Israelites, to whom were committed\r\nthe oracles of God?<a id=\"FNanchor_357_357\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_357_357\">[357]</a> But among that people the children\r\nof the bond maid were diminished,—by which word minus,\r\nalthough it is Latin, the idea is well expressed that from\r\nbeing greater they were made less,—because, even in the\r\nvery bread, that is, the divine oracles, which the Israelites\r\nalone of all nations have received, they savour earthly things.\r\nBut the nations to whom that law was not given, after they\r\nhave come through the New Testament to these oracles, by\r\nthirsting much have gone beyond the earth, because in them\r\nthey have savoured not earthly, but heavenly things. And\r\nthe reason why this is done is as it were sought; \"for the\r\nbarren,\" she says, \"hath born seven, and she that hath many\r\nchildren is waxed feeble.\" Here all that had been prophesied\r\nhath shone forth to those who understood the number seven,\r\nwhich signifies the perfection of the universal Church. For\r\nwhich reason also the Apostle John writes to the seven\r\nchurches,<a id=\"FNanchor_358_358\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_358_358\">[358]</a> showing in that way that he writes to the totality\r\nof the one Church; and in the Proverbs of Solomon it is said<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_174\">[Pg 174]</a></span>\r\naforetime, prefiguring this, \"Wisdom hath builded her house,\r\nshe hath strengthened her seven pillars.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_359_359\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_359_359\">[359]</a> For the city of\r\nGod was barren in all nations before that child arose whom\r\nwe see.<a id=\"FNanchor_360_360\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_360_360\">[360]</a> We also see that the temporal Jerusalem, who had\r\nmany children, is now waxed feeble. Because, whoever in\r\nher were sons of the free woman were her strength; but\r\nnow, forasmuch as the letter is there, and not the spirit,\r\nhaving lost her strength, she is waxed feeble.</p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK SEVENTEENTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-293"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"5cc7322a251fa4acc1743afcc524091d1a86aa9714faf2c75f1ff8e13ef4dae7","edition_title":"The City of God, Volume II","edition_translators":["Marcus Dods","George Wilson (Books XVII-XVIII)"],"edition_year":1871,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"ROM","chapter":3,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Rom. iii. 2","verse":2,"verse_end":2}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45305-Footnote_357_357","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_357_357","source_ebook":45305,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_357_357\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_357_357\"><span class=\"label\">[357]</span></a> Rom. iii. 2.</p></div>","source_sha256":"7e0ced9e70512f3cf050b53c9d548e36b70d468d875153869f95d8aff5bbb530","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45305/pg45305-images.html#Footnote_357_357","text_sha256":"34c352667e25cad8c7d7d04646aa9a5914052d3e5113d730791b05e19fc63c5f","verified":false,"work_id":null}