{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>If, on account of the Christian people in whom the city of\r\nGod sojourns in the earth, we look for the flesh of Christ in\r\nthe seed of Abraham, setting aside the sons of the concubines,\r\nwe have Isaac; if in the seed of Isaac, setting aside Esau,\r\nwho is also Edom, we have Jacob, who also is Israel; if in\r\nthe seed of Israel himself, setting aside the rest, we have\r\nJudah, because Christ sprang of the tribe of Judah. Let us\r\nhear, then, how Israel, when dying in Egypt, in blessing his\r\nsons, prophetically blessed Judah. He says: \"Judah, thy\r\nbrethren shall praise thee: thy hands shall be on the back of<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_160\">[Pg 160]</a></span>\r\nthine enemies; thy father's children shall adore thee. Judah\r\nis a lion's whelp: from the sprouting, my son, thou art gone\r\nup: lying down, thou hast slept as a lion, and as a lion's\r\nwhelp; who shall awake him? A prince shall not be\r\nlacking out of Judah, and a leader from his thighs, until the\r\nthings come that are laid up for him; and He shall be the\r\nexpectation of the nations. Binding his foal unto the vine,\r\nand his ass's foal to the choice vine; he shall wash his robe\r\nin wine, and his clothes in the blood of the grape: his eyes\r\nare red with wine, and his teeth are whiter than milk.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_334_334\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_334_334\">[334]</a> I\r\nhave expounded these words in disputing against Faustus the\r\nManichæan; and I think it is enough to make the truth of\r\nthis prophecy shine, to remark that the death of Christ is predicted\r\nby the word about his lying down, and not the necessity,\r\nbut the voluntary character of His death, in the title of\r\nlion. That power He Himself proclaims in the gospel, saying,\r\n\"I have the power of laying down my life, and I have the\r\npower of taking it again. No man taketh it from me; but I\r\nlay it down of myself, and take it again.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_335_335\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_335_335\">[335]</a> So the lion roared,\r\nso He fulfilled what He said. For to this power what is added\r\nabout the resurrection refers, \"Who shall awake him?\" This\r\nmeans that no man but Himself has raised Him, who also\r\nsaid of His own body, \"Destroy this temple, and in three\r\ndays I will raise it up.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_336_336\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_336_336\">[336]</a> And the very nature of His death,\r\nthat is, the height of the cross, is understood by the single\r\nword, \"Thou art gone up.\" The evangelist explains what is\r\nadded, \"Lying down, thou hast slept,\" when he says, \"He\r\nbowed His head, and gave up the ghost.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_337_337\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_337_337\">[337]</a> Or at least His\r\nburial is to be understood, in which He lay down sleeping,\r\nand whence no man raised Him, as the prophets did some,\r\nand as He Himself did others; but He Himself rose up as if\r\nfrom sleep. As for His robe which He washes in wine, that\r\nis, cleanses from sin in His own blood, of which blood those\r\nwho are baptized know the mystery, so that he adds, \"And\r\nhis clothes in the blood of the grape,\" what is it but the\r\nChurch? \"And his eyes are red with wine,\" [these are] His\r\nspiritual people drunken with His cup, of which the psalm\r\nsings, \"And thy cup that makes drunken, how excellent it is!\"<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_161\">[Pg 161]</a></span>\r\n\"And his teeth are whiter than milk,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_338_338\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_338_338\">[338]</a>—that is, the nutritive\r\nwords which, according to the apostle, the babes drink, being\r\nas yet unfit for solid food.<a id=\"FNanchor_339_339\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_339_339\">[339]</a> And it is He in whom the promises\r\nof Judah were laid up, so that until they come, princes,\r\nthat is, the kings of Israel, shall never be lacking out of Judah.\r\n\"And He is the expectation of the nations.\" This is too plain\r\nto need exposition.</p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK SIXTEENTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-274"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"b3f9e96cea3e91f8f1881a50c54931ca64a60ed7bb420e61adb90a54631459bf","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":49,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Gen. xlix. 12","verse":12,"verse_end":12}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45305-Footnote_338_338","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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