{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Many passages I omit, because, though they seem to refer\r\nto the last judgment, yet on a closer examination they are\r\nfound to be ambiguous, or to allude rather to some other\r\nevent,—whether to that coming of the Saviour which continually\r\noccurs in His Church, that is, in His members, in\r\nwhich He comes little by little, and piece by piece, since the\r\nwhole Church is His body, or to the destruction of the\r\nearthly Jerusalem. For when He speaks even of this, He often\r\nuses language which is applicable to the end of the world and\r\nthat last and great day of judgment, so that these two events\r\ncannot be distinguished unless all the corresponding passages\r\nbearing on the subject in the three evangelists, Matthew,\r\nMark, and Luke, are compared with one another,—for some\r\nthings are put more obscurely by one evangelist and more\r\nplainly by another,—so that it becomes apparent what things\r\nare meant to be referred to one event. It is this which I\r\nhave been at pains to do in a letter which I wrote to Hesychius\r\nof blessed memory, bishop of Salon, and entitled, \"Of\r\nthe End of the World.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_691_691\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_691_691\">[691]</a></p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK TWENTIETH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-570"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"c08534f2cb9c98c1adfad9e46068fcc1104d82427251512a3eb9fe1784b7c015","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_691_691","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_691_691","source_ebook":45305,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_691_691\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_691_691\"><span class=\"label\">[691]</span></a> <i>Ep.</i> 199.</p></div>","source_sha256":"7e0ced9e70512f3cf050b53c9d548e36b70d468d875153869f95d8aff5bbb530","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45305/pg45305-images.html#Footnote_691_691","text_sha256":"ab70bc3c23d870017a041fcc40274b9d69af99879f98bff0734c6a784c6e271a","verified":false,"work_id":null}