{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Sarah, in fact, was barren; and, despairing of offspring, and\r\nbeing resolved that she would have at least through her handmaid\r\nthat blessing she saw she could not in her own person\r\nprocure, she gave her handmaid to her husband, to whom she\r\nherself had been unable to bear children. From him she required\r\nthis conjugal duty, exercising her own right in another's\r\nwomb. And thus Ishmael was born according to the common<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_53\">[Pg 53]</a></span>\r\nlaw of human generation, by sexual intercourse. Therefore it\r\nis said that he was born \"according to the flesh,\"—not because\r\nsuch births are not the gifts of God, nor His handiwork, whose\r\ncreative wisdom \"reaches,\" as it is written, \"from one end to\r\nanother mightily, and sweetly doth she order all things,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_136_136\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_136_136\">[136]</a>\r\nbut because, in a case in which the gift of God, which was\r\nnot due to men and was the gratuitous largess of grace, was\r\nto be conspicuous, it was requisite that a son be given in\r\na way which no effort of nature could compass. Nature\r\ndenies children to persons of the age which Abraham and\r\nSarah had now reached; besides that, in Sarah's case, she was\r\nbarren even in her prime. This nature, so constituted that\r\noffspring could not be looked for, symbolized the nature of\r\nthe human race vitiated by sin and by just consequence condemned,\r\nwhich deserves no future felicity. Fitly, therefore,\r\ndoes Isaac, the child of promise, typify the children of grace,\r\nthe citizens of the free city, who dwell together in everlasting\r\npeace, in which self-love and self-will have no place, but a\r\nministering love that rejoices in the common joy of all, of\r\nmany hearts makes one, that is to say, secures a perfect\r\nconcord.</p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK FIFTEENTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-101"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"be0c47ccb616b199c55592e782b152551d8520c028d894cc47d183535b458399","edition_title":"The City of God, Volume II","edition_translators":["Marcus Dods","George Wilson (Books XVII-XVIII)"],"edition_year":1871,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"WIS","chapter":8,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Wisdom viii. 1","verse":1,"verse_end":1}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45305-Footnote_136_136","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_136_136","source_ebook":45305,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_136_136\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_136_136\"><span class=\"label\">[136]</span></a> Wisdom viii. 1.</p></div>","source_sha256":"7e0ced9e70512f3cf050b53c9d548e36b70d468d875153869f95d8aff5bbb530","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45305/pg45305-images.html#Footnote_136_136","text_sha256":"2756d99c75655f3880088a5ecbfc7c6fa8ecf99e2cfaf6cf188ec4cda46bfc7a","verified":false,"work_id":null}