{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>The prophet Hosea speaks so very profoundly that it is\r\nlaborious work to penetrate his meaning. But, according to<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_248\">[Pg 248]</a></span>\r\npromise, we must insert something from his book. He says,\r\n\"And it shall come to pass that in the place where it was\r\nsaid unto them, Ye are not my people, there they shall be\r\ncalled the sons of the living God.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_514_514\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_514_514\">[514]</a> Even the apostles understood\r\nthis as a prophetic testimony of the calling of the nations\r\nwho did not formerly belong to God; and because this same\r\npeople of the Gentiles is itself spiritually among the children\r\nof Abraham, and for that reason is rightly called Israel, therefore\r\nhe goes on to say, \"And the children of Judah and the\r\nchildren of Israel shall be gathered together in one, and shall\r\nappoint themselves one headship, and shall ascend from the\r\nearth.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_515_515\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_515_515\">[515]</a> We should but weaken the savour of this prophetic\r\noracle if we set ourselves to expound it. Let the reader but\r\ncall to mind that corner-stone and those two walls of partition,\r\nthe one of the Jews, the other of the Gentiles,<a id=\"FNanchor_516_516\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_516_516\">[516]</a> and he will recognise\r\nthem, the one under the term sons of Judah, the other\r\nas sons of Israel, supporting themselves by one and the same\r\nheadship, and ascending from the earth. But that those carnal\r\nIsraelites who are now unwilling to believe in Christ shall\r\nafterward believe, that is, their children shall (for they themselves,\r\nof course, shall go to their own place by dying), this\r\nsame prophet testifies, saying, \"For the children of Israel shall\r\nabide many days without a king, without a prince, without a\r\nsacrifice, without an altar, without a priesthood, without manifestations.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_517_517\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_517_517\">[517]</a>\r\nWho does not see that the Jews are now thus?\r\nBut let us hear what he adds: \"And afterward shall the children\r\nof Israel return, and seek the Lord their God, and David\r\ntheir king, and shall be amazed at the Lord and at His goodness\r\nin the latter days.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_518_518\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_518_518\">[518]</a> Nothing is clearer than this prophecy,\r\nin which by David, as distinguished by the title of king,\r\nChrist is to be understood, \"who is made,\" as the apostle says,\r\n\"of the seed of David according to the flesh.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_519_519\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_519_519\">[519]</a> This prophet\r\nhas also foretold the resurrection of Christ on the third day,\r\nas it behoved to be foretold, with prophetic loftiness, when he\r\nsays, \"He will heal us after two days, and in the third day we\r\nshall rise again.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_520_520\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_520_520\">[520]</a> In agreement with this the apostle says\r\nto us, \"If ye be risen with Christ, seek those things which are<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_249\">[Pg 249]</a></span>\r\nabove.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_521_521\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_521_521\">[521]</a> Amos also prophesies thus concerning such things:\r\n\"Prepare thee, that thou mayst invoke thy God, O Israel; for\r\nlo, I am binding the thunder, and creating the spirit, and announcing\r\nto men their Christ.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_522_522\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_522_522\">[522]</a> And in another place he\r\nsays, \"In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that\r\nis fallen, and build up the breaches thereof; and I will raise\r\nup his ruins, and will build them up again as in the days of\r\nold: that the residue of men may inquire for me, and all the\r\nnations upon whom my name is invoked, saith the Lord that\r\ndoeth this.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_523_523\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_523_523\">[523]</a></p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK EIGHTEENTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-415"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"20d5c5debc92ab3c6e805ded05419b895b0c78d0a36696d11d5b5c5a28fe32ed","edition_title":"The City of God, Volume II","edition_translators":["Marcus Dods","George Wilson (Books XVII-XVIII)"],"edition_year":1871,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"GAL","chapter":2,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Gal. ii. 14-20","verse":14,"verse_end":20}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45305-Footnote_516_516","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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