{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Jacob was sent by his parents to Mesopotamia that he\r\nmight take a wife there. These were his father's words on\r\nsending him: \"Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters\r\nof the Canaanites. Arise, fly to Mesopotamia, to the house of\r\nBethuel, thy mother's father, and take thee a wife from thence\r\nof the daughters of Laban thy mother's brother. And my\r\nGod bless thee, and increase thee, and multiply thee; and\r\nthou shalt be an assembly of peoples; and give to thee the\r\nblessing of Abraham thy father, and to thy seed after thee;\r\nthat thou mayest inherit the land wherein thou dwellest,\r\nwhich God gave unto Abraham.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_323_323\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_323_323\">[323]</a> Now we understand here\r\nthat the seed of Jacob is separated from Isaac's other seed\r\nwhich came through Esau. For when it is said, \"In Isaac\r\nshall thy seed be called,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_324_324\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_324_324\">[324]</a> by this seed is meant solely the\r\ncity of God; so that from it is separated Abraham's other\r\nseed, which was in the son of the bond woman, and which was\r\nto be in the sons of Keturah. But until now it had been\r\nuncertain regarding Isaac's twin-sons whether that blessing\r\nbelonged to both or only to one of them; and if to one,\r\nwhich of them it was. This is now declared when Jacob is\r\nprophetically blessed by his father, and it is said to him,<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_156\">[Pg 156]</a></span>\r\n\"And thou shalt be an assembly of peoples, and God give to\r\nthee the blessing of Abraham thy father.\"</p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK SIXTEENTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-266"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"b4d004e44398e71f196fe1fcb0569a76c2ae795899f4a673541cbf068739607e","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":21,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Gen. xxi. 12","verse":12,"verse_end":12}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45305-Footnote_324_324","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_324_324","source_ebook":45305,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_324_324\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_324_324\"><span class=\"label\">[324]</span></a> Gen. xxi. 12.</p></div>","source_sha256":"7e0ced9e70512f3cf050b53c9d548e36b70d468d875153869f95d8aff5bbb530","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45305/pg45305-images.html#Footnote_324_324","text_sha256":"a1627726aa2f6d957985c881eb794b9596a5894812f94d29a4bfeb927ade71c3","verified":false,"work_id":null}