{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Therefore let the Church of Christ, the city of the great\r\nKing,<a id=\"FNanchor_349_349\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_349_349\">[349]</a> full of grace, prolific of offspring, let her say what the\r\nprophecy uttered about her so long before by the mouth of\r\nthis pious mother confesses, \"My heart is made strong in\r\nthe Lord, and my horn is exalted in my God.\" Her heart is\r\ntruly made strong, and her horn is truly exalted, because not\r\nin herself, but in the Lord her God. \"My mouth is enlarged\r\nover mine enemies;\" because even in pressing straits the\r\nword of God is not bound, not even in preachers who are\r\nbound.<a id=\"FNanchor_350_350\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_350_350\">[350]</a> \"I am made glad,\" she says, \"in Thy salvation.\"\r\nThis is Christ Jesus Himself, whom old Simeon, as we read\r\nin the Gospel, embracing as a little one, yet recognising as\r\ngreat, said, \"Lord, now lettest Thou Thy servant depart in\r\npeace, for mine eyes have seen Thy salvation.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_351_351\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_351_351\">[351]</a> Therefore\r\nmay the Church say, \"I am made glad in Thy salvation. For\r\nthere is none holy as the Lord, and none is righteous as our\r\nGod;\" as holy and sanctifying, just and justifying.<a id=\"FNanchor_352_352\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_352_352\">[352]</a> \"There\r\nis none holy beside Thee;\" because no one becomes so except\r\nby reason of Thee. And then it follows, \"Do not glory so\r\nproudly, and do not speak lofty things, neither let vaunting\r\ntalk come out of your mouth. For a God of knowledge is\r\nthe Lord.\" He knows you even when no one knows; for\r\n\"he who thinketh himself to be something when he is nothing\r\ndeceiveth himself.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_353_353\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_353_353\">[353]</a> These things are said to the adversaries\r\nof the city of God who belong to Babylon, who presume\r\nin their own strength, and glory in themselves, not in the\r\nLord; of whom are also the carnal Israelites, the earth-born\r\ninhabitants of the earthly Jerusalem, who, as saith the apostle,\r\n\"being ignorant of the righteousness of God,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_354_354\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_354_354\">[354]</a> that is, which\r\nGod, who alone is just, and the justifier, gives to man, \"and\r\nwishing to establish their own,\" that is, which is as it were\r\nprocured by their own selves, not bestowed by Him, \"are not\r\nsubject to the righteousness of God,\" just because they are<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_173\">[Pg 173]</a></span>\r\nproud, and think they are able to please God with their own,\r\nnot with that which is of God, who is the God of knowledge,\r\nand therefore also takes the oversight of consciences, there\r\nbeholding the thoughts of men that they are vain,<a id=\"FNanchor_355_355\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_355_355\">[355]</a> if they\r\nare of men, and are not from Him. \"And preparing,\" she\r\nsays, \"His curious designs.\" What curious designs do we\r\nthink these are, save that the proud must fall, and the humble\r\nrise? These curious designs she recounts, saying, \"The bow\r\nof the mighty is made weak, and the weak are girded with\r\nstrength.\" The bow is made weak, that is, the intention of\r\nthose who think themselves so powerful, that without the gift\r\nand help of God they are able by human sufficiency to fulfil\r\nthe divine commandments; and those are girded with strength\r\nwhose inward cry is, \"Have mercy upon me, O Lord, for I\r\nam weak.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_356_356\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_356_356\">[356]</a></p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK SEVENTEENTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-292"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"48b91ce51bd674923d856a31e40bd375fe8288072b3de6d68fa8316637b4ec94","edition_title":"The City of God, Volume II","edition_translators":["Marcus Dods","George Wilson (Books XVII-XVIII)"],"edition_year":1871,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"PSA","chapter":48,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Ps. xlviii. 2","verse":2,"verse_end":2}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45305-Footnote_349_349","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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