{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>And here follow the times of Abraham's sons, the one by\r\nHagar the bond maid, the other by Sarah the free woman,\r\nabout whom we have already spoken in the previous book.\r\nAs regards this transaction, Abraham is in no way to be\r\nbranded as guilty concerning this concubine, for he used\r\nher for the begetting of progeny, not for the gratification of\r\nlust; and not to insult, but rather to obey his wife, who supposed\r\nit would be a solace of her barrenness if she could\r\nmake use of the fruitful womb of her handmaid to supply\r\nthe defect of her own nature, and by that law of which<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_140\">[Pg 140]</a></span>\r\nthe apostle says, \"Likewise also the husband hath not power\r\nof his own body, but the wife,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_281_281\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_281_281\">[281]</a> could, as a wife, make use\r\nof him for childbearing by another, when she could not\r\ndo so in her own person. Here there is no wanton lust,\r\nno filthy lewdness. The handmaid is delivered to the husband\r\nby the wife for the sake of progeny, and is received\r\nby the husband for the sake of progeny, each seeking, not\r\nguilty excess, but natural fruit. And when the pregnant\r\nbond woman despised her barren mistress, and Sarah, with\r\nwomanly jealousy, rather laid the blame of this on her\r\nhusband, even then Abraham showed that he was not a\r\nslavish lover, but a free begetter of children, and that in\r\nusing Hagar he had guarded the chastity of Sarah his wife,\r\nand had gratified her will and not his own,—had received her\r\nwithout seeking, had gone in to her without being attached,\r\nhad impregnated without loving her,—for he says, \"Behold\r\nthy maid is in thy hands: do to her as it pleaseth thee;\"<a id=\"FNanchor_282_282\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_282_282\">[282]</a>\r\na man able to use women as a man should,—his wife temperately,\r\nhis handmaid compliantly, neither intemperately!</p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK SIXTEENTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-237"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"eb5c78c21dd93233636f4a210f0895e78925710eea540d011a66139770c3157f","edition_title":"The City of God, Volume II","edition_translators":["Marcus Dods","George Wilson (Books XVII-XVIII)"],"edition_year":1871,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"1CO","chapter":7,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"1 Cor. vii. 4","verse":4,"verse_end":4}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45305-Footnote_281_281","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_281_281","source_ebook":45305,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_281_281\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_281_281\"><span class=\"label\">[281]</span></a> 1 Cor. vii. 4.</p></div>","source_sha256":"7e0ced9e70512f3cf050b53c9d548e36b70d468d875153869f95d8aff5bbb530","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45305/pg45305-images.html#Footnote_281_281","text_sha256":"0623dfd87629f824c1dcd85ea77c430792e06fecfc3fc28a37bfd8f896105625","verified":false,"work_id":null}