{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>The evangelist John has spoken of these two resurrections\r\nin the book which is called the Apocalypse, but in such a\r\nway that some Christians do not understand the first of the\r\ntwo, and so construe the passage into ridiculous fancies. For\r\nthe Apostle John says in the foresaid book, \"And I saw an\r\nangel come down from heaven.... Blessed and holy is he\r\nthat hath part in the first resurrection: on such the second\r\ndeath hath no power; but they shall be priests of God and of\r\nChrist, and shall reign with Him a thousand years.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_699_699\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_699_699\">[699]</a> Those\r\nwho, on the strength of this passage, have suspected that the\r\nfirst resurrection is future and bodily, have been moved, among\r\nother things, specially by the number of a thousand years, as\r\nif it were a fit thing that the saints should thus enjoy a kind\r\nof Sabbath-rest during that period, a holy leisure after the\r\nlabours of the six thousand years since man was created, and\r\nwas on account of his great sin dismissed from the blessedness\r\nof paradise into the woes of this mortal life, so that thus, as it\r\nis written, \"One day is with the Lord as a thousand years,\r\nand a thousand years as one day,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_700_700\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_700_700\">[700]</a> there should follow on\r\nthe completion of six thousand years, as of six days, a kind of\r\nseventh-day Sabbath in the succeeding thousand years; and\r\nthat it is for this purpose the saints rise, viz. to celebrate\r\nthis Sabbath. And this opinion would not be objectionable,\r\nif it were believed that the joys of the saints in that Sabbath\r\nshall be spiritual, and consequent on the presence of God;\r\nfor I myself, too, once held this opinion.<a id=\"FNanchor_701_701\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_701_701\">[701]</a> But, as they assert\r\nthat those who then rise again shall enjoy the leisure of immoderate<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_357\">[Pg 357]</a></span>\r\ncarnal banquets, furnished with an amount of meat\r\nand drink such as not only to shock the feeling of the temperate,\r\nbut even to surpass the measure of credulity itself,\r\nsuch assertions can be believed only by the carnal. They who\r\ndo believe them are called by the spiritual Chiliasts, which\r\nwe may literally reproduce by the name Millenarians.<a id=\"FNanchor_702_702\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_702_702\">[702]</a> It\r\nwere a tedious process to refute these opinions point by point:\r\nwe prefer proceeding to show how that passage of Scripture\r\nshould be understood.</p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK TWENTIETH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-576"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"bf4c9c2fd4efc5bbbb935f0901f2e5ff2f1544126a8b9c3e66ea0e19e2cde764","edition_title":"The City of God, Volume II","edition_translators":["Marcus Dods","George Wilson (Books XVII-XVIII)"],"edition_year":1871,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"REV","chapter":20,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Rev. xx. 1-6","verse":1,"verse_end":6}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45305-Footnote_699_699","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_699_699","source_ebook":45305,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_699_699\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_699_699\"><span class=\"label\">[699]</span></a> Rev. xx. 1-6. The whole passage is quoted.</p></div>","source_sha256":"7e0ced9e70512f3cf050b53c9d548e36b70d468d875153869f95d8aff5bbb530","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45305/pg45305-images.html#Footnote_699_699","text_sha256":"8264c333674cd1f2ba2afbbcdd4cbf45904b2269549ab034c94dc87aba50e690","verified":false,"work_id":null}