{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>But in whatever manner the generations of Cain's line are\r\ntraced downwards, whether it be by first-born sons or by the\r\nheirs to the throne, it seems to me that I must by no means\r\nomit to notice that, when Lamech had been set down as the\r\nseventh from Adam, there were named, in addition, as many\r\nof his children as made up this number to eleven, which is\r\nthe number signifying sin; for three sons and one daughter\r\nare added. The wives of Lamech have another signification,\r\ndifferent from that which I am now pressing. For at present\r\nI am speaking of the children, and not of those by whom the\r\nchildren were begotten. Since, then, the law is symbolized\r\nby the number ten,—whence that memorable Decalogue,—there\r\nis no doubt that the number eleven, which goes beyond<a id=\"FNanchor_196_196\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_196_196\">[196]</a>\r\nten, symbolizes the transgression of the law, and consequently\r\nsin. For this reason, eleven veils of goat's skin were ordered\r\nto be hung in the tabernacle of the testimony, which served\r\nin the wanderings of God's people as an ambulatory temple.\r\nAnd in that haircloth there was a reminder of sins, because\r\nthe goats were to be set on the left hand of the Judge; and\r\ntherefore, when we confess our sins, we prostrate ourselves in\r\nhaircloth, as if we were saying what is written in the psalm,\r\n\"My sin is ever before me.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_197_197\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_197_197\">[197]</a> The progeny of Adam, then,\r\nby Cain the murderer, is completed in the number eleven,\r\nwhich symbolizes sin; and this number itself is made up by\r\na woman, as it was by the same sex that beginning was made\r\nof sin by which we all die. And it was committed that the\r\npleasure of the flesh, which resists the spirit, might follow;\r\nand so Naamah, the daughter of Lamech, means \"pleasure.\"\r\nBut from Adam to Noah, in the line of Seth, there are ten\r\ngenerations. And to Noah three sons are added, of whom,\r\nwhile one fell into sin, two were blessed by their father; so\r\nthat, if you deduct the reprobate and add the gracious sons to\r\nthe number, you get twelve,—a number signalized in the case<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_89\">[Pg 89]</a></span>\r\nof the patriarchs and of the apostles, and made up of the parts\r\nof the number seven multiplied into one another,—for three\r\ntimes four, or four times three, give twelve. These things\r\nbeing so, I see that I must consider and mention how these\r\ntwo lines, which by their separate genealogies depict the two\r\ncities, one of earth-born, the other of regenerated persons,\r\nbecame afterwards so mixed and confused, that the whole\r\nhuman race, with the exception of eight persons, deserved to\r\nperish in the deluge.</p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK FIFTEENTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-149"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"a931198c10745e6181279129ac74fd32a25993b56290da66e9065e7d66e68ff1","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":51,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Ps. li. 3","verse":3,"verse_end":3}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45305-Footnote_197_197","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_197_197","source_ebook":45305,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_197_197\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_197_197\"><span class=\"label\">[197]</span></a> Ps. li. 3.</p></div>","source_sha256":"7e0ced9e70512f3cf050b53c9d548e36b70d468d875153869f95d8aff5bbb530","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45305/pg45305-images.html#Footnote_197_197","text_sha256":"0a1fe2b0c93350fa52ee52fd3676a86f4a25ca17046e8c632c934b124f8242df","verified":false,"work_id":null}