{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>On Abraham's return out of Egypt to the place he had left,\r\nLot, his brother's son, departed from him into the land of Sodom,\r\nwithout breach of charity. For they had grown rich, and\r\nbegan to have many herdmen of cattle, and when these strove\r\ntogether, they avoided in this way the pugnacious discord of\r\ntheir families. Indeed, as human affairs go, this cause might\r\neven have given rise to some strife between themselves. Consequently\r\nthese are the words of Abraham to Lot, when taking<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_133\">[Pg 133]</a></span>\r\nprecaution against this evil, \"Let there be no strife between\r\nme and thee, and between my herdmen and thy herdmen; for\r\nwe be brethren. Behold, is not the whole land before thee?\r\nSeparate thyself from me: if thou wilt go to the left hand, I\r\nwill go to the right; or if thou wilt go to the right hand, I\r\nwill go to the left.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_268_268\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_268_268\">[268]</a> From this, perhaps, has arisen a pacific\r\ncustom among men, that when there is any partition of earthly\r\nthings, the greater should make the division, the less the\r\nchoice.</p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK SIXTEENTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-224"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"ca9634429de7ef093baead01ed1b7d131b07018c7c12ca6f961b7fa7780e0994","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":13,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Gen. xiii. 8","verse":8,"verse_end":8}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45305-Footnote_268_268","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_268_268","source_ebook":45305,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_268_268\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_268_268\"><span class=\"label\">[268]</span></a> Gen. xiii. 8, 9.</p></div>","source_sha256":"7e0ced9e70512f3cf050b53c9d548e36b70d468d875153869f95d8aff5bbb530","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45305/pg45305-images.html#Footnote_268_268","text_sha256":"b4c89e231a5a62c2671cc40adb73aa093f3332766fb5124fe95a47e4247c3d3d","verified":false,"work_id":null}