{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>This Sabbath shall appear still more clearly if we count the\r\nages as days, in accordance with the periods of time defined\r\nin Scripture, for that period will be found to be the seventh.\r\nThe first age, as the first day, extends from Adam to the\r\ndeluge; the second from the deluge to Abraham, equalling the\r\nfirst, not in length of time, but in the number of generations,\r\nthere being ten in each. From Abraham to the advent of\r\nChrist there are, as the evangelist Matthew calculates, three\r\nperiods, in each of which are fourteen generations,—one period\r\nfrom Abraham to David, a second from David to the captivity,\r\na third from the captivity to the birth of Christ in the flesh.\r\nThere are thus five ages in all. The sixth is now passing, and\r\ncannot be measured by any number of generations, as it has\r\nbeen said, \"It is not for you to know the times, which the\r\nFather hath put in His own power.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_1058_1058\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1058_1058\">[1058]</a> After this period God\r\nshall rest as on the seventh day, when He shall give us (who\r\nshall be the seventh day) rest in Himself. But there is not now\r\nspace to treat of these ages; suffice it to say that the seventh\r\nshall be our Sabbath, which shall be brought to a close, not\r\nby an evening, but by the Lord's day, as an eighth and eternal\r\nday, consecrated by the resurrection of Christ, and prefiguring\r\nthe eternal repose not only of the spirit, but also of the body.\r\nThere we shall rest and see, see and love, love and praise.<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_545\">[Pg 545]</a></span>\r\nThis is what shall be in the end without end. For what other\r\nend do we propose to ourselves than to attain to the kingdom\r\nof which there is no end?</p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK TWENTY-SECOND.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-852"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"4d9c8eafd0ecaa5103fb91975b075db9144ebffcdab178b6586b4997374342ea","edition_title":"The City of God, Volume II","edition_translators":["Marcus Dods","George Wilson (Books XVII-XVIII)"],"edition_year":1871,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"ACT","chapter":1,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Acts i. 7","verse":7,"verse_end":7}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45305-Footnote_1058_1058","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_1058_1058","source_ebook":45305,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_1058_1058\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_1058_1058\"><span class=\"label\">[1058]</span></a> Acts i. 7.</p></div>","source_sha256":"7e0ced9e70512f3cf050b53c9d548e36b70d468d875153869f95d8aff5bbb530","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45305/pg45305-images.html#Footnote_1058_1058","text_sha256":"081eed497779bef1a276f660d1fb3c503a17dabfe74cff8942c5423e82c45d0a","verified":false,"work_id":null}