{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Moses led the people out of Egypt in the last time of\r\nCecrops king of Athens, when Ascatades reigned in Assyria,\r\nMarathus in Sicyon, Triopas in Argos; and having led forth\r\nthe people, he gave them at Mount Sinai the law he received\r\nfrom God, which is called the Old Testament, because it has\r\nearthly promises, and because, through Jesus Christ, there\r\nwas to be a New Testament, in which the kingdom of heaven\r\nshould be promised. For the same order behoved to be\r\nobserved in this as is observed in each man who prospers\r\nin God, according to the saying of the apostle, \"That is not\r\nfirst which is spiritual, but that which is natural,\" since, as\r\nhe says, and that truly, \"The first man of the earth, is earthly;\r\nthe second man, from heaven, is heavenly.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_501_501\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_501_501\">[501]</a> Now Moses\r\nruled the people for forty years in the wilderness, and died a\r\nhundred and twenty years old, after he had prophesied of\r\nChrist by the types of carnal observances in the tabernacle,\r\npriesthood, and sacrifices, and many other mystic ordinances.\r\nJoshua the son of Nun succeeded Moses, and settled in the\r\nland of promise the people he had brought in, having by<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_229\">[Pg 229]</a></span>\r\ndivine authority conquered the people by whom it was\r\nformerly possessed. He also died, after ruling the people\r\ntwenty-seven years after the death of Moses, when Amyntas\r\nreigned in Assyria as the eighteenth king, Coracos as the sixteenth\r\nin Sicyon, Danaos as the tenth in Argos, Ericthonius\r\nas the fourth in Athens.</p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK EIGHTEENTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-375"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"6524c3e7ef78e4b1fa42cd42f7b2cc3d61e0ae8630746e4bf8d5cc952034e1ab","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":15,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"1 Cor. xv. 46","verse":46,"verse_end":46}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45305-Footnote_501_501","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_501_501","source_ebook":45305,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_501_501\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_501_501\"><span class=\"label\">[501]</span></a> 1 Cor. xv. 46, 47.</p></div>","source_sha256":"7e0ced9e70512f3cf050b53c9d548e36b70d468d875153869f95d8aff5bbb530","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45305/pg45305-images.html#Footnote_501_501","text_sha256":"f780413a89b6a67db6932736e0e1c03e3976a500148e204cbac785c724efb63e","verified":false,"work_id":null}