{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>But the Scripture has not what is read in most Latin\r\ncopies, \"The Lord hath rent the kingdom of Israel out of\r\nthine hand this day,\" but just as we have set it down it is\r\nfound in the Greek copies, \"The Lord hath rent the kingdom\r\nfrom Israel out of thine hand;\" that the words \"out of thine\r\nhand\" may be understood to mean \"from Israel.\" Therefore\r\nthis man figuratively represented the people of Israel, which\r\nwas to lose the kingdom, Christ Jesus our Lord being about<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_187\">[Pg 187]</a></span>\r\nto reign, not carnally, but spiritually. And when it is said\r\nof Him, \"And will give it to thy neighbour,\" that is to be referred\r\nto the fleshly kinship, for Christ, according to the flesh,\r\nwas of Israel, whence also Saul sprang. But what is added,\r\n\"Good above thee,\" may indeed be understood, \"Better than\r\nthee,\" and indeed some have thus translated it; but it is\r\nbetter taken thus, \"Good above thee,\" as meaning that because\r\nHe is good, therefore He must be above thee, according\r\nto that other prophetic saying, \"Till I put all Thine enemies\r\nunder Thy feet.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_400_400\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_400_400\">[400]</a> And among them is Israel, from whom, as\r\nHis persecutor, Christ took away the kingdom; although the\r\nIsrael in whom there was no guile may have been there too,\r\na sort of grain, as it were, of that chaff. For certainly thence\r\ncame the apostles, thence so many martyrs, of whom Stephen,\r\nis the first, thence so many churches, which the Apostle Paul\r\nnames, magnifying God in their conversion.</p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK SEVENTEENTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-309"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"81685d74b6002e48b4cac157936a5d292d41d5af2518eca81aafd94d7ce81eaf","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":110,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Ps. cx. 1","verse":1,"verse_end":1}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45305-Footnote_400_400","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_400_400","source_ebook":45305,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_400_400\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_400_400\"><span class=\"label\">[400]</span></a> Ps. cx. 1.</p></div>","source_sha256":"7e0ced9e70512f3cf050b53c9d548e36b70d468d875153869f95d8aff5bbb530","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45305/pg45305-images.html#Footnote_400_400","text_sha256":"ed0c3ed01103c59195d4fc605ebf9df16c7ca064b50d6edd15f9b253ac3e368c","verified":false,"work_id":null}