{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>What then does he say who comes to worship the priest of\r\nGod, even the Priest who is God? \"Put me into one part of\r\nThy priesthood, to eat bread.\" I do not wish to be set in the\r\nhonour of my fathers, which is none; put me in a part of Thy\r\npriesthood. For \"I have chosen to be mean in Thine house;\"<a id=\"FNanchor_383_383\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_383_383\">[383]</a>\r\nI desire to be a member, no matter what, or how small, of Thy\r\npriesthood. By the priesthood he here means the people itself,\r\nof which He is the Priest who is the Mediator between God\r\nand men, the man Christ Jesus.<a id=\"FNanchor_384_384\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_384_384\">[384]</a> This people the Apostle Peter\r\ncalls \"a holy people, a royal priesthood.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_385_385\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_385_385\">[385]</a> But some have\r\ntranslated, \"Of Thy sacrifice,\" not \"Of Thy priesthood,\" which\r\nno less signifies the same Christian people. Whence the\r\nApostle Paul says, \"We being many are one bread, one body.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_386_386\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_386_386\">[386]</a>\r\n[And again he says, \"Present your bodies a living sacrifice.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_387_387\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_387_387\">[387]</a>]\r\nWhat, therefore, he has added, to \"eat bread,\" also elegantly\r\nexpresses the very kind of sacrifice of which the Priest Himself\r\nsays, \"The bread which I will give is my flesh for the life\r\nof the world.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_388_388\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_388_388\">[388]</a> The same is the sacrifice not after the order\r\nof Aaron, but after the order of Melchisedec:<a id=\"FNanchor_389_389\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_389_389\">[389]</a> let him that\r\nreadeth understand.<a id=\"FNanchor_390_390\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_390_390\">[390]</a> Therefore this short and salutarily\r\nhumble confession, in which it is said, \"Put me in a part of\r\nThy priesthood, to eat bread,\" is itself the piece of money, for\r\nit is both brief, and it is the Word of God who dwells in the\r\nheart of one who believes. For because He had said above,\r\nthat He had given for food to Aaron's house the sacrificial\r\nvictims of the Old Testament, where He says, \"I have given\r\nthy father's house for food all things which are offered by fire\r\nof the children of Israel,\" which indeed were the sacrifices of\r\nthe Jews; therefore here He has said, \"To eat bread,\" which\r\nis in the New Testament the sacrifice of the Christians.</p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK SEVENTEENTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-303"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"26c47a3bfcddb51c23ded5732067d68d8a61bbbadd44eccb62a84df56fba445d","edition_title":"The City of God, Volume II","edition_translators":["Marcus Dods","George Wilson (Books XVII-XVIII)"],"edition_year":1871,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"MAT","chapter":24,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Matt. xxiv. 15","verse":15,"verse_end":15}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45305-Footnote_390_390","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_390_390","source_ebook":45305,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_390_390\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_390_390\"><span class=\"label\">[390]</span></a> Matt. xxiv. 15.</p></div>","source_sha256":"7e0ced9e70512f3cf050b53c9d548e36b70d468d875153869f95d8aff5bbb530","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45305/pg45305-images.html#Footnote_390_390","text_sha256":"09f20d384676de85de34778bfcaaee8bc84b2930e9088ddcff6e7a27945d01fb","verified":false,"work_id":null}