{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Therefore prophetic utterances of three kinds are to be\r\nfound; forasmuch as there are some relating to the earthly\r\nJerusalem, some to the heavenly, and some to both. I think\r\nit proper to prove what I say by examples. The prophet\r\nNathan was sent to convict king David of heinous sin, and\r\npredict to him what future evils should be consequent on it.\r\nWho can question that this and the like pertain to the terrestrial\r\ncity, whether publicly, that is, for the safety or help of\r\nthe people, or privately, when there are given forth for each\r\none's private good divine utterances whereby something of\r\nthe future may be known for the use of temporal life? But\r\nwhere we read, \"Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I\r\nwill make for the house of Israel, and for the house of Judah,\r\na new testament: not according to the testament that I settled\r\nfor their fathers in the day when I laid hold of their hand to\r\nlead them out of the land of Egypt; because they continued\r\nnot in my testament, and I regarded them not, saith the\r\nLord. For this is the testament that I will make for the\r\nhouse of Israel: after those days, saith the Lord, I will give\r\nmy laws in their mind, and will write them upon their hearts,\r\nand I will see to them; and I will be to them a God, and\r\nthey shall be to me a people;\"<a id=\"FNanchor_347_347\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_347_347\">[347]</a>—without doubt this is prophesied\r\nto the Jerusalem above, whose reward is God Himself,\r\nand whose chief and entire good it is to have Him, and\r\nto be His. But this pertains to both, that the city of\r\nGod is called Jerusalem, and that it is prophesied the house<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_169\">[Pg 169]</a></span>\r\nof God shall be in it; and this prophecy seems to be fulfilled\r\nwhen king Solomon builds that most noble temple. For\r\nthese things both happened in the earthly Jerusalem, as history\r\nshows, and were types of the heavenly Jerusalem. And this\r\nkind of prophecy, as it were compacted and commingled of\r\nboth the others in the ancient canonical books, containing\r\nhistorical narratives, is of very great significance, and has exercised\r\nand exercises greatly the wits of those who search holy\r\nwrit. For example, what we read of historically as predicted\r\nand fulfilled in the seed of Abraham according to the flesh,\r\nwe must also inquire the allegorical meaning of, as it is to be\r\nfulfilled in the seed of Abraham according to faith. And so\r\nmuch is this the case, that some have thought there is nothing\r\nin these books either foretold and effected, or effected although\r\nnot foretold, that does not insinuate something else which is\r\nto be referred by figurative signification to the city of God on\r\nhigh, and to her children who are pilgrims in this life. But\r\nif this be so, then the utterances of the prophets, or rather the\r\nwhole of those Scriptures that are reckoned under the title\r\nof the Old Testament, will be not of three, but of two different\r\nkinds. For there will be nothing there which pertains to the\r\nterrestrial Jerusalem only, if whatever is there said and fulfilled\r\nof or concerning her signifies something which also\r\nrefers by allegorical prefiguration to the celestial Jerusalem;\r\nbut there will be only two kinds, one that pertains to the free\r\nJerusalem, the other to both. But just as, I think, they err\r\ngreatly who are of opinion that none of the records of affairs\r\nin that kind of writings mean anything more than that they\r\nso happened, so I think those very daring who contend that\r\nthe whole gist of their contents lies in allegorical significations.\r\nTherefore I have said they are threefold, not twofold. Yet, in\r\nholding this opinion, I do not blame those who may be able\r\nto draw out of everything there a spiritual meaning, only\r\nsaving, first of all, the historical truth. For the rest, what\r\nbeliever can doubt that those things are spoken vainly which\r\nare such that, whether said to have been done or to be yet to\r\ncome, they do not beseem either human or divine affairs? Who\r\nwould not recall these to spiritual understanding if he could,\r\nor confess that they should be recalled by him who is able?</p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK SEVENTEENTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-288"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"9515ae4759ec1bc6dbaec42b6b871008c9e3fb986ee5d5dabcebe84b1996d22d","edition_title":"The City of God, Volume II","edition_translators":["Marcus Dods","George Wilson (Books XVII-XVIII)"],"edition_year":1871,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"HEB","chapter":8,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Heb. viii. 8-10","verse":8,"verse_end":10}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45305-Footnote_347_347","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. 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