{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>But in that whole time after they returned from Babylon,\r\nafter Malachi, Haggai, and Zechariah, who then prophesied,\r\nand Ezra, they had no prophets down to the time of the\r\nSaviour's advent except another Zechariah, the father of John,\r\nand Elisabeth his wife, when the nativity of Christ was already\r\nclose at hand; and when He was already born, Simeon the\r\naged, and Anna a widow, and now very old; and, last of all,\r\nJohn himself, who, being a young man, did not predict that\r\nChrist, now a young man, was to come, but by prophetic knowledge\r\npointed Him out although unknown; for which reason\r\nthe Lord Himself says, \"The law and the prophets were until\r\nJohn.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_496_496\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_496_496\">[496]</a> But the prophesying of these five is made known to\r\nus in the gospel, where the virgin mother of our Lord herself\r\nis also found to have prophesied before John. But this\r\nprophecy of theirs the wicked Jews do not receive; but those<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_216\">[Pg 216]</a></span>\r\ninnumerable persons received it who from them believed the\r\ngospel. For then truly Israel was divided in two, by that\r\ndivision which was foretold by Samuel the prophet to king\r\nSaul as immutable. But even the reprobate Jews hold\r\nMalachi, Haggai, Zechariah, and Ezra as the last received into\r\ncanonical authority. For there are also writings of these, as\r\nof others, who being but a very few in the great multitude\r\nof prophets, have written those books which have obtained\r\ncanonical authority, of whose predictions it seems good to me\r\nto put in this work some which pertain to Christ and His\r\nChurch; and this, by the Lord's help, shall be done more conveniently\r\nin the following book, that we may not further\r\nburden this one, which is already too long.</p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK SEVENTEENTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-350"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"f75ab94ca991cd4de55a1285e2701ad6ebd029478530d5aaf961ed3b970aedee","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":11,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Matt. xi. 13","verse":13,"verse_end":13}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45305-Footnote_496_496","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_496_496","source_ebook":45305,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_496_496\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_496_496\"><span class=\"label\">[496]</span></a> Matt. xi. 13.</p></div>","source_sha256":"7e0ced9e70512f3cf050b53c9d548e36b70d468d875153869f95d8aff5bbb530","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45305/pg45305-images.html#Footnote_496_496","text_sha256":"c21c9e218632a16d5e84b1e9dfc1810021157a9506bfb84bb7410489f190df52","verified":false,"work_id":null}