{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Having finished the prophecy of judgment, so far as the\r\nwicked are concerned, it remains that he speak also of the\r\ngood. Having briefly explained the Lord's words, \"These will\r\ngo away into everlasting punishment,\" it remains that he explain\r\nthe connected words, \"but the righteous into life eternal.\"<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_377\">[Pg 377]</a></span><a id=\"FNanchor_747_747\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_747_747\">[747]</a>\r\n\"And I saw,\" he says, \"a new heaven and a new earth: for\r\nthe first heaven and the first earth have passed away; and\r\nthere is no more sea.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_748_748\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_748_748\">[748]</a> This will take place in the order\r\nwhich he has by anticipation declared in the words, \"I saw\r\nOne sitting on the throne, from whose face heaven and earth\r\nfled.\" For as soon as those who are not written in the book\r\nof life have been judged and cast into eternal fire,—the nature\r\nof which fire, or its position in the world or universe, I suppose\r\nis known to no man, unless perhaps the divine Spirit\r\nreveal it to some one,—then shall the figure of this world pass\r\naway in a conflagration of universal fire, as once before the\r\nworld was flooded with a deluge of universal water. And by\r\nthis universal conflagration the qualities of the corruptible\r\nelements which suited our corruptible bodies shall utterly\r\nperish, and our substance shall receive such qualities as shall,\r\nby a wonderful transmutation, harmonize with our immortal\r\nbodies, so that, as the world itself is renewed to some better\r\nthing, it is fitly accommodated to men, themselves renewed in\r\ntheir flesh to some better thing. As for the statement, \"And\r\nthere shall be no more sea,\" I would not lightly say whether\r\nit is dried up with that excessive heat, or is itself also turned\r\ninto some better thing. For we read that there shall be a\r\nnew heaven and a new earth, but I do not remember to have\r\nanywhere read anything of a new sea, unless what I find in\r\nthis same book, \"As it were a sea of glass like crystal.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_749_749\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_749_749\">[749]</a> But\r\nhe was not then speaking of this end of the world, neither\r\ndoes he seem to speak of a literal sea, but \"as it were a sea.\"\r\nIt is possible that, as prophetic diction delights in mingling\r\nfigurative and real language, and thus in some sort veiling the\r\nsense, so the words \"And there is no more sea\" may be taken\r\nin the same sense as the previous phrase, \"And the sea presented\r\nthe dead which were in it.\" For then there shall be\r\nno more of this world, no more of the surgings and restlessness\r\nof human life, and it is this which is symbolized by the\r\n<i>sea</i>.</p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK TWENTIETH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-602"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"0bdefacd513524db1aa9195c57a72ef6fdb37773643be49f97940feb0a1215cf","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":25,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Matt. xxv. 46","verse":46,"verse_end":46}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45305-Footnote_747_747","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_747_747","source_ebook":45305,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_747_747\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_747_747\"><span class=\"label\">[747]</span></a> Matt. xxv. 46.</p></div>","source_sha256":"7e0ced9e70512f3cf050b53c9d548e36b70d468d875153869f95d8aff5bbb530","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45305/pg45305-images.html#Footnote_747_747","text_sha256":"fd60fedf087e2671683aefb9b12c7abf61c4475655bb8f4b618beff6c6910a67","verified":false,"work_id":null}