{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Zechariah says of Christ and the Church, \"Rejoice greatly,\r\nO daughter of Sion; shout joyfully, O daughter of Jerusalem:\r\nbehold, thy King shall come unto thee, just and the Saviour;\r\nHimself poor, and mounting an ass, and a colt the foal of an\r\nass: and His dominion shall be from sea to sea, and from the\r\nriver even to the ends of the earth.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_563_563\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_563_563\">[563]</a> How this was done,<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_260\">[Pg 260]</a></span>\r\nwhen the Lord Christ on His journey used a beast of burden\r\nof this kind, we read in the Gospel, where, also, as much of\r\nthis prophecy is quoted as appears sufficient for the context.\r\nIn another place, speaking in the Spirit of prophecy to Christ\r\nHimself of the remission of sins through His blood, he says,\r\n\"Thou also, by the blood of Thy testament, hast sent forth\r\nThy prisoners from the lake wherein is no water.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_564_564\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_564_564\">[564]</a> Different\r\nopinions may be held, consistently with right belief, as\r\nto what he meant by this lake. Yet it seems to me that no\r\nmeaning suits better than that of the depth of human misery,\r\nwhich is, as it were, dry and barren, where there are no\r\nstreams of righteousness, but only the mire of iniquity. For\r\nit is said of it in the Psalms, \"And He led me forth out of\r\nthe lake of misery, and from the miry clay.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_565_565\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_565_565\">[565]</a></p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK EIGHTEENTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-438"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"2ec63d87c47132950322b3a2a6c377adfbcc0bc099226d4aadf766efc6bd6d5b","edition_title":"The City of God, Volume II","edition_translators":["Marcus Dods","George Wilson (Books XVII-XVIII)"],"edition_year":1871,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"ZEC","chapter":9,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Zech. ix. 11","verse":11,"verse_end":11}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45305-Footnote_564_564","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_564_564","source_ebook":45305,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_564_564\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_564_564\"><span class=\"label\">[564]</span></a> Zech. ix. 11.</p></div>","source_sha256":"7e0ced9e70512f3cf050b53c9d548e36b70d468d875153869f95d8aff5bbb530","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45305/pg45305-images.html#Footnote_564_564","text_sha256":"0895159c176a605242fe2701fd608434412607d6e8a063cef56b55781889a4a1","verified":false,"work_id":null}