{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Truly Jesus Himself shall extinguish by His presence that\r\nlast persecution which is to be made by Antichrist. For so\r\nit is written, that \"He shall slay him with the breath of His\r\nmouth, and empty him with the brightness of His presence.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_613_613\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_613_613\">[613]</a>\r\nIt is customary to ask, When shall that be? But this is\r\nquite unreasonable. For had it been profitable for us to\r\nknow this, by whom could it better have been told than by\r\nGod Himself, the Master, when the disciples questioned Him?\r\nFor they were not silent when with Him, but inquired of\r\nHim, saying, \"Lord, wilt Thou at this time present the kingdom\r\nto Israel, or when?\"<a id=\"FNanchor_614_614\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_614_614\">[614]</a> But He said, \"It is not for you\r\nto know the times, which the Father hath put in His own\r\npower.\" When they got that answer, they had not at all\r\nquestioned Him about the hour, or day, or year, but about the\r\ntime. In vain, then, do we attempt to compute definitely the\r\nyears that may remain to this world, when we may hear from\r\nthe mouth of the Truth that it is not for us to know this.\r\nYet some have said that four hundred, some five hundred,\r\nothers a thousand years, may be completed from the ascension\r\nof the Lord up to His final coming. But to point out how\r\neach of them supports his own opinion would take too long,\r\nand is not necessary; for indeed they use human conjectures,\r\nand bring forward nothing certain from the authority of the\r\ncanonical Scriptures. But on this subject He puts aside the\r\nfigures of the calculators, and orders silence, who says, \"It is\r\nnot for you to know the times, which the Father hath put in\r\nHis own power.\"</p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK EIGHTEENTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-480"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"7abba6d62d1e772a655f8c928486ceaf2b7650faa0f6c519e4f6b9561f5a2a53","edition_title":"The City of God, Volume II","edition_translators":["Marcus Dods","George Wilson (Books XVII-XVIII)"],"edition_year":1871,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"ISA","chapter":11,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Isa. xi. 4","verse":4,"verse_end":4},{"book":"2TH","chapter":1,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"2 Thess. i. 9","verse":9,"verse_end":9}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45305-Footnote_613_613","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_613_613","source_ebook":45305,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_613_613\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_613_613\"><span class=\"label\">[613]</span></a> Isa. xi. 4; 2 Thess. i. 9.</p></div>","source_sha256":"7e0ced9e70512f3cf050b53c9d548e36b70d468d875153869f95d8aff5bbb530","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45305/pg45305-images.html#Footnote_613_613","text_sha256":"af3837792a947bcb4fa7f007031831ccf9e39740eb9ad49dfd01a6906c5e92ac","verified":false,"work_id":null}