{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Therefore the advance of the city of God, where it reached\r\nthe times of the kings, yielded a figure, when, on the rejection\r\nof Saul, David first obtained the kingdom on such a footing\r\nthat thenceforth his descendants should reign in the earthly\r\nJerusalem in continual succession; for the course of affairs\r\nsignified and foretold, what is not to be passed by in silence,\r\nconcerning the change of things to come, what belongs to both\r\nTestaments, the Old and the New,—where the priesthood and\r\nkingdom are changed by one who is a priest, and at the same\r\ntime a king, new and everlasting, even Christ Jesus. For both\r\nthe substitution in the ministry of God, on Eli's rejection as\r\npriest, of Samuel, who executed at once the office of priest\r\nand judge, and the establishment of David in the kingdom,\r\nwhen Saul was rejected, typified this of which I speak. And\r\nHannah herself, the mother of Samuel, who formerly was\r\nbarren, and afterwards was gladdened with fertility, does not\r\nseem to prophesy anything else, when she exultingly pours\r\nforth her thanksgiving to the Lord, on yielding up to God the\r\nsame boy she had born and weaned with the same piety with\r\nwhich she had vowed him. For she says, \"My heart is made\r\nstrong in the Lord, and my horn is exalted in my God; my\r\nmouth is enlarged over mine enemies; I am made glad in Thy\r\nsalvation. Because there is none holy as the Lord; and none\r\nis righteous as our God: there is none holy save Thee. Do\r\nnot glory so proudly, and do not speak lofty things, neither\r\nlet vaunting talk come out of your mouth: for a God of\r\nknowledge is the Lord, and a God preparing His curious\r\ndesigns. The bow of the mighty hath He made weak, and\r\nthe weak are girded with strength. They that were full of\r\nbread are diminished; and the hungry have passed beyond the\r\nearth: for the barren hath born seven; and she that hath\r\nmany children is waxed feeble. The Lord killeth and maketh\r\nalive: He bringeth down to hell, and bringeth up again. The\r\nLord maketh poor and maketh rich: He bringeth low and\r\nlifteth up. He raiseth up the poor out of the dust, and lifteth\r\nup the beggar from the dunghill, that He may set him among<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_171\">[Pg 171]</a></span>\r\nthe mighty of [His] people, and maketh them inherit the\r\nthrone of glory; giving the vow to him that voweth, and He\r\nhath blessed the years of the just: for man is not mighty in\r\nstrength. The Lord shall make His adversary weak: the Lord\r\nis holy. Let not the prudent glory in his prudence; and let\r\nnot the mighty glory in his might; and let not the rich glory\r\nin his riches: but let him that glorieth glory in this, to understand\r\nand know the Lord, and to do judgment and justice in\r\nthe midst of the earth. The Lord hath ascended into the\r\nheavens, and hath thundered: He shall judge the ends of the\r\nearth, for He is righteous: and He giveth strength to our kings,\r\nand shall exalt the horn of His Christ.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_348_348\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_348_348\">[348]</a></p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK SEVENTEENTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-290"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"9b0da4001dae53fb3bc71265b868b6b3a4926586109516c6b9b64586d70f8033","edition_title":"The City of God, Volume II","edition_translators":["Marcus Dods","George Wilson (Books XVII-XVIII)"],"edition_year":1871,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg45305-Footnote_348_348","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_348_348","source_ebook":45305,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_348_348\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_348_348\"><span class=\"label\">[348]</span></a> 1 Sam. ii. 1-10.</p></div>","source_sha256":"7e0ced9e70512f3cf050b53c9d548e36b70d468d875153869f95d8aff5bbb530","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45305/pg45305-images.html#Footnote_348_348","text_sha256":"9f1675874206bc0754df3d2f12b66839001785d64bd861e9af118749729a014d","verified":false,"work_id":null}