{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>In the same vision, God in speaking to him also says, \"I\r\nam God that brought thee out of the region of the Chaldees,\r\nto give thee this land to inherit it.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_273_273\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_273_273\">[273]</a> And when Abram\r\nasked whereby he might know that he should inherit it, God\r\nsaid to him, \"Take me an heifer of three years old, and a\r\nshe-goat of three years old, and a ram of three years old, and\r\na turtle-dove, and a pigeon. And he took unto him all these,\r\nand divided them in the midst, and laid each piece one against\r\nanother; but the birds divided he not. And the fowls came\r\ndown,\" as it is written, \"on the carcases, and Abram sat\r\ndown by them. But about the going down of the sun, great\r\nfear fell upon Abram; and, lo, an horror of great darkness fell\r\nupon him. And He said unto Abram, Know of a surety that\r\nthy seed shall be a stranger in a land not theirs, and they shall\r\nreduce them to servitude; and shall afflict them four hundred\r\nyears: but the nation whom they shall serve will I judge;\r\nand afterward shall they come out hither with great substance.\r\nAnd thou shalt go to thy fathers in peace; kept in a good old\r\nage. But in the fourth generation they shall come hither\r\nagain: for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet full. And\r\nwhen the sun was setting, there was a flame, and a smoking\r\nfurnace, and lamps of fire, that passed through between those\r\npieces. In that day the Lord made a covenant with Abram,\r\nsaying, Unto thy seed will I give this land, from the river of\r\nEgypt unto the great river Euphrates: the Kenites, and the\r\nKenizzites, and the Kadmonites, and the Hittites, and the Perizzites,\r\nand the Rephaims, and the Amorites, and the Canaanites,\r\nand the Hivites, and the Girgashites, and the Jebusites.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_274_274\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_274_274\">[274]</a></p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK SIXTEENTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-232"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"a8a61688dcc4e1ce73a0567d58cd0120fb2ab3eea8dba1c9d768fb52fffd608a","edition_title":"The City of God, Volume II","edition_translators":["Marcus Dods","George Wilson (Books XVII-XVIII)"],"edition_year":1871,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"GEN","chapter":15,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Gen. xv. 9-21","verse":9,"verse_end":21}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45305-Footnote_274_274","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_274_274","source_ebook":45305,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_274_274\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_274_274\"><span class=\"label\">[274]</span></a> Gen. xv. 9-21.</p></div>","source_sha256":"7e0ced9e70512f3cf050b53c9d548e36b70d468d875153869f95d8aff5bbb530","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45305/pg45305-images.html#Footnote_274_274","text_sha256":"dd902ccc78b61d1bfc4a78ed5c8a4ab1656820e3e36419390f7cd8b6498b951e","verified":false,"work_id":null}