{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>What did Abraham mean by marrying Keturah after\r\nSarah's death? Far be it from us to suspect him of incontinence,\r\nespecially when he had reached such an age and such\r\nsanctity of faith. Or was he still seeking to beget children,\r\nthough he held fast, with most approved faith, the promise\r\nof God that his children should be multiplied out of Isaac as\r\nthe stars of heaven and the dust of the earth? And yet, if\r\nHagar and Ishmael, as the apostle teaches us, signified the\r\ncarnal people of the old covenant, why may not Keturah and\r\nher sons also signify the carnal people who think they belong\r\nto the new covenant? For both are called both the wives\r\nand the concubines of Abraham; but Sarah is never called a\r\nconcubine (but only a wife). For when Hagar is given to\r\nAbraham, it is written, \"And Sarai, Abram's wife, took Hagar\r\nthe Egyptian, her handmaid, after Abram had dwelt ten years\r\nin the land of Canaan, and gave her to her husband Abram\r\nto be his wife.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_312_312\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_312_312\">[312]</a> And of Keturah, whom he took after\r\nSarah's departure, we read, \"Then again Abraham took a\r\nwife, whose name was Keturah.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_313_313\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_313_313\">[313]</a> Lo, both are called wives,\r\nyet both are found to have been concubines; for the Scripture\r\nafterward says, \"And Abraham gave his whole estate\r\nunto Isaac his son. But unto the sons of his concubines\r\nAbraham gave gifts, and sent them away from his son Isaac,\r\n(while he yet lived,) eastward, unto the east country.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_314_314\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_314_314\">[314]</a> Therefore\r\nthe sons of the concubines, that is, the heretics and the\r\ncarnal Jews, have some gifts, but do not attain the promised\r\nkingdom; \"For they which are the children of the flesh, these\r\nare not the children of God: but the children of the promise\r\nare counted for the seed, of whom it was said, In Isaac shall\r\nthy seed be called.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_315_315\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_315_315\">[315]</a> For I do not see why Keturah, who<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_151\">[Pg 151]</a></span>\r\nwas married after the wife's death, should be called a concubine,\r\nexcept on account of this mystery. But if any one is\r\nunwilling to put such meanings on these things, he need not\r\ncalumniate Abraham. For what if even this was provided\r\nagainst the heretics who were to be the opponents of second\r\nmarriages, so that it might be shown that it was no sin in the\r\ncase of the father of many nations himself, when, after his\r\nwife's death, he married again? And Abraham died when\r\nhe was 175 years old, so that he left his son Isaac seventy-five\r\nyears old, having begotten him when 100 years old.</p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK SIXTEENTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-258"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"41d5dae161cafb2d161aecaed143a0c07b2c8092c9848a29ba675cf0db086af8","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":16,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Gen. xvi. 3","verse":3,"verse_end":3}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45305-Footnote_312_312","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_312_312","source_ebook":45305,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_312_312\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_312_312\"><span class=\"label\">[312]</span></a> Gen. xvi. 3.</p></div>","source_sha256":"7e0ced9e70512f3cf050b53c9d548e36b70d468d875153869f95d8aff5bbb530","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45305/pg45305-images.html#Footnote_312_312","text_sha256":"9bab706cf879d69f9c550514ed9c3d81f55bc7a5e2554584b75adaa1bba1a058","verified":false,"work_id":null}