{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Obadiah, so far as his writings are concerned, the briefest\r\nof all the prophets, speaks against Idumea, that is, the nation\r\nof Esau, that reprobate elder of the twin sons of Isaac and\r\ngrandsons of Abraham. Now if, by that form of speech in\r\nwhich a part is put for the whole, we take Idumea as put\r\nfor the nations, we may understand of Christ what he says\r\namong other things, \"But upon Mount Sion shall be safety,\r\nand there shall be a Holy One.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_529_529\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_529_529\">[529]</a> And a little after, at the\r\nend of the same prophecy, he says, \"And those who are saved\r\nagain shall come up out of Mount Sion, that they may defend\r\nMount Esau, and it shall be a kingdom to the Lord.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_530_530\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_530_530\">[530]</a> It is\r\nquite evident this was fulfilled when those saved again out of\r\nMount Sion—that is, the believers in Christ from Judea, of\r\nwhom the apostles are chiefly to be acknowledged—went up\r\nto defend Mount Esau. How could they defend it except by\r\nmaking safe, through the preaching of the gospel, those who\r\nbelieved that they might be \"delivered from the power of\r\ndarkness and translated into the kingdom of God?\"<a id=\"FNanchor_531_531\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_531_531\">[531]</a> This\r\nhe expressed as an inference, adding, \"And it shall be to the\r\nLord a kingdom.\" For Mount Sion signifies Judea, where\r\nit is predicted there shall be safety, and a Holy One, that is,<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_252\">[Pg 252]</a></span>\r\nChrist Jesus. But Mount Esau is Idumea, which signifies\r\nthe Church of the Gentiles, which, as I have expounded, those\r\nsaved again out of Sion have defended that it should be a\r\nkingdom to the Lord. This was obscure before it took place;\r\nbut what believer does not find it out now that it is done?</p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK EIGHTEENTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-425"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"e488db1856dfd27ccd0e955a7b56195ad69ba15599112f438b8d3a0946d87cd1","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_530_530","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_530_530","source_ebook":45305,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_530_530\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_530_530\"><span class=\"label\">[530]</span></a> Obad. 21.</p></div>","source_sha256":"7e0ced9e70512f3cf050b53c9d548e36b70d468d875153869f95d8aff5bbb530","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45305/pg45305-images.html#Footnote_530_530","text_sha256":"25d5dfc8380cba96a765c2cbdf1a49b6be24858187496c34c85c7e2cd5dfaa86","verified":false,"work_id":null}