{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>He who thinks this grand promise was fulfilled in Solomon\r\ngreatly errs; for he attends to the saying, \"He shall build\r\nme an house,\" but he does not attend to the saying, \"His\r\nhouse shall be faithful, and his kingdom for evermore before\r\nme.\" Let him therefore attend and behold the house of\r\nSolomon full of strange women worshipping false gods, and\r\nthe king himself, aforetime wise, seduced by them, and cast\r\ndown into the same idolatry: and let him not dare to think\r\nthat God either promised this falsely, or was unable to foreknow\r\nthat Solomon and his house would become what they\r\ndid. But we ought not to be in doubt here, or to see the\r\nfulfilment of these things save in Christ our Lord, who was\r\nmade of the seed of David according to the flesh,<a id=\"FNanchor_406_406\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_406_406\">[406]</a> lest we\r\nshould vainly and uselessly look for some other here, like the\r\ncarnal Jews. For even they understand this much, that the\r\nson whom they read of in that place as promised to David\r\nwas not Solomon; so that, with wonderful blindness to Him\r\nwho was promised and is now declared with so great manifestation,\r\nthey say they hope for another. Indeed, even in Solomon\r\nthere appeared some image of the future event, in that\r\nhe built the temple, and had peace according to his name (for\r\nSolomon means \"pacific\"), and in the beginning of his reign\r\nwas wonderfully praiseworthy; but while, as a shadow of Him\r\nthat should come, he foreshowed Christ our Lord, he did not\r\nalso in his own person resemble Him. Whence some things\r\nconcerning him are so written as if they were prophesied\r\nof himself, while the Holy Scripture, prophesying even by\r\nevents, somehow delineates in him the figure of things to\r\ncome. For, besides the books of divine history, in which his\r\nreign is narrated, the 72d Psalm also is inscribed in the title\r\nwith his name, in which so many things are said which cannot\r\nat all apply to him, but which apply to the Lord Christ\r\nwith such evident fitness as makes it quite apparent that in\r\nthe one the figure is in some way shadowed forth, but in the\r\nother the truth itself is presented. For it is known within\r\nwhat bounds the kingdom of Solomon was enclosed; and yet<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_191\">[Pg 191]</a></span>\r\nin that psalm, not to speak of other things, we read, \"He\r\nshall have dominion from sea even to sea, and from the river\r\nto the ends of the earth,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_407_407\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_407_407\">[407]</a> which we see fulfilled in Christ.\r\nTruly he took the beginning of His reigning from the river\r\nwhere John baptized; for, when pointed out by him, He began\r\nto be acknowledged by the disciples, who called Him not only\r\nMaster, but also Lord.</p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK SEVENTEENTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-314"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"069435de1b093e70476566c9df51ce88bc33c669e2c739eea8e82e93c401cd43","edition_title":"The City of God, Volume II","edition_translators":["Marcus Dods","George Wilson (Books XVII-XVIII)"],"edition_year":1871,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"ROM","chapter":1,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Rom. i. 3","verse":3,"verse_end":3}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45305-Footnote_406_406","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_406_406","source_ebook":45305,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_406_406\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_406_406\"><span class=\"label\">[406]</span></a> Rom. i. 3.</p></div>","source_sha256":"7e0ced9e70512f3cf050b53c9d548e36b70d468d875153869f95d8aff5bbb530","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45305/pg45305-images.html#Footnote_406_406","text_sha256":"bbbce0a8f81c64239278750010429424a1827d91399828f2de0a4d160c1dbec5","verified":false,"work_id":null}