{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Some one will say, If the writer of this history intended,\r\nin enumerating the generations from Adam through his son\r\nSeth, to descend through them to Noah, in whose time the<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_85\">[Pg 85]</a></span>\r\ndeluge occurred, and from him again to trace the connected\r\ngenerations down to Abraham, with whom Matthew begins\r\nthe pedigree of Christ the eternal King of the city of God,\r\nwhat did he intend by enumerating the generations from Cain,\r\nand to what terminus did he mean to trace them? We\r\nreply, To the deluge, by which the whole stock of the earthly\r\ncity was destroyed, but repaired by the sons of Noah. For\r\nthe earthly city and community of men who live after the\r\nflesh will never fail until the end of this world, of which our\r\nLord says, \"The children of this world generate, and are generated.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_193_193\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_193_193\">[193]</a>\r\nBut the city of God, which sojourns in this world,\r\nis conducted by regeneration to the world to come, of which\r\nthe children neither generate nor are generated. In this\r\nworld generation is common to both cities; though even now\r\nthe city of God has many thousand citizens who abstain from\r\nthe act of generation; yet the other city also has some citizens\r\nwho imitate these, though erroneously. For to that city belong\r\nalso those who have erred from the faith, and introduced\r\ndivers heresies; for they live according to man, not according\r\nto God. And the Indian gymnosophists, who are said to\r\nphilosophize in the solitudes of India in a state of nudity, are\r\nits citizens; and they abstain from marriage. For continence\r\nis not a good thing, except when it is practised in the faith of\r\nthe highest good, that is, God. Yet no one is found to have\r\npractised it before the deluge; for indeed even Enoch himself,\r\nthe seventh from Adam, who is said to have been translated\r\nwithout dying, begat sons and daughters before he was translated,\r\nand among these was Methuselah, by whom the succession\r\nof the recorded generations is maintained.</p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK FIFTEENTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-146"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"bf40441b00426dcfc8f4a2290be97f76cadb6bf03b8946c40f8197fb918f62c4","edition_title":"The City of God, Volume II","edition_translators":["Marcus Dods","George Wilson (Books XVII-XVIII)"],"edition_year":1871,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"LUK","chapter":20,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Luke xx. 34","verse":34,"verse_end":34}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45305-Footnote_193_193","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_193_193","source_ebook":45305,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_193_193\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_193_193\"><span class=\"label\">[193]</span></a> Luke xx. 34.</p></div>","source_sha256":"7e0ced9e70512f3cf050b53c9d548e36b70d468d875153869f95d8aff5bbb530","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45305/pg45305-images.html#Footnote_193_193","text_sha256":"9a427b512dcc8b1a7781fbad328f2bcbf513c8adf35081904ba90f1243d5f56a","verified":false,"work_id":null}