{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Having received this oracle of promise, Abraham migrated,\r\nand remained in another place of the same land, that is,\r\nbeside the oak of Mamre, which was Hebron. Then on\r\nthe invasion of Sodom, when five kings carried on war\r\nagainst four, and Lot was taken captive with the conquered\r\nSodomites, Abraham delivered him from the enemy, leading\r\nwith him to battle three hundred and eighteen of his home-born\r\nservants, and won the victory for the kings of Sodom,\r\nbut would take nothing of the spoils when offered by the king<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_135\">[Pg 135]</a></span>\r\nfor whom he had won them. He was then openly blessed by\r\nMelchizedek, who was priest of God Most High, about whom\r\nmany and great things are written in the epistle which is inscribed\r\nto the Hebrews, which most say is by the Apostle\r\nPaul, though some deny this. For then first appeared the\r\nsacrifice which is now offered to God by Christians in the\r\nwhole wide world, and that is fulfilled which long after the\r\nevent was said by the prophet to Christ, who was yet to come\r\nin the flesh, \"Thou art a priest for ever after the order of\r\nMelchizedek,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_271_271\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_271_271\">[271]</a>—that is to say, not after the order of Aaron,\r\nfor that order was to be taken away when the things shone\r\nforth which were intimated beforehand by these shadows.</p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK SIXTEENTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-228"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"4ad245fcca8665d3dff28e2736ffb346b7808ae4f54e7cbd083e6feda9ade588","edition_title":"The City of God, Volume II","edition_translators":["Marcus Dods","George Wilson (Books XVII-XVIII)"],"edition_year":1871,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"PSA","chapter":110,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Ps. cx. 4","verse":4,"verse_end":4}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45305-Footnote_271_271","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_271_271","source_ebook":45305,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_271_271\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_271_271\"><span class=\"label\">[271]</span></a> Ps. cx. 4.</p></div>","source_sha256":"7e0ced9e70512f3cf050b53c9d548e36b70d468d875153869f95d8aff5bbb530","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45305/pg45305-images.html#Footnote_271_271","text_sha256":"f60ae56dcfdb2cd656539dcf226eea9669e3468b06bba36c34d09fd9a8e3e843","verified":false,"work_id":null}