{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>When Jacob was going to Mesopotamia, he received in a\r\ndream an oracle, of which it is thus written: \"And Jacob went\r\nout from the well of the oath,<a id=\"FNanchor_325_325\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_325_325\">[325]</a> and went to Haran. And he came\r\nto a place, and slept there, for the sun was set; and he took of\r\nthe stones of the place, and put them at his head, and slept in\r\nthat place, and dreamed. And behold a ladder set up on the\r\nearth, and the top of it reached to heaven; and the angels of\r\nGod ascended and descended by it. And the Lord stood\r\nabove it, and said, I am the God of Abraham thy father, and\r\nthe God of Isaac; fear not: the land whereon thou sleepest,\r\nto thee will I give it, and to thy seed; and thy seed shall be\r\nas the dust of the earth; and it shall be spread abroad to the\r\nsea, and to Africa, and to the north, and to the east: and all\r\nthe tribes of the earth shall be blessed in thee and in thy\r\nseed. And, behold, I am with thee, to keep thee in all thy\r\nway wherever thou goest, and I will bring thee back into\r\nthis land; for I will not leave thee, until I have done all\r\nwhich I have spoken to thee of. And Jacob awoke out of\r\nhis sleep, and said, Surely the Lord is in this place, and I\r\nknew it not. And he was afraid, and said, How dreadful is\r\nthis place! this is none other but the house of God, and this\r\nis the gate of heaven. And Jacob arose, and took the stone\r\nthat he had put under his head there, and set it up for a\r\nmemorial, and poured oil upon the top of it. And Jacob\r\ncalled the name of that place the house of God.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_326_326\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_326_326\">[326]</a> This is\r\nprophetic. For Jacob did not pour oil on the stone in an\r\nidolatrous way, as if making it a god; neither did he adore\r\nthat stone, or sacrifice to it. But since the name of Christ\r\ncomes from the chrism or anointing, something pertaining to\r\nthe great mystery was certainly represented in this. And\r\nthe Saviour Himself is understood to bring this latter to\r\nremembrance in the gospel, when He says of Nathanael,\r\n\"Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom is no guile!\"<a id=\"FNanchor_327_327\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_327_327\">[327]</a> because\r\nIsrael who saw this vision is no other than Jacob. And in\r\nthe same place He says, \"Verily, verily, I say unto you, Ye<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_157\">[Pg 157]</a></span>\r\nshall see heaven open, and the angels of God ascending and\r\ndescending upon the Son of man.\"</p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK SIXTEENTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-267"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"e7d1eaac1183affd6f6a56dbf2a13da4a592d4fc48500a7597c0e8f21931cccb","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":28,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Gen. xxviii. 10-19","verse":10,"verse_end":19}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45305-Footnote_326_326","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_326_326","source_ebook":45305,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_326_326\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_326_326\"><span class=\"label\">[326]</span></a> Gen. xxviii. 10-19.</p></div>","source_sha256":"7e0ced9e70512f3cf050b53c9d548e36b70d468d875153869f95d8aff5bbb530","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45305/pg45305-images.html#Footnote_326_326","text_sha256":"c30171f5c9de82cec27873eea3c5de97d42196b2f2cce12187fbb4558535e642","verified":false,"work_id":null}