{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>There is a question raised about all those kinds of beasts\r\nwhich are not domesticated, nor are produced like frogs from\r\nthe earth, but are propagated by male and female parents,\r\nsuch as wolves and animals of that kind; and it is asked how\r\nthey could be found in the islands after the deluge, in which\r\nall the animals not in the ark perished, unless the breed was\r\nrestored from those which were preserved in pairs in the ark.\r\nIt might, indeed, be said that they crossed to the islands by\r\nswimming, but this could only be true of those very near the\r\nmainland; whereas there are some so distant, that we fancy\r\nno animal could swim to them. But if men caught them<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_116\">[Pg 116]</a></span>\r\nand took them across with themselves, and thus propagated\r\nthese breeds in their new abodes, this would not imply an\r\nincredible fondness for the chase. At the same time, it cannot\r\nbe denied that by the intervention of angels they might\r\nbe transferred by God's order or permission. If, however,\r\nthey were produced out of the earth as at their first creation,\r\nwhen God said, \"Let the earth bring forth the living creature,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_245_245\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_245_245\">[245]</a>\r\nthis makes it more evident that all kinds of animals\r\nwere preserved in the ark, not so much for the sake of renewing\r\nthe stock, as of prefiguring the various nations which\r\nwere to be saved in the church; this, I say, is more evident,\r\nif the earth brought forth many animals in islands to which\r\nthey could not cross over.</p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK SIXTEENTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-193"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"7a3f5f8ad3c38c1d6ed800ee201bec3c8bb6e37bf036378fa1600b557d357b11","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":1,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Gen. i. 24","verse":24,"verse_end":24}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45305-Footnote_245_245","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_245_245","source_ebook":45305,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_245_245\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_245_245\"><span class=\"label\">[245]</span></a> Gen. i. 24.</p></div>","source_sha256":"7e0ced9e70512f3cf050b53c9d548e36b70d468d875153869f95d8aff5bbb530","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45305/pg45305-images.html#Footnote_245_245","text_sha256":"ffacfdb9cc349b6ce7bc65a6804c585b31f0aaf311af321697e418bd7796dde6","verified":false,"work_id":null}