{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>But Jeroboam king of Israel, with perverse mind, not believing\r\nin God, whom he had proved true in promising and\r\ngiving him the kingdom, was afraid lest, by coming to the\r\ntemple of God which was in Jerusalem, where, according to\r\nthe divine law, that whole nation was to come in order to\r\nsacrifice, the people should be seduced from him, and return\r\nto David's line as the seed royal; and set up idolatry in\r\nhis kingdom, and with horrible impiety beguiled the people,\r\nensnaring them to the worship of idols with himself. Yet\r\nGod did not altogether cease to reprove by the prophets, not\r\nonly that king, but also his successors and imitators in his\r\nimpiety, and the people too. For there the great and illustrious\r\nprophets Elijah and Elisha his disciple arose, who also\r\ndid many wonderful works. Even there, when Elijah said,\r\n\"O Lord, they have slain Thy prophets, they have digged\r\ndown Thine altars; and I am left alone, and they seek my\r\nlife,\" it was answered that seven thousand men were there\r\nwho had not bowed the knee to Baal.<a id=\"FNanchor_494_494\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_494_494\">[494]</a></p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK SEVENTEENTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-346"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"dcd4eccb293b9a5f681f8b30ef61365f55cb9129a95fb39d9253907af4e6a2af","edition_title":"The City of God, Volume II","edition_translators":["Marcus Dods","George Wilson (Books XVII-XVIII)"],"edition_year":1871,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg45305-Footnote_494_494","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_494_494","source_ebook":45305,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_494_494\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_494_494\"><span class=\"label\">[494]</span></a> 1 Kings xix. 10, 14, 15.</p></div>","source_sha256":"7e0ced9e70512f3cf050b53c9d548e36b70d468d875153869f95d8aff5bbb530","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45305/pg45305-images.html#Footnote_494_494","text_sha256":"c187bf737aea86f2271d385c23679f73f999a55c856413aaa72df64b051c07c0","verified":false,"work_id":null}