{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>The Lord Jesus Christ Himself says, \"No man can enter\r\ninto a strong man's house, and spoil his goods, except he first\r\nbind the strong man,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_703_703\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_703_703\">[703]</a>—meaning by the strong man the devil,\r\nbecause he had power to take captive the human race; and\r\nmeaning by his goods which he was to take, those who had\r\nbeen held by the devil in divers sins and iniquities, but were\r\nto become believers in Himself. It was then for the binding\r\nof this strong one that the apostle saw in the Apocalypse \"an\r\nangel coming down from heaven, having the key of the abyss,\r\nand a chain in his hand. And he laid hold,\" he says, \"on the\r\ndragon, that old serpent, which is called the devil and Satan,\r\nand bound him a thousand years,\"—that is, bridled and restrained\r\nhis power so that he could not seduce and gain possession\r\nof those who were to be freed. Now the thousand\r\nyears may be understood in two ways, so far as occurs to me:\r\neither because these things happen in the sixth thousand of\r\nyears or sixth millennium (the latter part of which is now passing),\r\nas if during the sixth day, which is to be followed by a\r\nSabbath which has no evening, the endless rest of the saints,\r\nso that, speaking of a part under the name of the whole, he\r\ncalls the last part of the millennium—the part, that is, which\r\nhad yet to expire before the end of the world—a thousand\r\nyears; or he used the thousand years as an equivalent for the\r\nwhole duration of this world, employing the number of perfection\r\nto mark the fulness of time. For a thousand is the\r\ncube of ten. For ten times ten makes a hundred, that is, the\r\nsquare on a plane superficies. But to give this superficies\r\nheight, and make it a cube, the hundred is again multiplied\r\nby ten, which gives a thousand. Besides, if a hundred is<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_358\">[Pg 358]</a></span>\r\nsometimes used for totality, as when the Lord said by way of\r\npromise to him that left all and followed Him, \"He shall receive\r\nin this world an hundredfold;\"<a id=\"FNanchor_704_704\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_704_704\">[704]</a> of which the apostle gives,\r\nas it were, an explanation when he says, \"As having nothing,\r\nyet possessing all things,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_705_705\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_705_705\">[705]</a>—for even of old it had been said,\r\nThe whole world is the wealth of a believer,—with how much\r\ngreater reason is a thousand put for totality since it is the\r\ncube, while the other is only the square? And for the same\r\nreason we cannot better interpret the words of the psalm,\r\n\"He hath been mindful of His covenant for ever, the word\r\nwhich He commanded to a thousand generations,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_706_706\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_706_706\">[706]</a> than by\r\nunderstanding it to mean \"to all generations.\"</p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK TWENTIETH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-577"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"54661a1a3dbaead43b9a87c04b8004cd431824d52ebe47b5bc83cb1126a2b442","edition_title":"The City of God, Volume II","edition_translators":["Marcus Dods","George Wilson (Books XVII-XVIII)"],"edition_year":1871,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"2CO","chapter":6,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"2 Cor. vi. 10","verse":10,"verse_end":10}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45305-Footnote_705_705","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_705_705","source_ebook":45305,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_705_705\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_705_705\"><span class=\"label\">[705]</span></a> 2 Cor. vi. 10.</p></div>","source_sha256":"7e0ced9e70512f3cf050b53c9d548e36b70d468d875153869f95d8aff5bbb530","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45305/pg45305-images.html#Footnote_705_705","text_sha256":"c845e6f40f354a61c8d9f8d6dd42b82b061418edcc847bfd7e7598025c7a52ce","verified":false,"work_id":null}