{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>The words, \"And fire came down out of heaven and devoured\r\nthem,\" are not to be understood of the final punishment\r\nwhich shall be inflicted when it is said, \"Depart from\r\nme, ye cursed, into everlasting fire;\"<a id=\"FNanchor_737_737\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_737_737\">[737]</a> for then they shall be\r\ncast into the fire, not fire come down out of heaven upon\r\nthem. In this place \"fire out of heaven\" is well understood\r\nof the firmness of the saints, wherewith they refuse to yield\r\nobedience to those who rage against them. For the firmament\r\nis \"heaven,\" by whose firmness these assailants shall be\r\npained with blazing zeal, for they shall be impotent to draw\r\naway the saints to the party of Antichrist. This is the fire\r\nwhich shall devour them, and this is \"from God;\" for it\r\nis by God's grace the saints become unconquerable, and so\r\ntorment their enemies. For as in a good sense it is said,\r\n\"The zeal of Thine house hath consumed me,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_738_738\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_738_738\">[738]</a> so in a bad\r\nsense it is said, \"Zeal hath possessed the uninstructed people,<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_371\">[Pg 371]</a></span>\r\nand now fire shall consume the enemies.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_739_739\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_739_739\">[739]</a> \"And now,\" that\r\nis to say, not the fire of the last judgment. Or if by this fire\r\ncoming down out of heaven and consuming them, John meant\r\nthat blow wherewith Christ in His coming is to strike those\r\npersecutors of the Church whom He shall then find alive upon\r\nearth, when He shall kill Antichrist with the breath of His\r\nmouth,<a id=\"FNanchor_740_740\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_740_740\">[740]</a> then even this is not the last judgment of the wicked;\r\nbut the last judgment is that which they shall suffer when\r\nthe bodily resurrection has taken place.</p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK TWENTIETH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-594"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"5b06997b0a2e54a5f661d80dc49e5622a5ccba944743da6f72b8aa1cb1de5acb","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":69,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Ps. lxix. 9","verse":9,"verse_end":9}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45305-Footnote_738_738","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_738_738","source_ebook":45305,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_738_738\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_738_738\"><span class=\"label\">[738]</span></a> Ps. lxix. 9.</p></div>","source_sha256":"7e0ced9e70512f3cf050b53c9d548e36b70d468d875153869f95d8aff5bbb530","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45305/pg45305-images.html#Footnote_738_738","text_sha256":"abd2a50f22599a3ee8ae7f9a10e735e90984e156f4b785cdd39b6a11165e721b","verified":false,"work_id":null}