{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>\"And to Seth,\" it is said, \"there was born a son, and he\r\ncalled his name Enos: he hoped to call on the name of the\r\nLord God.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_187_187\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_187_187\">[187]</a> Here we have a loud testimony to the truth.\r\nMan, then, the son of the resurrection, lives in hope: he\r\nlives in hope as long as the city of God, which is begotten<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_83\">[Pg 83]</a></span>\r\nby faith in the resurrection, sojourns in this world. For in\r\nthese two men, Abel, signifying \"grief,\" and his brother Seth,\r\nsignifying \"resurrection,\" the death of Christ and His life from\r\nthe dead are prefigured. And by faith in these is begotten\r\nin this world the city of God, that is to say, the man who has\r\nhoped to call on the name of the Lord. \"For by hope,\" says\r\nthe apostle, \"we are saved: but hope that is seen is not\r\nhope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?\r\nBut if we hope for that we see not, then do we with\r\npatience wait for it.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_188_188\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_188_188\">[188]</a> Who can avoid referring this to a\r\nprofound mystery? For did not Abel hope to call upon the\r\nname of the Lord God when his sacrifice is mentioned in\r\nScripture as having been accepted by God? Did not Seth\r\nhimself hope to call on the name of the Lord God, of whom\r\nit was said, \"For God hath appointed me another seed instead\r\nof Abel?\" Why then is this which is found to be\r\ncommon to all the godly specially attributed to Enos, unless\r\nbecause it was fit that in him, who is mentioned as the\r\nfirst-born of the father of those generations which were separated\r\nto the better part of the heavenly city, there should be\r\na type of the man, or society of men, who live not according\r\nto man in contentment with earthly felicity, but according to\r\nGod in hope of everlasting felicity? And it was not said, \"He\r\nhoped in the Lord God,\" nor \"He called on the name of the\r\nLord God,\" but \"He hoped to call on the name of the Lord\r\nGod.\" And what does this \"hoped to call\" mean, unless it\r\nis a prophecy that a people should arise who, according to the\r\nelection of grace, would call on the name of the Lord God?\r\nIt is this which has been said by another prophet, and which\r\nthe apostle interprets of the people who belong to the grace\r\nof God: \"And it shall be that whosoever shall call upon the\r\nname of the Lord shall be saved.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_189_189\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_189_189\">[189]</a> For these two expressions,\r\n\"And he called his name Enos, which means man,\" and\r\n\"He hoped to call on the name of the Lord God,\" are sufficient\r\nproof that man ought not to rest his hopes in himself;\r\nas it is elsewhere written, \"Cursed is the man that trusteth\r\nin man.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_190_190\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_190_190\">[190]</a> Consequently no one ought to trust in himself\r\nthat he shall become a citizen of that other city which is not<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_84\">[Pg 84]</a></span>\r\ndedicated in the name of Cain's son in this present time, that\r\nis to say, in the fleeting course of this mortal world, but in\r\nthe immortality of perpetual blessedness.</p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK FIFTEENTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-142"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"8f39b94fa03b2c7f43ca45001919fd6309d3f5ddb47e3173a3be03f30099f18e","edition_title":"The City of God, Volume II","edition_translators":["Marcus Dods","George Wilson (Books XVII-XVIII)"],"edition_year":1871,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"JER","chapter":17,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Jer. xvii. 5","verse":5,"verse_end":5}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45305-Footnote_190_190","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. 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