{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>The prophet Isaiah says, \"The dead shall rise again, and\r\nall who were in the graves shall rise again; and all who are\r\nin the earth shall rejoice: for the dew which is from Thee is\r\ntheir health, and the earth of the wicked shall fall.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_772_772\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_772_772\">[772]</a> All\r\nthe former part of this passage relates to the resurrection of\r\nthe blessed; but the words, \"the earth of the wicked shall\r\nfall,\" is rightly understood as meaning that the bodies of the\r\nwicked shall fall into the ruin of damnation. And if we\r\nwould more exactly and carefully scrutinize the words which\r\nrefer to the resurrection of the good, we may refer to the first\r\nresurrection the words, \"the dead shall rise again,\" and to\r\nthe second the following words, \"and all who were in the\r\ngraves shall rise again.\" And if we ask what relates to those\r\nsaints whom the Lord at His coming shall find alive upon\r\nearth, the following clause may suitably be referred to them:\r\n\"All who are in the earth shall rejoice: for the dew which is\r\nfrom Thee is their health.\" By \"health\" in this place it is\r\nbest to understand immortality. For that is the most perfect\r\nhealth which is not repaired by nourishment as by a daily\r\nremedy. In like manner the same prophet, affording hope to\r\nthe good and terrifying the wicked regarding the day of judgment,\r\nsays, \"Thus saith the Lord, Behold, I will flow down\r\nupon them as a river of peace, and upon the glory of the\r\nGentiles as a rushing torrent: their sons shall be carried on\r\nthe shoulders, and shall be comforted on the knees. As one\r\nwhom his mother comforteth, so shall I comfort you; and ye\r\nshall be comforted in Jerusalem. And ye shall see, and your\r\nheart shall rejoice, and your bones shall rise up like a herb;\r\nand the hand of the Lord shall be known by His worshippers,\r\nand He shall threaten the contumacious. For, behold, the\r\nLord shall come as a fire, and as a whirlwind His chariots, to\r\nexecute vengeance with indignation, and wasting with a flame\r\nof fire. For with fire of the Lord shall all the earth be\r\njudged, and all flesh with His sword: many shall be wounded\r\nby the Lord.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_773_773\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_773_773\">[773]</a> In His promise to the good he says that He\r\nwill flow down as a river of peace, that is to say, in the<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_388\">[Pg 388]</a></span>\r\ngreatest possible abundance of peace. With this peace we\r\nshall in the end be refreshed; but of this we have spoken\r\nabundantly in the preceding book. It is this river in which\r\nhe says He shall flow down upon those to whom He promises\r\nso great happiness, that we may understand that in the\r\nregion of that felicity, which is in heaven, all things are\r\nsatisfied from this river. But because there shall thence flow,\r\neven upon earthly bodies, the peace of incorruption and immortality,\r\ntherefore he says that He shall flow down as this\r\nriver, that He may as it were pour Himself from things above\r\nto things beneath, and make men the equals of the angels.\r\nBy \"Jerusalem,\" too, we should understand not that which\r\nserves with her children, but that which, according to the\r\napostle, is our free mother, eternal in the heavens.<a id=\"FNanchor_774_774\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_774_774\">[774]</a> In her\r\nwe shall be comforted as we pass toilworn from earth's cares\r\nand calamities, and be taken up as her children on her knees\r\nand shoulders. Inexperienced and new to such blandishments,\r\nwe shall be received into unwonted bliss. There we\r\nshall see, and our heart shall rejoice. He does not say what\r\nwe shall see; but what but God, that the promise in the\r\nGospel may be fulfilled in us, \"Blessed are the pure in heart,\r\nfor they shall see God?\"<a id=\"FNanchor_775_775\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_775_775\">[775]</a> What shall we see but all those\r\nthings which now we see not, but believe in, and of which\r\nthe idea we form, according to our feeble capacity, is incomparably\r\nless than the reality? \"And ye shall see,\" he says,\r\n\"and your heart shall rejoice.\" Here ye believe, there ye\r\nshall see.</p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK TWENTIETH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-617"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"20d440dfd86c1d40538eb14710f59978b1af1d7292e728541602c0d237d64c8c","edition_title":"The City of God, Volume II","edition_translators":["Marcus Dods","George Wilson (Books XVII-XVIII)"],"edition_year":1871,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"ISA","chapter":26,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Isa. xxvi. 19","verse":19,"verse_end":19}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45305-Footnote_772_772","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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