{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>For the present I shall put down those predictions about\r\nChrist by the prophet Zephaniah, who prophesied with Jeremiah.\r\n\"Wait ye upon me, saith the Lord, in the day of my\r\nresurrection, in the future; because it is my determination to\r\nassemble the nations, and gather together the kingdoms.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_555_555\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_555_555\">[555]</a>\r\nAnd again he says, \"The Lord will be terrible upon them,\r\nand will exterminate all the gods of the earth; and they shall<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_258\">[Pg 258]</a></span>\r\nworship Him every man from his place, even all the isles of\r\nthe nations.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_556_556\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_556_556\">[556]</a> And a little after he says, \"Then will I turn\r\nto the people a tongue, and to His offspring, that they may\r\ncall upon the name of the Lord, and serve Him under one\r\nyoke. From the borders of the rivers of Ethiopia shall they\r\nbring sacrifices unto me. In that day thou shalt not be confounded\r\nfor all thy curious inventions, which thou hast done\r\nimpiously against me: for then I will take away from thee\r\nthe naughtiness of thy trespass; and thou shalt no more\r\nmagnify thyself above thy holy mountain. And I will leave\r\nin thee a meek and humble people, and they who shall be left\r\nof Israel shall fear the name of the Lord.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_557_557\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_557_557\">[557]</a> These are the\r\nremnant of whom the apostle quotes that which is elsewhere\r\nprophesied: \"Though the number of the children of Israel be\r\nas the sand of the sea, a remnant shall be saved.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_558_558\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_558_558\">[558]</a> These\r\nare the remnant of that nation who have believed in Christ.</p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK EIGHTEENTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-432"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"c757f8ad86ea0a6fd7178acc9e8dccee32f3935f35ded1861e27b0d534231a67","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_556_556","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_556_556","source_ebook":45305,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_556_556\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_556_556\"><span class=\"label\">[556]</span></a> Zeph. ii. 11.</p></div>","source_sha256":"7e0ced9e70512f3cf050b53c9d548e36b70d468d875153869f95d8aff5bbb530","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45305/pg45305-images.html#Footnote_556_556","text_sha256":"50ed04b1e7e70d599f88d28d50aa21240ea4f9a964b98439ee567fcf4e6c7f8e","verified":false,"work_id":null}