{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>In the preceding book we said, that in the promise of God\r\nto Abraham two things were promised from the beginning,\r\nthe one, namely, that his seed should possess the land of\r\nCanaan, which was intimated when it was said, \"Go into a\r\nland that I will show thee, and I will make of thee a great\r\nnation;\"<a id=\"FNanchor_344_344\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_344_344\">[344]</a> but the other far more excellent, concerning not\r\nthe carnal but the spiritual seed, by which he is the father,\r\nnot of the one nation of Israel, but of all nations who follow\r\nthe footsteps of his faith, which began to be promised in these\r\nwords, \"And in thee shall all families of the earth be blessed.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_345_345\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_345_345\">[345]</a>\r\nAnd thereafter we showed by yet many other proofs that these\r\ntwo things were promised. Therefore the seed of Abraham,\r\nthat is, the people of Israel according to the flesh, already was<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_167\">[Pg 167]</a></span>\r\nin the land of promise; and there, not only by holding and\r\npossessing the cities of the enemies, but also by having kings,\r\nhad already begun to reign, the promises of God concerning\r\nthat people being already in great part fulfilled: not only\r\nthose that were made to those three fathers, Abraham, Isaac,\r\nand Jacob, and whatever others were made in their times, but\r\nthose also that were made through Moses himself, by whom\r\nthe same people was set free from servitude in Egypt, and by\r\nwhom all bygone things were revealed in his times, when he\r\nled the people through the wilderness. But neither by the\r\nillustrious leader Jesus the son of Nun, who led that people\r\ninto the land of promise, and, after driving out the nations,\r\ndivided it among the twelve tribes according to God's command,\r\nand died; nor after him, in the whole time of the\r\njudges, was the promise of God concerning the land of Canaan\r\nfulfilled, that it should extend from some river of Egypt even\r\nto the great river Euphrates; nor yet was it still prophesied as\r\nto come, but its fulfilment was expected. And it was fulfilled\r\nthrough David, and Solomon his son, whose kingdom was extended\r\nover the whole promised space; for they subdued all\r\nthose nations, and made them tributary. And thus, under\r\nthose kings, the seed of Abraham was established in the land\r\nof promise according to the flesh, that is, in the land of Canaan,\r\nso that nothing yet remained to the complete fulfilment of\r\nthat earthly promise of God, except that, so far as pertains to\r\ntemporal prosperity, the Hebrew nation should remain in the\r\nsame land by the succession of posterity in an unshaken state\r\neven to the end of this mortal age, if it obeyed the laws of the\r\nLord its God. But since God knew it would not do this, He\r\nused His temporal punishments also for training His few\r\nfaithful ones in it, and for giving needful warning to those\r\nwho should afterwards be in all nations, in whom the other\r\npromise, revealed in the New Testament, was about to be\r\nfulfilled through the incarnation of Christ.</p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK SEVENTEENTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-285"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"3dd49688877f8f784c37a3cebc9d6a209d23e083dc2e1691838744990a8b2ce1","edition_title":"The City of God, Volume II","edition_translators":["Marcus Dods","George Wilson (Books XVII-XVIII)"],"edition_year":1871,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"GEN","chapter":12,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Gen. xii. 1","verse":1,"verse_end":1}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45305-Footnote_344_344","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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