{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>There are many other passages of Scripture bearing on the\r\nlast judgment of God,—so many, indeed, that to cite them all\r\nwould swell this book to an unpardonable size. Suffice it to\r\nhave proved that both Old and New Testament enounce the\r\njudgment. But in the Old it is not so definitely declared as\r\nin the New that the judgment shall be administered by Christ,\r\nthat is, that Christ shall descend from heaven as the Judge;\r\nfor when it is therein stated by the Lord God or His prophet\r\nthat the Lord God shall come, we do not necessarily understand\r\nthis of Christ. For both the Father, and the Son, and\r\nthe Holy Ghost are the Lord God. We must not, however,\r\nleave this without proof. And therefore we must first show\r\nhow Jesus Christ speaks in the prophetical books under the title\r\nof the Lord God, while yet there can be no doubt that it is\r\nJesus Christ who speaks; so that in other passages where this<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_407\">[Pg 407]</a></span>\r\nis not at once apparent, and where nevertheless it is said that\r\nthe Lord God will come to that last judgment, we may understand\r\nthat Jesus Christ is meant. There is a passage in the\r\nprophet Isaiah which illustrates what I mean. For God says\r\nby the prophet, \"Hear me, Jacob and Israel, whom I call. I\r\nam the first, and I am for ever: and my hand has founded\r\nthe earth, and my right hand has established the heaven. I\r\nwill call them, and they shall stand together, and be gathered,\r\nand hear. Who has declared to them these things? In love\r\nof thee I have done thy pleasure upon Babylon, that I might\r\ntake away the seed of the Chaldeans. I have spoken, and I\r\nhave called: I have brought him, and have made his way\r\nprosperous. Come ye near unto me, and hear this. I have\r\nnot spoken in secret from the beginning; when they were\r\nmade, there was I. And now the Lord God and His Spirit\r\nhath sent me.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_836_836\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_836_836\">[836]</a> It was Himself who was speaking as the\r\nLord God; and yet we should not have understood that it\r\nwas Jesus Christ had He not added, \"And now the Lord\r\nGod and His Spirit hath sent me.\" For He said this with\r\nreference to the form of a servant, speaking of a future event\r\nas if it were past, as in the same prophet we read, \"He was\r\nled as a sheep to the slaughter,\"<a id=\"FNanchor_837_837\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_837_837\">[837]</a> not \"He shall be led;\" but\r\nthe past tense is used to express the future. And prophecy\r\nconstantly speaks in this way.</p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK TWENTIETH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-643"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"d48e258e9c1908cebac3bf8f2e5896ae6448c57551de8454f1988524e2c39a76","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":48,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Isa. xlviii. 12-16","verse":12,"verse_end":16}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45305-Footnote_836_836","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_836_836","source_ebook":45305,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_836_836\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_836_836\"><span class=\"label\">[836]</span></a> Isa. xlviii. 12-16.</p></div>","source_sha256":"7e0ced9e70512f3cf050b53c9d548e36b70d468d875153869f95d8aff5bbb530","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45305/pg45305-images.html#Footnote_836_836","text_sha256":"75e3ef67e976d5c9017aeb01e1df79995a9258cef032951785c9bb68ca838edd","verified":false,"work_id":null}