{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>In like manner the Lord, speaking by the same prophet,\r\nsays, \"And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will seek\r\nto destroy all the nations that come against Jerusalem. And I\r\nwill pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants\r\nof Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and mercy; and they shall\r\nlook upon me because they have insulted me, and they shall\r\nmourn for Him as for one very dear, and shall be in bitterness\r\nas for an only-begotten.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_845_845\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_845_845\">[845]</a> To whom but to God does\r\nit belong to destroy all the nations that are hostile to the\r\nholy city Jerusalem, which \"come against it,\" that is, are\r\nopposed to it, or, as some translate, \"come upon it,\" as if\r\nputting it down under them; or to pour out upon the house\r\nof David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem the spirit of grace\r\nand mercy? This belongs doubtless to God, and it is to God\r\nthe prophet ascribes the words; and yet Christ shows that\r\nHe is the God who does these so great and divine things,\r\nwhen He goes on to say, \"And they shall look upon me because\r\nthey have insulted me, and they shall mourn for Him\r\nas if for one very dear (or beloved), and shall be in bitterness\r\nfor Him as for an only-begotten.\" For in that day the Jews—those<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_409\">[Pg 409]</a></span>\r\nof them, at least, who shall receive the spirit of grace and\r\nmercy—when they see Him coming in His majesty, and recognise\r\nthat it is He whom they, in the person of their parents,\r\ninsulted when He came before in His humiliation, shall repent\r\nof insulting Him in His passion: and their parents themselves,\r\nwho were the perpetrators of this huge impiety, shall\r\nsee Him when they rise; but this will be only for their\r\npunishment, and not for their correction. It is not of them\r\nwe are to understand the words, \"And I will pour upon the\r\nhouse of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the\r\nspirit of grace and mercy, and they shall look upon me because\r\nthey have insulted me;\" but we are to understand the\r\nwords of their descendants, who shall at that time believe\r\nthrough Elias. But as we say to the Jews, You killed Christ,\r\nalthough it was their parents who did so, so these persons\r\nshall grieve that they in some sort did what their progenitors\r\ndid. Although, therefore, those that receive the spirit of\r\nmercy and grace, and believe, shall not be condemned with\r\ntheir impious parents, yet they shall mourn as if they themselves\r\nhad done what their parents did. Their grief shall\r\narise not so much from guilt as from pious affection. Certainly\r\nthe words which the Septuagint have translated, \"They\r\nshall look upon me because they insulted me,\" stand in the\r\nHebrew, \"They shall look upon me whom they pierced.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_846_846\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_846_846\">[846]</a>\r\nAnd by this word the crucifixion of Christ is certainly more\r\nplainly indicated. But the Septuagint translators preferred\r\nto allude to the insult which was involved in His whole\r\npassion. For in point of fact they insulted Him both when\r\nHe was arrested and when He was bound, when He was\r\njudged, when He was mocked by the robe they put on Him\r\nand the homage they did on bended knee, when He was\r\ncrowned with thorns and struck with a rod on the head, when\r\nHe bore His cross, and when at last He hung upon the tree.\r\nAnd therefore we recognise more fully the Lord's passion\r\nwhen we do not confine ourselves to one interpretation, but\r\ncombine both, and read both \"insulted\" and \"pierced.\"</p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK TWENTIETH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-645"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"457cb979923c99867cc64fb0c69976c718995718009921268905298c0241387b","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_846_846","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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