{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>After these things a son was born to Abraham, according\r\nto God's promise, of Sarah, and was called Isaac, which means\r\n<i>laughter</i>. For his father had laughed when he was promised\r\nto him, in wondering delight, and his mother, when he was\r\nagain promised by those three men, had laughed, doubting for\r\njoy; yet she was blamed by the angel because that laughter,\r\nalthough it was for joy, yet was not full of faith. Afterwards<span class=\"pagenum\"><a id=\"Page_147\">[Pg 147]</a></span>\r\nshe was confirmed in faith by the same angel. From this,\r\nthen, the boy got his name. For when Isaac was born and\r\ncalled by that name, Sarah showed that her laughter was not\r\nthat of scornful reproach, but that of joyful praise; for she\r\nsaid, \"God hath made me to laugh, so that every one who\r\nhears will laugh with me.\"<a id=\"FNanchor_301_301\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_301_301\">[301]</a> Then in a little while the\r\nbond maid was cast out of the house with her son; and, according\r\nto the apostle, these two women signify the old and new\r\ncovenants,—Sarah representing that of the Jerusalem which is\r\nabove, that is, the city of God.<a id=\"FNanchor_302_302\"></a><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_302_302\">[302]</a></p>","headings":["THE CITY OF GOD.","BOOK SIXTEENTH.","ARGUMENT."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg45305-paragraph-250"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"920a7a5a86887d348c2ecf89f9683d73eb4930351bcbcd4fb107524385e1f691","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":21,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Gen. xxi. 6","verse":6,"verse_end":6}],"headings":[],"id":"pg45305-Footnote_301_301","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_301_301","source_ebook":45305,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a id=\"Footnote_301_301\"></a><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_301_301\"><span class=\"label\">[301]</span></a> Gen. xxi. 6.</p></div>","source_sha256":"7e0ced9e70512f3cf050b53c9d548e36b70d468d875153869f95d8aff5bbb530","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/45305/pg45305-images.html#Footnote_301_301","text_sha256":"bb12244b82381ec988555c27e9274c8ea2ae3f3098d99a80114bc44a961ca225","verified":false,"work_id":null}