Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">How blessed and wonderful, beloved, are the gifts of\r\nGod! Life in immortality, splendour in righteousness,\r\ntruth in perfect confidence,<a id=\"r143\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f143\"><sup>[143]</sup></a> faith in assurance, self-control\r\nin holiness! And all these fall under the cognizance of our\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_32\">32</span>understandings [now]; what then shall those things be\r\nwhich are prepared for such as wait for Him? The Creator\r\nand Father of all worlds,<a id=\"r144\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f144\"><sup>[144]</sup></a> the Most Holy, alone knows\r\ntheir amount and their beauty. Let us therefore earnestly\r\nstrive to be found in the number of those that wait for Him,\r\nin order that we may share in His promised gifts. But how,\r\nbeloved, shall this be done? If our understanding be fixed\r\nby faith towards God; if we earnestly seek the things which\r\nare pleasing and acceptable to Him; if we do the things\r\nwhich are in harmony with His blameless will; and if we\r\nfollow the way of truth, casting away from us all unrighteousness\r\nand iniquity, along with all covetousness, strife, evil\r\npractices, deceit, whispering, and evil-speaking, all hatred of\r\nGod, pride and haughtiness, vainglory and ambition.<a id=\"r145\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f145\"><sup>[145]</sup></a> For\r\nthey that do such things are hateful to God; and not only\r\nthey that do them, but also those that take pleasure in them\r\nthat do them.<a id=\"r146\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f146\"><sup>[146]</sup></a> For the Scripture saith, “But to the sinner\r\nGod said, Wherefore dost thou declare my statutes, and take\r\nmy covenant into thy mouth, seeing thou hatest instruction,\r\nand castest my words behind thee? When thou sawest\r\na thief, thou consentedst with<a id=\"r147\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f147\"><sup>[147]</sup></a> him, and didst make thy portion\r\nwith adulterers. Thy mouth has abounded with wickedness,\r\nand thy tongue contrived<a id=\"r148\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f148\"><sup>[148]</sup></a> deceit. Thou sittest, and\r\nspeakest against thy brother; thou slanderest<a id=\"r149\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f149\"><sup>[149]</sup></a> thine own\r\nmother’s son. These things thou hast done, and I kept\r\nsilence; thou thoughtest, wicked one, that I should be like\r\nto thyself. But I will reprove thee, and set thyself before\r\nthee. Consider now these things, ye that forget God, lest\r\nHe tear you in pieces, like a lion, and there be none to\r\ndeliver. The sacrifice of praise will glorify me, and a way\r\nis there by which I will show him the salvation of God.”<a id=\"r150\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f150\"><sup>[150]</sup></a></p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE FIRST EPISTLE OF CLEMENT.","THE FIRST EPISTLE OF CLEMENT TO THE CORINTHIANS.","Chap. xxxv.—Immense is this reward. How shall we obtain it?"],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-79"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"6a49a8865882ffe036d8c603ee991c0f9303bf9ccbafad759b6ed28306607ecc","edition_title":"The writings of the Apostolic Fathers","edition_translators":["Alexander Roberts","James Donaldson","Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1870,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg77576-f145","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":"Project Gutenberg metadata: Public domain in the USA. Historical 1870 English edition; electronic transcription subject to Project Gutenberg reuse terms.","source_anchor":"f145","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f145\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r145\">145</a>.  </span>The reading is doubtful: some have ἀφιλοξενίαν, “want of a hospitable\r\nspirit.”</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f145","text_sha256":"d53f841b56823706d684227d4bd464723b0d85d5ec7cc0b662c683fb9d05bde4","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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