Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Again, when He speaks in His own person, He confesses Himself to be\r\nthe Instructor: “I am the Lord thy God, who brought thee out of the\r\nland of Egypt.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_263\" id=\"FNanchor_263\">[263]</a> Who, then, has the power of leading in and out? Is\r\nit not the Instructor? This was He who appeared to Abraham, and said\r\nto him, “I am thy God, be accepted before me;”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_264\" id=\"FNanchor_264\">[264]</a> and in a way most\r\nbefitting an instructor, forms him into a faithful child, saying, “And\r\nbe blameless; and I will make my covenant between me and thee, and thy\r\nseed.” There is the communication of the Instructor’s friendship. And\r\nHe most manifestly appears as Jacob’s instructor. He says accordingly\r\nto him, “Lo, I am with thee, to keep thee in all the way in which thou\r\nshalt go; and I will bring thee back into this land: for I will not\r\nleave thee till I do what I have told thee.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_265\" id=\"FNanchor_265\">[265]</a> He is said, too, to\r\nhave wrestled with Him. “And Jacob was left alone, and there wrestled\r\nwith him a man (the Instructor) till the morning.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_266\" id=\"FNanchor_266\">[266]</a> This was the\r\nman who led, and brought, and wrestled with, and anointed the athlete\r\nJacob against evil.<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_267\" id=\"FNanchor_267\">[267]</a> Now that the Word was at once Jacob’s trainer\r\nand the Instructor of humanity [appears from this]—“He asked,” it is\r\nsaid, “His name, and said to him, Tell me what is thy name.” And he\r\nsaid, “Why is it that thou askest my name?” For He reserved the new\r\nname for the new people—the babe; and was as yet unnamed, the Lord God\r\nnot having yet become<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_152\">[152]</span> man. Yet Jacob called the name of the place,\r\n“Face of God.” “For I have seen,” he says, “God face to face; and my\r\nlife is preserved.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_268\" id=\"FNanchor_268\">[268]</a> The face of God is the Word by whom God is\r\nmanifested and made known. Then also was he named Israel, because he\r\nsaw God the Lord. It was God, the Word, the Instructor, who said to him\r\nagain afterwards, “Fear not to go down into Egypt.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_269\" id=\"FNanchor_269\">[269]</a> See how the\r\nInstructor follows the righteous man, and how He anoints the athlete,\r\nteaching him to trip up his antagonist.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","THE INSTRUCTOR.","BOOK I.","CHAPTER VII. WHO THE INSTRUCTOR IS, AND RESPECTING HIS INSTRUCTION."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_267","paragraph_id":"pg71937-paragraph-277"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"3ae4c05af06bdded252ea4b1d7828d0b658caa8229ce02386e1777cd6b1dd1cb","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1867,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg71937-Footnote_267","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. Existing 1867 English translation; translator died 1875. Electronic transcription subject to Project Gutenberg reuse terms.","source_anchor":"Footnote_267","source_ebook":71937,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_267\" id=\"Footnote_267\">[267]</a> Or, “against the evil one.”</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"8e5c5bc39922dbad2626ac7651c2eb2e3d94cdcbd721f781e9792143ebb1cd03","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/71937/pg71937-images.html#Footnote_267","text_sha256":"ae8dcef6e6034898ebb1c83fe8557c77925473417df76ce38b9031671a477f73","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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