Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>It is He also who teaches Moses to act as instructor. For the Lord\r\nsays, “If any one sin before me, him will I blot out of my book; but\r\nnow, go and lead this people into the place which I told thee.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_270\" id=\"FNanchor_270\">[270]</a>\r\nHere He is the teacher of the art of instruction. For it was really\r\nthe Lord that was the instructor of the ancient people by Moses; but\r\nHe is the instructor of the new people by Himself, face to face.\r\n“For behold,” He says to Moses, “my angel shall go before thee,”\r\nrepresenting the evangelical and commanding power of the Word, but\r\nguarding the Lord’s prerogative. “In the day on which I will visit\r\nthem,”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_271\" id=\"FNanchor_271\">[271]</a> He says, “I will bring their sins on them; that is, on the\r\nday on which I will sit as judge I will render the recompense of their\r\nsins.” For the same who is Instructor is judge, and judges those who\r\ndisobey Him; and the loving Word will not pass over their transgression\r\nin silence. He reproves, that they may repent. For “the Lord willeth\r\nthe repentance of the sinner rather than his death.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_272\" id=\"FNanchor_272\">[272]</a> And let us as\r\nbabes, hearing of the sins of others, keep from similar transgressions,\r\nthrough dread of the threatening, that we may not have to undergo like\r\nsufferings. What, then, was the sin which they committed? “For in their\r\nwrath they slew men, and in their impetuosity they hamstrung bulls.\r\nCursed be their anger.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_273\" id=\"FNanchor_273\">[273]</a> Who, then, would train us more lovingly\r\nthan He? Formerly the older people had an old covenant, and the law\r\ndisciplined the people with fear, and the Word was an angel; but to\r\nthe fresh and new people has also been given a new covenant, and the<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_153\">[153]</span>\r\nWord has appeared, and fear is turned to love, and that mystic angel is\r\nborn—Jesus. For this same Instructor said then, “Thou shalt fear the\r\nLord God;”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_274\" id=\"FNanchor_274\">[274]</a> but to us He has addressed the exhortation, “Thou shalt\r\nlove the Lord thy God.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_275\" id=\"FNanchor_275\">[275]</a> Wherefore also this is enjoined on us:\r\n“Cease from your own works, from your old sins;” “Learn to do well;”\r\n“Depart from evil, and do good;” “Thou hast loved righteousness, and\r\nhated iniquity.” This is my new covenant written in the old letter. The\r\nnewness of the word must not, then, be made ground of reproach. But the\r\nLord hath also said in Jeremiah: “Say not that I am a youth: before I\r\nformed thee in the belly I knew thee, and before I brought thee out of\r\nthe womb I sanctified thee.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_276\" id=\"FNanchor_276\">[276]</a> Such allusions prophecy can make to\r\nus, destined in the eye of God to faith before the foundation of the\r\nworld; but now babes, through the recent fulfilment of the will of God,\r\naccording to which we are born now to calling and salvation. Wherefore\r\nalso He adds, “I have set thee for a prophet to the nations,”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_277\" id=\"FNanchor_277\">[277]</a>\r\nsaying that he must prophesy, so that the appellation of “youth” should\r\nnot become a reproach to these who are called babes.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","THE INSTRUCTOR.","BOOK I.","CHAPTER VII. 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