Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">Such examples, therefore, brethren, it is right that we\r\nshould follow;<a id=\"r199\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f199\"><sup>[199]</sup></a> since it is written, “Cleave to the holy, for\r\nthose that cleave to them shall [themselves] be made holy.”<a id=\"r200\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f200\"><sup>[200]</sup></a>\r\nAnd again, in another place, [the Scripture] saith, “With a\r\nharmless man thou shalt prove<a id=\"r201\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f201\"><sup>[201]</sup></a> thyself harmless, and with\r\nan elect man thou shalt be elect, and with a perverse man\r\nthou shalt show<a id=\"r202\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f202\"><sup>[202]</sup></a> thyself perverse.”<a id=\"r203\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f203\"><sup>[203]</sup></a> Let us cleave, therefore,\r\nto the innocent and righteous, since these are the elect of\r\nGod. Why are there strifes, and tumults, and divisions, and\r\nschisms, and wars<a id=\"r204\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f204\"><sup>[204]</sup></a> among you? Have we not [all] one God\r\nand one Christ? Is there not one Spirit of grace poured out\r\nupon us? And have we not one calling in Christ?<a id=\"r205\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f205\"><sup>[205]</sup></a> Why\r\ndo we divide and tear in pieces the members of Christ, and\r\nraise up strife against our own body, and have reached such\r\na height of madness as to forget that “we are members one\r\nof another?”<a id=\"r206\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f206\"><sup>[206]</sup></a> Remember the words of our Lord Jesus\r\nChrist, how<a id=\"r207\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f207\"><sup>[207]</sup></a> He said, “Woe to that man [by whom<a id=\"r208\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f208\"><sup>[208]</sup></a> offences\r\ncome]! It were better for him that he had never been born,\r\nthan that he should cast a stumbling-block before one of my\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_41\">41</span>elect. Yea, it were better for him that a millstone should\r\nbe hung about [his neck], and he should be sunk in the\r\ndepths of the sea, than that he should cast a stumbling-block\r\nbefore one of my little ones.”<a id=\"r209\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f209\"><sup>[209]</sup></a> Your schism has subverted\r\n[the faith of] many, has discouraged many, has given rise to\r\ndoubt in many, and has caused grief to us all. And still\r\nyour sedition continueth.</p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE FIRST EPISTLE OF CLEMENT.","THE FIRST EPISTLE OF CLEMENT TO THE CORINTHIANS.","Chap. xlvi.—Let us cleave to the righteous: your strife is pernicious."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-90"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"ed0d2161e037fe8b8f1acbd03c4a52e8b0ebd92751e64ad1501841959234b3c2","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-f200","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":"f200","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f200\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r200\">200</a>.  </span>Not found in Scripture.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f200","text_sha256":"abec5077de4fd3de8c76f9ce048a352d7b9fcc483d9a0e9e9deeddd91634cbdd","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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