Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">Foolish and inconsiderate men, who have neither wisdom<a id=\"r168\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f168\"><sup>[168]</sup></a>\r\nnor instruction, mock and deride us, being eager to exalt\r\nthemselves in their own conceits. For what can a mortal\r\nman do? or what strength is there in one made out of the\r\ndust? For it is written, “There was no shape before mine\r\neyes, only I heard a sound,<a id=\"r169\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f169\"><sup>[169]</sup></a> and a voice [saying], What then?\r\nShall a man be pure before the Lord? or shall such an one\r\nbe [counted] blameless in his deeds, seeing He does not confide\r\nin His servants, and has charged<a id=\"r170\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f170\"><sup>[170]</sup></a> even His angels with\r\nperversity? The heaven is not clean in His sight: how much\r\nless they that dwell in houses of clay, of which also we ourselves\r\nwere made! He smote them as a moth; and from\r\nmorning even until evening they endure not. Because they\r\ncould furnish no assistance to themselves, they perished. He\r\nbreathed upon them, and they died, because they had no\r\nwisdom. But call now, if any one will answer thee, or if\r\nthou wilt look to any of the holy angels; for wrath destroys\r\nthe foolish man, and envy killeth him that is in error. I have\r\nseen the foolish taking root, but their habitation was presently\r\nconsumed. Let their sons be far from safety; let them be\r\ndespised<a id=\"r171\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f171\"><sup>[171]</sup></a> before the gates of those less than themselves, and\r\nthere shall be none to deliver. For what was prepared for\r\nthem, the righteous shall eat; and they shall not be delivered\r\nfrom evil.”<a id=\"r172\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f172\"><sup>[172]</sup></a></p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE FIRST EPISTLE OF CLEMENT.","THE FIRST EPISTLE OF CLEMENT TO THE CORINTHIANS.","Chap. xxxix.—There is no reason for self-conceit."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-83"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"e624d2fdbc9482af532db7b0553da126fc3b0448a64a6e2752c8abcf82f2b7e7","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-f168","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":"f168","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f168\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r168\">168</a>.  </span>Literally, “and silly and uninstructed.”</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f168","text_sha256":"80f985c84358d1d32f9ee90fe7749b7704f20e8b2c400b6d8d58d2dbfce38b0c","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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