Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>And further, that the same God that furnished both the Covenants was\r\nthe giver of Greek philosophy to the Greeks, by which the Almighty\r\nis glorified among the Greeks, he shows. And it is clear from this.\r\nAccordingly, then, from the Hellenic training, and also from that of\r\nthe law, are gathered into the one race of the saved people those\r\nwho accept faith: not that the three peoples are separated by time,\r\nso<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_328\">[328]</span> that one might suppose three natures, but trained in different\r\nCovenants of the one Lord, by the word of the one Lord. For that, as\r\nGod wished to save the Jews by giving to them prophets, so also by\r\nraising up prophets of their own in their own tongue, as they were\r\nable to receive God’s beneficence, He distinguished the most excellent\r\nof the Greeks from the common herd, in addition to “<i>Peter’s\r\nPreaching</i>,” the Apostle Paul will show, saying: “Take also the\r\nHellenic books, read the Sibyl, how it is shown that God is one, and\r\nhow the future is indicated. And taking Hystaspes, read, and you will\r\nfind much more luminously and distinctly the Son of God described, and\r\nhow many kings shall draw up their forces against Christ, hating Him\r\nand those that bear His name, and His faithful ones, and His patience,\r\nand His coming.” Then in one word he asks us, “Whose is the world, and\r\nall that is in the world? Are they not God’s?”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_966\" id=\"FNanchor_966\">[966]</a> Wherefore Peter\r\nsays, that the Lord said to the apostles: “If any one of Israel, then,\r\nwishes to repent, and by my name to believe in God, his sins shall be\r\nforgiven him, after twelve years. Go forth into the world, that no one\r\nmay say, We have not heard.”</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK VI.","CHAPTER V. THE GREEKS HAD SOME KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUE GOD."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_966","paragraph_id":"pg73020-paragraph-704"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"25e0442654549813d5f2f8a66df0b7e070a8c3e454207644e7edfc3e395dd58b","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg73020-Footnote_966","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 1869 English translation; translator died 1875. Electronic transcription subject to Project Gutenberg reuse terms.","source_anchor":"Footnote_966","source_ebook":73020,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_966\" id=\"Footnote_966\">[966]</a> Most likely taken from some apocryphal book bearing the\r\nname of Paul.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"c35077683d75abe553cc6ef5d3ef5a1a978f07dfbcf4bad5c3d56302ad03dc19","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_966","text_sha256":"9c1ed7d758e675d14f5e96e1c117b41b4660ad7bba9ee2ab948768de8705c6fd","verified":false,"work_id":null}

references: [] | work_id: | origin: existing-private-derived-record | source: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_966