Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>The angel announced to us the glad tidings of a husband. John entreated\r\nus to recognise the husbandman, to seek the husband. For this husband\r\nof the barren woman, and this husbandman of the desert—who filled with\r\ndivine power the barren woman and the desert—is one and the same.\r\nFor because many were the children of the mother of noble race, yet\r\nthe Hebrew woman, once blessed with many children, was made childless\r\nbecause of unbelief: the barren woman receives the husband, and the\r\ndesert the husbandman; then both become mothers through the word, the\r\none of fruits, the other of believers. But to the unbelieving the\r\nbarren and the desert are still reserved. For this reason John, the\r\nherald of the Word, besought men to make themselves ready against the\r\ncoming of the Christ of God.<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_23\" id=\"FNanchor_23\">[23]</a> And it was this which was signified\r\nby the dumbness of Zacharias, which waited for fruit in the person\r\nof the harbinger of Christ, that the Word, the light of truth, by\r\nbecoming the gospel, might break the mystic silence of the prophetic\r\nenigmas. But if thou desirest truly to see God, take to thyself means\r\nof purification worthy of Him, not leaves of laurel fillets interwoven\r\nwith wool and purple; but wreathing thy brows with righteousness, and\r\nencircling them with the leaves of temperance, set thyself earnestly to\r\nfind Christ. “For I am,” He says, “the door,”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_24\" id=\"FNanchor_24\">[24]</a> which we who desire\r\nto understand God must discover, that He may throw heaven’s gates wide\r\nopen to us. For the gates of the Word being intellectual, are opened by\r\nthe key of faith. No one knows God but the Son, and he to whom the Son\r\nshall reveal Him.<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_25\" id=\"FNanchor_25\">[25]</a> And I know well that He who has opened the door\r\nhitherto shut, will afterwards reveal what is within; and will show\r\nwhat we could not have known before, had we not entered in by Christ,\r\nthrough whom alone God is beheld.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","EXHORTATION TO THE HEATHEN.","CHAPTER I. EXHORTATION TO ABANDON THE IMPIOUS MYSTERIES OF IDOLATRY FOR THE ADORATION OF THE DIVINE WORD AND GOD THE FATHER."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_23","paragraph_id":"pg71937-paragraph-55"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"7160571d2b70dd0c8060eb175d0739052d71c8f261fe4680ffc131e9a7c77708","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_23","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_23","source_ebook":71937,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_23\" id=\"Footnote_23\">[23]</a> This may be translated, “of God the Christ.”</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"8e5c5bc39922dbad2626ac7651c2eb2e3d94cdcbd721f781e9792143ebb1cd03","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/71937/pg71937-images.html#Footnote_23","text_sha256":"8fc4ff1523fa3ffb2696ced84eca365e2cb9005333c7cf3e3a0abef37277332f","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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