Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>But how? Do not [the Scriptures] show that the Lord preached<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_970\" id=\"FNanchor_970\">[970]</a>\r\nthe gospel to those that perished in the flood, or rather had been\r\nchained, and to those kept “in ward and guard?”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_971\" id=\"FNanchor_971\">[971]</a> And it has been\r\nshown also,<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_972\" id=\"FNanchor_972\">[972]</a> in the second book<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_330\">[330]</span> of the <i>Stromata</i>, that the\r\napostles, following the Lord, preached the gospel to those in Hades.\r\nFor it was requisite, in my opinion, that as here, so also there, the\r\nbest of the disciples should be imitators of the Master; so that He\r\nshould bring to repentance those belonging to the Hebrews, and they the\r\nGentiles; that is, those who had lived in righteousness according to\r\nthe Law and Philosophy, who had ended life not perfectly, but sinfully.\r\nFor it was suitable to the divine administration, that those possessed\r\nof greater worth in righteousness, and whose life had been pre-eminent,\r\non repenting of their transgressions, though found in another place,\r\nyet being confessedly of the number of the people of God Almighty,\r\nshould be saved, each one according to his individual knowledge.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK VI.","CHAPTER VI. THE GOSPEL WAS PREACHED TO JEWS AND GENTILES IN HADES."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_970","paragraph_id":"pg73020-paragraph-708"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"820162f0e4463cf50a925d2067e7a44b9d5d0176ce67c4c1a032427477c38b76","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_970","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_970","source_ebook":73020,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_970\" id=\"Footnote_970\">[970]</a> εὐηγγελίσθαι used actively for εὐαγγελίσαι, as also\r\nimmediately after εὐηγγελισμένοι for εὐαγγελισάμενοι.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"c35077683d75abe553cc6ef5d3ef5a1a978f07dfbcf4bad5c3d56302ad03dc19","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_970","text_sha256":"dc23cb1f4cbbaefc8d6a8c40d7979f9a52c76ec9e2bb0a9506d672e8f2906db0","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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