{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>He awed men by the fire when He made flame to burst from the pillar\r\nof cloud—a token at once of grace and<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_24\">[24]</span> fear: if you obey, there is\r\nthe light; if you disobey, there is the fire; but, since humanity is\r\nnobler than the pillar or the bush, after them the prophets uttered\r\ntheir voice,—the Lord Himself speaking in Isaiah, in Elias,—speaking\r\nHimself by the mouth of the prophets. But if thou dost not believe the\r\nprophets, but supposest both the men and the fire a myth, the Lord\r\nHimself shall speak to thee, “who, being in the form of God, thought it\r\nnot robbery to be equal with God, but humbled Himself,”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_19\" id=\"FNanchor_19\">[19]</a>—He, the\r\nmerciful God, exerting Himself to save man. And now the Word Himself\r\nclearly speaks to thee, shaming thy unbelief; yea, I say, the Word of\r\nGod became man, that thou mayest learn from man how man may become God.\r\nIs it not then monstrous, my friends, that while God is ceaselessly\r\nexhorting us to virtue, we should spurn His kindness and reject\r\nsalvation?</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_19","paragraph_id":"pg71937-paragraph-53"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"e7e803b4fa8b579e3b39f04ce02894eed97133a063989c239374cf4f67ec7968","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1867,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"PHP","chapter":2,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Phil. ii. 6","verse":6,"verse_end":6}],"headings":[],"id":"pg71937-Footnote_19","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_19","source_ebook":71937,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_19\" id=\"Footnote_19\">[19]</a> Phil. ii. 6, 7.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"8e5c5bc39922dbad2626ac7651c2eb2e3d94cdcbd721f781e9792143ebb1cd03","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/71937/pg71937-images.html#Footnote_19","text_sha256":"0fcbb26e36406335b01b82155663a11251b825ca91da0983ecda04c9bbc4f191","verified":false,"work_id":null}