{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">Let our whole body, then, be preserved in Christ Jesus;\r\nand let every one be subject to his neighbour, according to\r\nthe special gift<a id=\"r164\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f164\"><sup>[164]</sup></a> bestowed upon him. Let the strong not\r\ndespise the weak, and let the weak show respect unto the\r\nstrong. Let the rich man provide for the wants of the poor;\r\nand let the poor man bless God, because He hath given him\r\none by whom his need may be supplied. Let the wise man\r\ndisplay his wisdom, not by [mere] words, but through good\r\ndeeds. Let the humble not bear testimony to himself, but\r\nleave witness to be borne to him by another.<a id=\"r165\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f165\"><sup>[165]</sup></a> Let him that\r\nis pure in the flesh not grow proud<a id=\"r166\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f166\"><sup>[166]</sup></a> of it, and boast, knowing\r\nthat it was another who bestowed on him the gift of continence.\r\nLet us consider, then, brethren, of what matter we\r\nwere made,—who and what manner of beings we came into\r\nthe world, as it were out of a sepulchre, and from utter\r\ndarkness.<a id=\"r167\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f167\"><sup>[167]</sup></a> He who made us and fashioned us, having prepared\r\nHis bountiful gifts for us before we were born, introduced\r\nus into His world. Since, therefore, we receive all\r\nthese things from Him, we ought for everything to give Him\r\nthanks; to whom be glory for ever and ever. Amen.</p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE FIRST EPISTLE OF CLEMENT.","THE FIRST EPISTLE OF CLEMENT TO THE CORINTHIANS.","Chap. xxxviii.—Let the members of the church submit themselves, and no one exalt himself above another."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-82"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"47f04fbc6f01ee446205c2c42e8ad7c3e0840b02e5b074dd3da8f7fdabb59262","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-f164","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":"f164","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f164\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r164\">164</a>. </span>Literally, “according as he has been placed in his charism.”</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f164","text_sha256":"96564a0e512b43542ab323489caf01cd32d8b2185258d2582c913462ec33e9dc","verified":false,"work_id":null}