{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">Let us then draw near to Him with holiness of spirit, lifting\r\nup pure and undefiled hands unto Him, loving our gracious\r\nand merciful Father, who has made us partakers in the blessings\r\nof His elect.<a id=\"r115\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f115\"><sup>[115]</sup></a> For thus it is written, “When the Most\r\nHigh divided the nations, when He scattered<a id=\"r116\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f116\"><sup>[116]</sup></a> the sons of\r\nAdam, He fixed the bounds of the nations according to the\r\nnumber of the angels of God. His people Jacob became the\r\nportion of the Lord, and Israel the lot of His inheritance.”<a id=\"r117\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f117\"><sup>[117]</sup></a>\r\nAnd in another place [the Scripture] saith, “Behold, the\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_28\">28</span>Lord taketh unto Himself a nation out of the midst of the\r\nnations, as a man takes the first-fruits of his threshing-floor;\r\nand from that nation shall come forth the Most Holy.”<a id=\"r118\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f118\"><sup>[118]</sup></a></p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE FIRST EPISTLE OF CLEMENT.","THE FIRST EPISTLE OF CLEMENT TO THE CORINTHIANS.","Chap. xxix.—Let us also draw near to God in purity of heart."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-73"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"f6cbf827c7ddb4c0cefe6672d6bb2cbc695b1005fc96a55ec715b9eed405cc68","edition_title":"The writings of the Apostolic Fathers","edition_translators":["Alexander Roberts","James Donaldson","Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1870,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"DEU","chapter":32,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Deut. xxxii. 8","verse":8,"verse_end":8}],"headings":[],"id":"pg77576-f117","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":"f117","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f117\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r117\">117</a>. </span><abbr title=\"Deuteronomy\">Deut.</abbr> <abbr title=\"thirty-two\">xxxii.</abbr> 8, 9.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f117","text_sha256":"c9195f11c71eae694fbd44c60461dbb60a338df5dd2b712313c85f32ed912c6c","verified":false,"work_id":null}