{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">The good servant<a id=\"r137\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f137\"><sup>[137]</sup></a> receives the bread of his labour with\r\nconfidence; the lazy and slothful cannot look his employer\r\nin the face. It is requisite, therefore, that we be prompt\r\nin the practice of well-doing; for of Him are all things.\r\nAnd thus He forewarns us: “Behold, the Lord [cometh],\r\nand His reward is before His face, to render to every man\r\naccording to his work.”<a id=\"r138\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f138\"><sup>[138]</sup></a> He exhorts us, therefore, with our\r\nwhole heart to attend to this,<a id=\"r139\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f139\"><sup>[139]</sup></a> that we be not lazy or slothful\r\nin any good work. Let our boasting and our confidence be\r\nin Him. Let us submit ourselves to His will. Let us consider\r\nthe whole multitude of His angels, how they stand ever\r\nready to minister to His will. For the Scripture saith,\r\n“Ten thousand times ten thousand stood around Him, and\r\nthousands of thousands ministered unto Him,<a id=\"r140\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f140\"><sup>[140]</sup></a> and cried,\r\nHoly, holy, holy, [is] the Lord of Sabaoth; the whole creation\r\nis full of His glory.”<a id=\"r141\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f141\"><sup>[141]</sup></a> And let us therefore, conscientiously\r\ngathering together in harmony, cry to Him earnestly,\r\nas with one mouth, that we may be made partakers of His\r\ngreat and glorious promises. For [the Scripture] saith,\r\n“Eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, neither have entered\r\ninto the heart of man, the things which He hath prepared\r\nfor them that wait for Him.”<a id=\"r142\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f142\"><sup>[142]</sup></a></p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE FIRST EPISTLE OF CLEMENT.","THE FIRST EPISTLE OF CLEMENT TO THE CORINTHIANS.","Chap. xxxiv.—Great is the reward of good works with God. Joined together in harmony, let us implore that reward from Him."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-78"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"08eaed987c18b675ca38ba8e283bb8a07405a20e00774380831f37fa5a0b9241","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-f139","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":"f139","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f139\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r139\">139</a>. </span>The text here seems to be corrupt. Some translate, “He warns us\r\nwith all His heart to this end, that,” etc.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f139","text_sha256":"ff3c7f43aaf3f3fbad725d1d34d0c4d9197ec07df17510a3bc25a4bf0209eb3a","verified":false,"work_id":null}