{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>For, in truth, the covenant of salvation, reaching down to us from the\r\nfoundation of the world, through different generations and times, is\r\none, though conceived as different in respect of gift. For it follows\r\nthat there is one unchangeable gift of salvation given by one God,\r\nthrough one Lord, benefiting in many ways. For which cause the middle\r\nwall<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1085\" id=\"FNanchor_1085\">[1085]</a> which separated the Greek from the Jew is taken away, in\r\norder that there might be a peculiar people. And so both meet in the\r\none unity of faith; and the selection out of both is one. And the\r\nchosen of the chosen are those who by reason of perfect knowledge are\r\nculled [as the best] from the church itself, and honoured with the most\r\naugust glory—the judges and rulers—four-and-twenty (the grace being\r\ndoubled) equally from Jews and Greeks. Since, according to my opinion,\r\nthe grades<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1086\" id=\"FNanchor_1086\">[1086]</a> here in the church, of bishops, presbyters, deacons,\r\nare imitations of the angelic glory, and of that economy which, the\r\nScriptures say, awaits those who, following the footsteps of the\r\napostles, have lived in perfection of righteousness according to the\r\ngospel. For these taken up in the clouds, the apostle<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1087\" id=\"FNanchor_1087\">[1087]</a> writes,\r\nwill first minister [as deacons], then be classed in the presbyterate,\r\nby promotion in glory (for glory differs<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1088\" id=\"FNanchor_1088\">[1088]</a> from glory) till they\r\ngrow into “a perfect man.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1089\" id=\"FNanchor_1089\">[1089]</a></p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK VI.","CHAPTER XIII. DEGREES OF GLORY IN HEAVEN CORRESPONDING WITH THE DIGNITIES OF THE CHURCH BELOW."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_1086","paragraph_id":"pg73020-paragraph-794"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"d84cc8c2fe601aa8478aea820de50268aea88bc73b8f8acfac06c43b9911cd47","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_1086","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_1086","source_ebook":73020,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_1086\" id=\"Footnote_1086\">[1086]</a> προκοπαί.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"c35077683d75abe553cc6ef5d3ef5a1a978f07dfbcf4bad5c3d56302ad03dc19","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_1086","text_sha256":"f8fa049b3528623b862611d4e25224e155c69f33624fa1e550e9b35037982038","verified":false,"work_id":null}