{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>How great also is benignity! “Love your enemies,” it is said, “bless\r\nthem who curse you, and pray for them who despitefully use you,”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_576\" id=\"FNanchor_576\">[576]</a>\r\nand the like; to which it is added, “that ye may be the children of\r\nyour Father who is in heaven,” in allusion to resemblance to God.\r\nAgain, it is said, “Agree with thine adversary quickly, whilst thou\r\nart in the way with him.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_577\" id=\"FNanchor_577\">[577]</a> The adversary is not the body, as some\r\nwould have it, but the devil, and those assimilated to him, who walks\r\nalong with us in the person of men, who emulate his deeds in this\r\nearthly life. It is inevitable, then, that those who confess themselves\r\nto belong to Christ, but find themselves in the midst of the devil’s\r\nworks, suffer the most hostile treatment. For it is written, “Lest he\r\ndeliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officers\r\nof Satan’s kingdom.” “For I am persuaded that neither death,” through\r\nthe assault of persecutors, “nor life” in this world, “nor angels,” the\r\napostate ones, “nor powers” (and Satan’s power is the life which he\r\nchose, for such are the powers and principalities of darkness belonging\r\nto him), “nor things present,” amid which we exist during the time of\r\nlife, as the hope entertained by the soldier, and the merchant’s gain,\r\n“nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature,” in consequence<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_183\">[183]</span> of the\r\nenergy proper to a man,—opposes the faith of him who acts according\r\nto free choice. “Creature” is synonymous with activity, being our\r\nwork, and such activity “shall not be able to separate us from the\r\nlove of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_578\" id=\"FNanchor_578\">[578]</a> You have got a\r\ncompendious account of the gnostic martyr.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK IV.","CHAPTER XIV. THE LOVE OF ALL, EVEN OF OUR ENEMIES."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_577","paragraph_id":"pg73020-paragraph-229"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"0a21f801f36bd6c7cca12827672e114aca1a4038ddf448b4ce367eb2a32b0106","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"MAT","chapter":5,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Matt. v. 24","verse":24,"verse_end":24}],"headings":[],"id":"pg73020-Footnote_577","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_577","source_ebook":73020,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_577\" id=\"Footnote_577\">[577]</a> Matt. v. 24.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"c35077683d75abe553cc6ef5d3ef5a1a978f07dfbcf4bad5c3d56302ad03dc19","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_577","text_sha256":"1c01d1d8fbf51820858ad3f8d5167ea5c55bfc813e94045aca6f37a15b988a2a","verified":false,"work_id":null}