{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Such images of divine wisdom are many; but I shall mention one\r\ninstance, and expound it in a few words. The fate of the Sodomites was\r\njudgment to those who had done wrong, instruction to those who hear.\r\nThe Sodomites having, through much luxury, fallen into uncleanness,\r\npractising adultery shamelessly, and burning with insane love for\r\nboys; the All-seeing Word, whose notice those who commit impieties\r\ncannot escape, cast His eye on them. Nor did the sleepless guard of\r\nhumanity observe their licentiousness in silence; but dissuading us\r\nfrom the imitation of them, and training us up to His own temperance,\r\nand falling on some sinners, lest lust being unavenged, should break\r\nloose from all the restraints of fear, ordered Sodom to be burned,\r\npouring forth a little of the sagacious fire on licentiousness; lest\r\nlust, through want of punishment, should throw wide the gates to\r\nthose that were rushing into voluptuousness. Accordingly, the just\r\npunishment of the Sodomites became to men an image of the salvation\r\nwhich is well calculated for men. For those who have not committed\r\nlike sins with those who are punished, will never receive a like\r\npunishment. By guarding against sinning, we guard against suffering.\r\n“For I would have you to know,” says Jude, “that God, having once\r\nsaved His people from the land of Egypt, afterwards destroyed them\r\nthat believed not; and the angels which kept not their first estate,\r\nbut left their own habitation, He hath<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_307\">[307]</span> reserved to the judgment of\r\nthe great day, in everlasting chains under darkness of the savage\r\nangels.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_684\" id=\"FNanchor_684\">[684]</a> And a little after he sets forth, in a most instructive\r\nmanner, representations of those that are judged: “Woe unto them,\r\nfor they have gone in the way of Cain, and run greedily after the\r\nerror of Balaam, and perished in the gainsaying of Core.” For those,\r\nwho cannot attain the privilege of adoption, fear keeps from growing\r\ninsolent. For punishments and threats are for this end, that fearing\r\nthe penalty we may abstain from sinning. I might relate to you\r\npunishments for ostentation, and punishments for vainglory, not only\r\nfor licentiousness; and adduce the censures pronounced on those whose\r\nhearts are bad through wealth,<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_685\" id=\"FNanchor_685\">[685]</a> in which censures the Word through\r\nfear restrains from evil acts. But sparing prolixity in my treatise, I\r\nshall bring forward the following precepts of the Instructor, that you\r\nmay guard against His threatenings.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","THE INSTRUCTOR.","BOOK III.","CHAPTER VIII. SIMILITUDES AND EXAMPLES A MOST IMPORTANT PART OF RIGHT INSTRUCTION."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_684","paragraph_id":"pg71937-paragraph-552"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"13b0ca9a4e0238713fe99ac4b2f720b4a2ddb66922270f17202a8a753b47f0a0","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1867,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg71937-Footnote_684","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 1867 English translation; translator died 1875. Electronic transcription subject to Project Gutenberg reuse terms.","source_anchor":"Footnote_684","source_ebook":71937,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_684\" id=\"Footnote_684\">[684]</a> Jude 5, 6.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"8e5c5bc39922dbad2626ac7651c2eb2e3d94cdcbd721f781e9792143ebb1cd03","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/71937/pg71937-images.html#Footnote_684","text_sha256":"e444a0292b8749ce7ba56f7de401f94a8f19ae27ff784ac15f00e42871bf0db4","verified":false,"work_id":null}