{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Whether, then, the Phrygians are shown to be the most ancient people\r\nby the goats of the fable; or, on the other hand, the Arcadians by\r\nthe poets, who describe them as older than<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_22\">[22]</span> the moon; or, finally,\r\nthe Egyptians by those who dream that this land first gave birth to\r\ngods and men: yet none of these at least existed before the world.\r\nBut before the foundation of the world were we, who, because destined\r\nto be in Him, pre-existed in the eye of God before,—we the rational\r\ncreatures of the Word of God, on whose account we date from the\r\nbeginning; for “in the beginning was the Word.” Well, inasmuch as the\r\nWord was from the first, He was and is the divine source of all things;\r\nbut inasmuch as He has now assumed the name Christ, consecrated of\r\nold, and worthy of power, he has been called by me the New Song. This\r\nWord, then, the Christ, the cause of both our being at first (for He\r\nwas in God) and of our well-being, this very Word has now appeared as\r\nman, He alone being both, both God and man—the Author of all blessings\r\nto us; by whom we, being taught to live well, are sent on our way to\r\nlife eternal. For, according to that inspired apostle of the Lord,\r\n“the grace of God which bringeth salvation hath appeared to all men,\r\nteaching us, that, denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, we should\r\nlive soberly, righteously, and godly, in this present world; looking\r\nfor the blessed hope, and appearing of the glory of the great God and\r\nour Saviour Jesus Christ.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_17\" id=\"FNanchor_17\">[17]</a></p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","EXHORTATION TO THE HEATHEN.","CHAPTER I. EXHORTATION TO ABANDON THE IMPIOUS MYSTERIES OF IDOLATRY FOR THE ADORATION OF THE DIVINE WORD AND GOD THE FATHER."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_17","paragraph_id":"pg71937-paragraph-50"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"23b4730367354eac2256070de565fb3f038c4e95745f65bc989ca1e3928976fb","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_17","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_17","source_ebook":71937,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_17\" id=\"Footnote_17\">[17]</a> Tit. ii. 11–13.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"8e5c5bc39922dbad2626ac7651c2eb2e3d94cdcbd721f781e9792143ebb1cd03","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/71937/pg71937-images.html#Footnote_17","text_sha256":"a3b931b6b68238b6c1bd2ada54ba1fb0adf7a4534d08c1ac887261914d342b74","verified":false,"work_id":null}