{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">These things therefore being manifest to\r\nus, and since we\r\nlook into the depths of the divine knowledge, it behoves us\r\nto do all things in [their proper] order, which the Lord has\r\ncommanded us to perform at stated times.<a id=\"r173\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f173\"><sup>[173]</sup></a> He has enjoined\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_36\">36</span>offerings [to be presented] and service to be performed [to\r\nHim], and that not thoughtlessly or irregularly, but at the\r\nappointed times and hours. Where and by whom He desires\r\nthese things to be done, He Himself has fixed by His own\r\nsupreme will, in order that all things being piously done\r\naccording to His good pleasure, may be acceptable unto Him.<a id=\"r174\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f174\"><sup>[174]</sup></a>\r\nThose, therefore, who present their offerings at the appointed\r\ntimes, are accepted and blessed; for inasmuch as they follow\r\nthe laws of the Lord, they sin not. For his own peculiar\r\nservices are assigned to the high priest, and their own proper\r\nplace is prescribed to the priests, and their own special\r\nministrations devolve on the Levites. The layman is bound\r\nby the laws that pertain to laymen.</p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE FIRST EPISTLE OF CLEMENT.","THE FIRST EPISTLE OF CLEMENT TO THE CORINTHIANS.","Chap. xl.—Let us preserve in the church the order appointed by God."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-84"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"a237a73892cb98ecc3595d7c367e5f2738e550843f80ab1d7ec910c80594d71e","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-f173","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":"f173","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f173\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r173\">173</a>. </span>Some join κατὰ καιροὺς τεταγμένους, “at stated times,” to the next\r\nsentence.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f173","text_sha256":"8ecd515134dc4ae3e40d36fa2aee3a937c85fa5f13a91d7c7968e8ff53948a45","verified":false,"work_id":null}