{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>And when He says, “Let my lambs stand on my right,”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_181\" id=\"FNanchor_181\">[181]</a> He alludes to\r\nthe simple children, as if they were sheep and lambs in nature, not\r\nmen; and the lambs He counts worthy of preference, from the superior\r\nregard He has to that tenderness and simplicity of disposition in men\r\nwhich constitutes innocence. Again, when He says, “as sucking calves,”\r\nHe again alludes figuratively to us; and “as an innocent and<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_124\">[124]</span> gentle\r\ndove,”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_182\" id=\"FNanchor_182\">[182]</a> the reference is again to us. Again, by Moses, He commands\r\n“two young pigeons or a pair of turtles to be offered for sin;”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_183\" id=\"FNanchor_183\">[183]</a>\r\nthus saying, that the harmlessness and innocence and placable nature\r\nof these tender young birds are acceptable to God, and explaining\r\nthat like is an expiation for like. Further, the timorousness of the\r\nturtle-doves typifies fear in reference to sin.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","THE INSTRUCTOR.","BOOK I.","CHAPTER V. ALL WHO WALK ACCORDING TO TRUTH ARE CHILDREN OF GOD."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_182","paragraph_id":"pg71937-paragraph-242"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"f489a2b33a823e491a87a51fe6dbd564d6aa8a8f003530cb656ae6e8d2c2015b","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1867,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"MAT","chapter":10,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Matt. x. 16","verse":16,"verse_end":16}],"headings":[],"id":"pg71937-Footnote_182","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_182","source_ebook":71937,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_182\" id=\"Footnote_182\">[182]</a> Matt. x. 16.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"8e5c5bc39922dbad2626ac7651c2eb2e3d94cdcbd721f781e9792143ebb1cd03","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/71937/pg71937-images.html#Footnote_182","text_sha256":"c8db600b1e34ed65419df7da2e5763539c7f523a1c069a368164f24299919034","verified":false,"work_id":null}