{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>God, then, is good. And the Lord speaks many a time and oft before He\r\nproceeds to act. “For my arrows,” He says, “will make an end of them;\r\nthey shall be consumed with hunger, and be eaten by birds; and there\r\nshall be incurable tetanic incurvature. I will send the teeth of wild\r\nbeasts upon them, with the rage of serpents creeping on the earth.\r\nWithout, the sword shall make them childless; and out of their chambers\r\nshall be fear.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_298\" id=\"FNanchor_298\">[298]</a> For the Divine Being is not angry in the way that\r\nsome think; but often restrains, and always exhorts humanity, and shows\r\nwhat ought to be done. And this is a good device, to terrify lest we\r\nsin. “For the fear of the Lord drives away sins, and he that is without\r\nfear cannot be justified,”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_299\" id=\"FNanchor_299\">[299]</a> says the Scripture. And God does not\r\ninflict punishment from wrath, but for the ends of justice; since it\r\nis not expedient that justice should be neglected on our account. Each\r\none of us, who sins, with his own free-will chooses punishment, and the\r\nblame lies with him who chooses.<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_300\" id=\"FNanchor_300\">[300]</a> God is without blame. “But if our\r\nunrighteousness commend the righteousness of God, what shall we say?\r\nIs God unrighteous, who taketh vengeance? God forbid.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_301\" id=\"FNanchor_301\">[301]</a> He says,\r\ntherefore, threatening, “I will sharpen my sword, and my hand shall\r\nlay hold on judgment; and I will render justice to mine enemies, and\r\nrequite those who hate me. I will make mine arrows drunk with blood,\r\nand my sword shall devour flesh from the blood of the wounded.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_302\" id=\"FNanchor_302\">[302]</a> It\r\nis clear, then, that those who are not at enmity with the truth, and do\r\nnot hate the Word, will not hate their own salvation, but will<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_160\">[160]</span> escape\r\nthe punishment of enmity. “The crown of wisdom,” then, as the book of\r\nWisdom says, “is the fear of the Lord.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_303\" id=\"FNanchor_303\">[303]</a> Very clearly, therefore,\r\nby the prophet Amos has the Lord unfolded His method of dealing,\r\nsaying, “I have overthrown you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah;\r\nand ye shall be as a brand plucked from the fire: and yet ye have not\r\nreturned unto me, saith the Lord.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_304\" id=\"FNanchor_304\">[304]</a></p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","THE INSTRUCTOR.","BOOK I.","CHAPTER VIII. AGAINST THOSE WHO THINK THAT WHAT IS JUST IS NOT GOOD."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_299","paragraph_id":"pg71937-paragraph-291"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"6e4d6c96a313a89211d62182d5e57d1d01116151bc66ddca2f78b4b1f953e1da","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1867,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"SIR","chapter":1,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Ecclus. i. 27","verse":27,"verse_end":27}],"headings":[],"id":"pg71937-Footnote_299","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_299","source_ebook":71937,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_299\" id=\"Footnote_299\">[299]</a> Ecclus. i. 27, 28.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"8e5c5bc39922dbad2626ac7651c2eb2e3d94cdcbd721f781e9792143ebb1cd03","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/71937/pg71937-images.html#Footnote_299","text_sha256":"fe336d1b1727960a776807a9f3e80e2191f2595400ad254ffcc65c245c4f4381","verified":false,"work_id":null}