{"author":null,"canonical_references":[],"database_sha256":"8cfbe7284c6936871d57c02dc6aa63ebbdfd4722422d539dd9f716e46e91112e","date_end":null,"date_start":null,"edition_year":null,"id":"sermonindex-ecf-3948","native_reference":{"book_number":50,"chapter_from":26,"chapter_to":26,"system":"MyBible module coordinates (mapping unverified)","verse_from":18,"verse_to":18},"public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"verse-keyed-module-record","review_required":["English edition and exact text","author/work attribution","dating","verse mapping and citation kind","reuse and attribution","split author quotations and deduplicate"],"review_status":"unreviewed","source_html":"<p><b>Clement of Alexandria</b>: These are evidently symbolic—hands, of action; heart, of deliberation; mouth, of speech. There is an excellent text on the subject of the penitent: \"You have chosen God today to be your God, and the Lord has chosen you today to be his people.\" God makes his own the person who is eager to serve truth and reality and comes as a suppliant. Even if he is only one in number, he is honored on equal terms with the whole people. He is a part of the people. He becomes the complement of the people once he is reestablished out of his previous position, and the whole in fact takes its name from the part.<br/><i>— The Stromata Book 2</i></p>","source_html_sha256":"830ebcfe04c033d8d8b1ddb625d817b0b34513a04f2f807dc42a0bec159f2cb3","source_module":"ECF","source_row_id":3948,"source_url":"https://www.sermonindex.net/commentary/ecf/","text_sha256":"c5e1630b397570366f522fadb404236ebf6cb5c355e272364c8f85cd69f596d2","translator":null,"work":null}