{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>If, then, both proclaim the Word—the one by writing, the other by\r\nspeech—are not both then to be approved, making, as they do, faith\r\nactive by love? It is by one’s own fault that he does not choose what\r\nis best; God is free of blame. As to the point in hand, it is the\r\nbusiness of some to lay out the word at interest, and of others to\r\ntest it, and either choose it or not. And the judgment is determined\r\nwithin themselves. But there is that species of knowledge which\r\nis characteristic of the herald, and that which is, as it were,\r\ncharacteristic of a messenger, and it is serviceable in whatever way\r\nit operates, both by the hand and tongue. “For he that soweth to the\r\nSpirit, shall of the Spirit reap life everlasting. And let us not be\r\nweary in well-doing.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_810\" id=\"FNanchor_810\">[810]</a> On him who by Divine Providence meets in\r\nwith it, it confers the very highest advantages,—the beginning of\r\nfaith, readiness for adopting a right mode of life, the impulse towards\r\nthe truth, a movement of inquiry, a trace of knowledge; in a word, it\r\ngives the means of salvation. And those who have been rightly reared\r\nin the words of truth, and received provision for eternal life, wing\r\ntheir way to heaven. Most admirably, therefore, the apostle says, “In\r\neverything approving ourselves as the servants of God; as poor, and\r\nyet making many rich; as having nothing, yet possessing all things.\r\nOur mouth is opened to you.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_811\" id=\"FNanchor_811\">[811]</a> “I charge thee,” he says, writing\r\nto Timothy, “before God, and Christ Jesus, and the elect angels, that\r\nthou observe these things, without preferring one before another, doing\r\nnothing by partiality.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_812\" id=\"FNanchor_812\">[812]</a></p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","THE MISCELLANIES.","BOOK I.","CHAPTER I. PREFACE—THE AUTHOR’S OBJECT—THE UTILITY OF WRITTEN COMPOSITIONS."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_812","paragraph_id":"pg71937-paragraph-657"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"6f43ce43a53a7dcb2c5183fdcd18ee3745c3e7ef3a85774972a53f750dc3319e","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1867,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"1TI","chapter":5,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"1 Tim. v. 21","verse":21,"verse_end":21}],"headings":[],"id":"pg71937-Footnote_812","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_812","source_ebook":71937,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_812\" id=\"Footnote_812\">[812]</a> 1 Tim. v. 21.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"8e5c5bc39922dbad2626ac7651c2eb2e3d94cdcbd721f781e9792143ebb1cd03","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/71937/pg71937-images.html#Footnote_812","text_sha256":"db81d0f93de48ed5638b718dfd65aa0e163897a5e8a29f8a904c7dc1f3df4e66","verified":false,"work_id":null}