{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Feed us, the children, as sheep. Yea, Master, fill us with\r\nrighteousness, Thine own pasture; yea, O Instructor, feed us on\r\nThy holy mountain the church, which towers aloft, which is above\r\nthe clouds, which touches heaven. “And I will be,” He says, “their\r\nShepherd,”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_370\" id=\"FNanchor_370\">[370]</a> and will be near them, as the garment to their skin. He\r\nwishes to save my flesh by enveloping it in the robe of immortality,\r\nand He hath anointed my body. “They shall call me,” He says, “and I\r\nwill say, Here am I.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_371\" id=\"FNanchor_371\">[371]</a> Thou didst hear sooner than I expected,\r\nMaster. “And if they pass over, they shall not slip,”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_372\" id=\"FNanchor_372\">[372]</a> saith the\r\nLord. For we who are passing over to immortality shall not fall into\r\ncorruption, for He shall sustain us. For so He has said, and so He has\r\nwilled. Such is our Instructor, righteously good. “I came not,” He\r\nsays, “to be ministered unto, but to minister.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_373\" id=\"FNanchor_373\">[373]</a> Wherefore He is\r\nintroduced in the Gospel “wearied,”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_374\" id=\"FNanchor_374\">[374]</a> because toiling for us,<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_171\">[171]</span> and\r\npromising “to give His life a ransom for many.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_375\" id=\"FNanchor_375\">[375]</a> For him alone who\r\ndoes so He owns to be the good shepherd. Generous, therefore, is He who\r\ngives for us the greatest of all gifts, His own life; and beneficent\r\nexceedingly, and loving to men, in that, when He might have been Lord,\r\nHe wished to be a brother man; and so good was He that He died for us.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","THE INSTRUCTOR.","BOOK I.","CHAPTER IX. THAT IT IS THE PREROGATIVE OF THE SAME POWER TO BE BENEFICENT AND TO PUNISH JUSTLY. ALSO THE MANNER OF THE INSTRUCTION OF THE LOGOS."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_374","paragraph_id":"pg71937-paragraph-314"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"0e762f7256354aed8c8f2af2cc560b5178a325f7645a63ad493e919994514480","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1867,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"JHN","chapter":4,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"John iv. 6","verse":6,"verse_end":6}],"headings":[],"id":"pg71937-Footnote_374","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_374","source_ebook":71937,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_374\" id=\"Footnote_374\">[374]</a> John iv. 6.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"8e5c5bc39922dbad2626ac7651c2eb2e3d94cdcbd721f781e9792143ebb1cd03","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/71937/pg71937-images.html#Footnote_374","text_sha256":"343bdb3505eb88ac1dae2d16347b510a6465a6d266e46e0415646ab697638dae","verified":false,"work_id":null}