{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>The King, then, who is Christ, beholds from above our laughter,\r\nand looking through the window, as the Scripture says, views the\r\nthanksgiving, and the blessing, and the rejoicing, and the gladness,\r\nand furthermore the endurance which works together with them and their\r\nembrace: views His church, showing only His face, which was wanting to\r\nthe church, which is made perfect by her royal Head. And where, then,\r\nwas the door by which the Lord showed Himself? The flesh by which He\r\nwas manifested. He is Isaac (for the narrative may be interpreted\r\notherwise), who is a type of the Lord, a child as a son; for he was\r\nthe son of Abraham, as Christ the Son of God, and a sacrifice as the\r\nLord, but he was not immolated as the Lord. Isaac only bore the wood\r\nof the sacrifice, as the Lord the wood of the cross. And he laughed\r\nmystically, prophesying that the Lord should fill us with joy, who\r\nhave been redeemed from corruption by the blood of the Lord. Isaac\r\ndid everything but suffer, as was right, yielding the precedence in\r\nsuffering to the Word. Furthermore, there is an intimation of the\r\ndivinity of the Lord in His not being slain. For Jesus rose again\r\nafter His burial, having suffered no harm, like Isaac released from\r\nsacrifice. And in defence of the point to be established, I shall\r\nadduce another consideration of the<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_130\">[130]</span> greatest weight. The Spirit calls\r\nthe Lord Himself a child, thus prophesying by Esaias: “Lo, to us a\r\nchild has been born, to us a son has been given, on whose own shoulder\r\nthe government shall be; and His name has been called the Angel of\r\ngreat Counsel.” Who, then, is this infant child? He according to whose\r\nimage we are made little children. By the same prophet is declared His\r\ngreatness: “Wonderful, Counsellor, Mighty God, Everlasting Father,\r\nPrince of Peace; that He might fulfil His discipline: and of His peace\r\nthere shall be no end.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_201\" id=\"FNanchor_201\">[201]</a> O the great God! O the perfect child! The\r\nSon in the Father, and the Father in the Son. And how shall not the\r\ndiscipline of this child be perfect, which extends to all, leading as a\r\nschoolmaster us as children, who are His little ones? He has stretched\r\nforth to us those hands of His that are conspicuously worthy of trust.\r\nTo this child additional testimony is borne by John, “the greatest\r\nprophet among those born of women:”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_202\" id=\"FNanchor_202\">[202]</a> “Behold the Lamb of God!”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_203\" id=\"FNanchor_203\">[203]</a>\r\nFor since Scripture calls the infant children lambs, it has also called\r\nHim—God the Word—who became man for our sakes, and who wished in all\r\npoints to be made like to us—“the Lamb of God”—Him, namely, that is\r\nthe Son of God, the child of the Father.</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_201","paragraph_id":"pg71937-paragraph-248"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"7f39b22782557da7dcc7beb14f110a3eb7fab2f85784d520743c48d2defad9fe","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1867,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"ISA","chapter":9,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Isa. ix. 6","verse":6,"verse_end":6}],"headings":[],"id":"pg71937-Footnote_201","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_201","source_ebook":71937,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_201\" id=\"Footnote_201\">[201]</a> Isa. ix. 6.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"8e5c5bc39922dbad2626ac7651c2eb2e3d94cdcbd721f781e9792143ebb1cd03","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/71937/pg71937-images.html#Footnote_201","text_sha256":"35db6c89f7832a7024074243d44120571549087f944c4677c97a6a37c29ff12a","verified":false,"work_id":null}