{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>But among the lies, the false prophets also told some true things. And\r\nin reality they prophesied “in an ecstasy,” as the servants of the\r\napostate. And the Shepherd, the angel of repentance, says to Hermas, of\r\nthe false prophet: “For he speaks some truths. For the devil fills him\r\nwith his own spirit, if perchance he may be able to cast down any one\r\nfrom what is right.” All things, therefore, are dispensed from heaven\r\nfor good, “that by the church may be made known the manifold wisdom of\r\nGod, according to the eternal foreknowledge,<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_956\" id=\"FNanchor_956\">[956]</a> which He purposed in\r\nChrist.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_957\" id=\"FNanchor_957\">[957]</a> Nothing withstands God: nothing opposes Him: seeing He\r\nis Lord and omnipotent. Further, the counsels and activities of those\r\nwho have rebelled, being partial, proceed from a bad<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_409\">[409]</span> disposition, as\r\nbodily diseases from a bad constitution, but are guided by universal\r\nProvidence to a salutary issue, even though the cause be productive\r\nof disease. It is accordingly the greatest achievement of divine\r\nProvidence, not to allow the evil, which has sprung from voluntary\r\napostasy, to remain useless, and for no good, and not to become in\r\nall respects injurious. For it is the work of the divine wisdom, and\r\nexcellence, and power, not alone to do good (for this is, so to speak,\r\nthe nature of God, as it is of fire to warm and of light to illumine),\r\nbut especially to ensure that what happens through the evils hatched by\r\nany, may come to a good and useful issue, and to use to advantage those\r\nthings which appear to be evils, as also the testimony which accrues\r\nfrom temptation.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","THE MISCELLANIES.","BOOK I.","CHAPTER XVII. ON THE SAYING OF THE SAVIOUR, “ALL THAT CAME BEFORE ME WERE THIEVES AND ROBBERS.”"],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_957","paragraph_id":"pg71937-paragraph-743"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"406adb351a843c23292e2a7ac597fa1ee0e266bbcef02ca479044c2c4795d5f3","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1867,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"EPH","chapter":3,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Eph. iii. 10","verse":10,"verse_end":10}],"headings":[],"id":"pg71937-Footnote_957","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_957","source_ebook":71937,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_957\" id=\"Footnote_957\">[957]</a> Eph. iii. 10, 11.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"8e5c5bc39922dbad2626ac7651c2eb2e3d94cdcbd721f781e9792143ebb1cd03","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/71937/pg71937-images.html#Footnote_957","text_sha256":"c710902c22450844fd9b7236c6b4374b7b8dc43e16ca5822b31b7d408af61e38","verified":false,"work_id":null}