{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">Wherefore, brethren, leaving [willingly] our sojourn in\r\nthis present world, let us do the will of Him that called us,\r\nand not fear to depart out of this world. For the Lord\r\nsaith, “Ye shall be as lambs in the midst of wolves.”<a id=\"r282\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f282\"><sup>[282]</sup></a> And\r\nPeter answered and said unto Him,<a id=\"r283\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f283\"><sup>[283]</sup></a> “What, then, if the\r\nwolves shall tear in pieces the lambs?” Jesus said unto\r\nPeter, “The lambs have no cause after they are dead to\r\nfear<a id=\"r284\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f284\"><sup>[284]</sup></a> the wolves; and in like manner, fear not ye them that\r\nkill you, and can do nothing more unto you; but fear Him\r\nwho, after you are dead, has power over both soul and body\r\nto cast them into hell-fire.”<a id=\"r285\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f285\"><sup>[285]</sup></a> And consider,<a id=\"r286\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f286\"><sup>[286]</sup></a> brethren, that\r\nthe sojourning in the flesh in this world is but brief and\r\ntransient, but the promise of Christ is great and wonderful,\r\neven the rest of the kingdom to come, and of life everlasting.<a id=\"r287\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f287\"><sup>[287]</sup></a>\r\nBy what course of conduct, then, shall we attain these things,\r\nbut by leading a holy and righteous life, and by deeming\r\nthese worldly things as not belonging to us, and not fixing\r\nour desires upon them? For if we desire to possess them,\r\nwe fall away from the path of righteousness.</p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE SECOND EPISTLE OF CLEMENT.","THE SECOND EPISTLE OF CLEMENT.","Chap. v.—This world should be despised."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-109"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"09fbe4504c33ac7a28cc196f570f2119f786227e32a31ae3ef72c93238ff503b","edition_title":"The writings of the Apostolic Fathers","edition_translators":["Alexander Roberts","James Donaldson","Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1870,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg77576-f284","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. Historical 1870 English edition; electronic transcription subject to Project Gutenberg reuse terms.","source_anchor":"f284","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f284\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r284\">284</a>. </span>Or, “Let not the lambs fear.”</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f284","text_sha256":"6a1fac5462fcd3fce756b5911a592b8c107a19940742d59964f3e17ade774853","verified":false,"work_id":null}