{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">To bring forward some examples from among the heathen:\r\nMany kings and princes, in times of pestilence, when they\r\nhad been instructed by an oracle, have given themselves up\r\nto death, in order that by their own blood they might deliver\r\ntheir fellow-citizens [from destruction]. Many have gone\r\nforth from their own cities, that so sedition might be brought\r\nto an end within them. We know many among ourselves\r\nwho have given themselves up to bonds, in order that they\r\nmight ransom others. Many, too, have surrendered themselves\r\nto slavery, that with the price<a id=\"r241\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f241\"><sup>[241]</sup></a> which they received for\r\nthemselves, they might provide food for others. Many women\r\nalso, being strengthened by the grace of God, have performed\r\nnumerous manly exploits. The blessed Judith, when her\r\ncity was besieged, asked of the elders permission to go forth\r\ninto the camp of the strangers; and, exposing herself to\r\ndanger, she went out for the love which she bare to her\r\ncountry and people then besieged; and the Lord delivered\r\nHolofernes into the hands of a woman.<a id=\"r242\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f242\"><sup>[242]</sup></a> Esther also, being\r\nperfect in faith, exposed herself to no less danger, in order to\r\ndeliver the twelve tribes of Israel from impending destruction.\r\nFor with fasting and humiliation she entreated the\r\neverlasting God, who seeth all things; and He, perceiving\r\nthe humility of her spirit, delivered the people for whose sake\r\nshe had encountered peril.<a id=\"r243\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f243\"><sup>[243]</sup></a></p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE FIRST EPISTLE OF CLEMENT.","THE FIRST EPISTLE OF CLEMENT TO THE CORINTHIANS.","Chap. lv.—Examples of such love."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-99"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"58119685b0e8e59d47a13f653936ecb891524e42bdeae482ea27959fe4a812d4","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-f242","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":"f242","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f242\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r242\">242</a>. </span>Judith <abbr title=\"eight\">viii.</abbr> 30.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f242","text_sha256":"a4dcaf455cca09bffb12736ae24426acea06991d41bb22ec31c436412cdbea90","verified":false,"work_id":null}