{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"p-left\">says Homer. “But each has his own proper gift of\r\nGod,”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_641\" id=\"FNanchor_641\">[641]</a>—one in one way, another in another. But the apostles were\r\nperfected in all. You will find, then, if you choose, in their acts and\r\nwritings, knowledge, life, preaching, righteousness, purity, prophecy.\r\nWe must know, then, that if Paul is young in respect to time—having\r\nflourished immediately after the Lord’s ascension—yet his writings\r\ndepend on the Old Testament, breathing and speaking of them. For faith\r\nin Christ and the knowledge of the gospel are the explanation and\r\nfulfilment of the law; and therefore it was said to the Hebrews, “If ye\r\nbelieve not, neither shall you understand;”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_642\" id=\"FNanchor_642\">[642]</a> that is, unless you\r\nbelieve what is prophesied in the law, and<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_202\">[202]</span> oracularly delivered by the\r\nlaw, you will not understand the Old Testament, which He by His coming\r\nexpounded.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK IV.","CHAPTER XXI. DESCRIPTION OF THE PERFECT MAN, OR GNOSTIC."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_642","paragraph_id":"pg73020-paragraph-263"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"cc4bb221fef18c17fc433a1984809d8741cf7f38760cca88b363917ad1c9adac","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"ISA","chapter":7,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Isa. vii. 9","verse":9,"verse_end":9}],"headings":[],"id":"pg73020-Footnote_642","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 1869 English translation; translator died 1875. Electronic transcription subject to Project Gutenberg reuse terms.","source_anchor":"Footnote_642","source_ebook":73020,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_642\" id=\"Footnote_642\">[642]</a> Isa. vii. 9.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"c35077683d75abe553cc6ef5d3ef5a1a978f07dfbcf4bad5c3d56302ad03dc19","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_642","text_sha256":"a4a95ed52ea3deaae1de5454f87f2fc0cfd1b1d40451003ac32ef42f1f1653b4","verified":false,"work_id":null}