{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Conformably, therefore, there are various abodes, according to the\r\nworth of those who have believed. To the point Solomon says, “For there\r\nshall be given to him the choice grace of faith, and a more pleasant\r\nlot in the temple of the Lord.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1107\" id=\"FNanchor_1107\">[1107]</a> For the comparative shows that\r\nthere are lower parts in the temple of God, which is the whole church.\r\nAnd the superlative remains to be conceived, where the Lord is.<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_371\">[371]</span> These\r\nchosen abodes, which are three, are indicated by the numbers in the\r\nGospel—the thirty, the sixty, the hundred.<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1108\" id=\"FNanchor_1108\">[1108]</a> And the perfect\r\ninheritance belongs to those who attain to “a perfect man,” according\r\nto the image of the Lord. And the likeness is not, as some imagine,\r\nthat of the human form; for this consideration is impious. Nor is the\r\nlikeness to the first cause that which consists in virtue. For this\r\nutterance is also impious, being that of those who have imagined that\r\nvirtue in man and in the sovereign God is the same. “Thou hast supposed\r\niniquity,” He says, “[in imagining] that I will be like to thee.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1109\" id=\"FNanchor_1109\">[1109]</a>\r\nBut “it is enough for the disciple to become as the Master,”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1110\" id=\"FNanchor_1110\">[1110]</a>\r\nsaith the Master. To the likeness of God, then, he that is introduced\r\ninto adoption and the friendship of God, to the just inheritance of the\r\nlords and gods is brought; if he be perfected, according to the Gospel,\r\nas the Lord Himself taught.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK VI.","CHAPTER XIV. DEGREES OF GLORY IN HEAVEN."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_1108","paragraph_id":"pg73020-paragraph-806"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"329290d67c8f978c1ea749e602fe274f090b174f1e4d87801a15ca789a7dceb2","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"MAT","chapter":13,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Matt. xiii. 8","verse":8,"verse_end":8}],"headings":[],"id":"pg73020-Footnote_1108","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_1108","source_ebook":73020,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_1108\" id=\"Footnote_1108\">[1108]</a> Matt. xiii. 8.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"c35077683d75abe553cc6ef5d3ef5a1a978f07dfbcf4bad5c3d56302ad03dc19","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_1108","text_sha256":"7a45f9512288dd91001dfd457e4c863e6f0ccdecdda6560482bdde7a73b2278d","verified":false,"work_id":null}