{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>You see that martyrdom for love’s sake is taught. And should you wish\r\nto be a martyr for the recompense of advantages, you shall hear again.\r\n“For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what\r\na man seeth, why doth he yet hope for? But if we hope for that we see\r\nnot, then do we with patience wait for it.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_536\" id=\"FNanchor_536\">[536]</a> “But if we also suffer\r\nfor righteousness’ sake,” says Peter, “blessed are we. Be not afraid\r\nof their fear, neither be troubled. But sanctify the Lord God in your\r\nhearts: and be ready always to give an answer to him that asks a reason\r\nof the hope that is in you, but with meekness and fear, having a good\r\nconscience; so that in reference to that for which you are spoken\r\nagainst,<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_161\">[161]</span> they may be ashamed who calumniate your good conversation\r\nin Christ. For it is better to suffer for well-doing, if the will of\r\nGod, than for evil-doing.” But if one should captiously say, And how\r\nis it possible for feeble flesh to resist the energies and spirits\r\nof the Powers?<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_537\" id=\"FNanchor_537\">[537]</a> well, let him know this, that, confiding in the\r\nAlmighty and the Lord, we war against the principalities of darkness,\r\nand against death. “Whilst thou art yet speaking,” He says, “Lo, here\r\nam I.” See the invincible Helper who shields us. “Think it not strange,\r\ntherefore, concerning the burning sent for your trial, as though\r\nsome strange thing happened to you: But, as you are partakers in the\r\nsufferings of Christ, rejoice; that at the revelation of His glory ye\r\nmay rejoice exultant. If ye be reproached in the name of Christ, happy\r\nare ye; for the Spirit of glory and of God resteth on you.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_538\" id=\"FNanchor_538\">[538]</a> As it\r\nis written, “Because for Thy sake we are killed all the day long; we\r\nare accounted as sheep for the slaughter. Nay, in all these things we\r\nare more than conquerors, through Him that loved us.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_539\" id=\"FNanchor_539\">[539]</a></p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK IV.","CHAPTER VII. THE BLESSEDNESS OF THE MARTYR."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_538","paragraph_id":"pg73020-paragraph-206"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"35b622e48b10533b4722d6a447cc524b175fda5a986926ed530031eefe5df44c","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"1PE","chapter":4,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"1 Pet. iv. 12","verse":12,"verse_end":12}],"headings":[],"id":"pg73020-Footnote_538","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_538","source_ebook":73020,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_538\" id=\"Footnote_538\">[538]</a> 1 Pet. iv. 12, 13, 14.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"c35077683d75abe553cc6ef5d3ef5a1a978f07dfbcf4bad5c3d56302ad03dc19","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_538","text_sha256":"582918db6dcab2592778d7588ca2e1b17fd2203c1a5c8e8ef1bf2f1bcbc0693d","verified":false,"work_id":null}