{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">Since, then, He has displayed so great mercy towards us,\r\nand especially in this respect, that we who are living should\r\nnot offer sacrifices to gods that are dead, or pay them worship,\r\nbut should attain through Him to the knowledge of the\r\ntrue Father, whereby shall we show that we do indeed know\r\nHim,<a id=\"r274\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f274\"><sup>[274]</sup></a> but by not denying Him through whom this knowledge\r\nhas been attained? For He himself declares, “Whosoever\r\nshall confess me before men, him will I confess before my\r\nFather.”<a id=\"r275\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f275\"><sup>[275]</sup></a> This, then, is our reward if we shall confess Him\r\nby whom we have been saved. But in what way shall we\r\nconfess Him? By doing what He says, and not transgressing\r\nHis commandments, and by honouring Him not with our\r\nlips only, but with all our heart and all our mind.<a id=\"r276\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f276\"><sup>[276]</sup></a> For He\r\nsays in Isaiah, “This people honoureth me with their lips, but\r\ntheir heart is far from me.”<a id=\"r277\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f277\"><sup>[277]</sup></a></p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE SECOND EPISTLE OF CLEMENT.","THE SECOND EPISTLE OF CLEMENT.","Chap. iii.—The duty of confessing Christ."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-107"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"48afe2e07e5706f2be90d9fc6f9bf151b7c9f1eb112d4a04bb5944f9451c65d4","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-f274","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":"f274","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f274\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r274\">274</a>. </span>Literally, “what is the knowledge which is towards Him.”</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f274","text_sha256":"647ab3aa3a71e955a0f61ae0c0692ddea74c0791151656e510debf8c26f79f24","verified":false,"work_id":null}