{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>The prophetic spirit also distinguishes us as children. “Plucking,”\r\nit is said, “branches of olives or palms, the children went forth\r\nto meet the Lord, and cried, saying, Hosanna to the Son of David!\r\nBlessed is He that cometh in the name of the Lord;”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_175\" id=\"FNanchor_175\">[175]</a> light, and\r\nglory, and praise, with<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_123\">[123]</span> supplication to the Lord: for this is the\r\nmeaning of the expression Hosanna when rendered into Greek. And the\r\nScripture appears to me, in allusion to the prophecy just mentioned,\r\nreproachfully to upbraid the thoughtless: “Have ye never read, Out of\r\nthe mouths of babes and sucklings Thou hast perfected praise?”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_176\" id=\"FNanchor_176\">[176]</a>\r\nIn this way the Lord in the Gospels spurs on His disciples, urging\r\nthem to attend to Him, hastening as He was to the Father; rendering\r\nHis hearers more eager by the intimation that after a little He was to\r\ndepart, and showing them that it was requisite that they should take\r\nmore unsparing advantage of the truth than ever before, as the Word\r\nwas to ascend to heaven. Again, therefore, He calls them children;\r\nfor He says, “Children, a little while I am with you.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_177\" id=\"FNanchor_177\">[177]</a> And,\r\nagain, He likens the kingdom of heaven to children sitting in the\r\nmarket-places and saying, “We have piped unto you, and ye have not\r\ndanced; we have mourned, and ye have not lamented;”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_178\" id=\"FNanchor_178\">[178]</a> and whatever\r\nelse He added agreeably thereto. And it is not alone the gospel that\r\nholds these sentiments. Prophecy also agrees with it. David accordingly\r\nsays, “<i>Praise, O children, the Lord; praise the name of the\r\nLord.</i>”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_179\" id=\"FNanchor_179\">[179]</a> It says also by Esaias, “<i>Here am I, and the children\r\nthat God hath given me.</i>”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_180\" id=\"FNanchor_180\">[180]</a> Are you amazed, then, to hear that\r\nmen who belong to the nations are sons in the Lord’s sight? You do not\r\nin that case appear to give ear to the Attic dialect, from which you\r\nmay learn that beautiful, comely, and freeborn young maidens are still\r\ncalled παιδίσκαι, and servant-girls παιδισκάρια; and that those last\r\nalso are, on account of the bloom of youth, called by the flattering\r\nname of young maidens.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","THE INSTRUCTOR.","BOOK I.","CHAPTER V. ALL WHO WALK ACCORDING TO TRUTH ARE CHILDREN OF GOD."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_176","paragraph_id":"pg71937-paragraph-241"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"740e7f8b8ce6046366deacd14fddc9e79f88454db889fcac956d1c1f3cbf06b4","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1867,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"MAT","chapter":21,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Matt. xxi. 16","verse":16,"verse_end":16},{"book":"PSA","chapter":8,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Ps. viii. 3","verse":3,"verse_end":3}],"headings":[],"id":"pg71937-Footnote_176","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 1867 English translation; translator died 1875. Electronic transcription subject to Project Gutenberg reuse terms.","source_anchor":"Footnote_176","source_ebook":71937,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_176\" id=\"Footnote_176\">[176]</a> Matt. xxi. 16; Ps. viii. 3.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"8e5c5bc39922dbad2626ac7651c2eb2e3d94cdcbd721f781e9792143ebb1cd03","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/71937/pg71937-images.html#Footnote_176","text_sha256":"a1013bf584c46a2e1254dc9c12bffaf7eb5d449234ccbad9375e3416f21e6ab6","verified":false,"work_id":null}