{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>The absence of respect of persons in God is not then in time, but\r\nfrom eternity. Nor had His beneficence a beginning; nor any more is\r\nit limited to places or persons. For His beneficence is not confined\r\nto parts. “Open ye the gates of righteousness,” it is said; “entering\r\ninto them, I will confess to the Lord. This is the gate of the Lord.\r\nThe righteous shall enter by it.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1013\" id=\"FNanchor_1013\">[1013]</a> Explaining the prophet’s\r\nsaying, Barnabas adds, “There being many gates open, that which is in\r\nrighteousness is the gate which is in Christ, by which all who enter\r\nare blessed.” Bordering on the same meaning is also the following\r\nprophetic utterance: “The Lord is on many<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_341\">[341]</span> waters;”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1014\" id=\"FNanchor_1014\">[1014]</a> not the\r\ndifferent covenants alone, but the modes of teaching, those among the\r\nGreek and those among the Barbarians, conducing to righteousness.\r\nAnd already clearly David, bearing testimony to the truth, sings,\r\n“Let sinners be turned into Hades, and all the nations that forget\r\nGod.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1015\" id=\"FNanchor_1015\">[1015]</a> They forget, plainly, Him whom they formerly remembered,\r\nand dismiss Him whom they knew previous to forgetting Him. There was\r\nthen a dim knowledge of God also among the nations. So much for those\r\npoints.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK VI.","CHAPTER VIII. PHILOSOPHY IS KNOWLEDGE GIVEN BY GOD."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_1014","paragraph_id":"pg73020-paragraph-730"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"92bbf9f9ca52f3e94750094c131db191d0adefa9a8564e5e3b85ec9749799e2e","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"PSA","chapter":29,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Ps. xxix. 3","verse":3,"verse_end":3}],"headings":[],"id":"pg73020-Footnote_1014","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_1014","source_ebook":73020,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_1014\" id=\"Footnote_1014\">[1014]</a> Ps. xxix. 3.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"c35077683d75abe553cc6ef5d3ef5a1a978f07dfbcf4bad5c3d56302ad03dc19","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_1014","text_sha256":"38928d16d8e5e041773ef411742a9f6b3eb9c9547df20a13b88fb0cc301f32dd","verified":false,"work_id":null}