{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">The ministers of the grace of God have, by the Holy\r\nSpirit, spoken of repentance; and the Lord of all things has\r\nhimself declared with an oath regarding it, “As I live,\r\nsaith the Lord, I desire not the death of the sinner, but\r\nrather his repentance;”<a id=\"r36\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f36\"><sup>[36]</sup></a> adding, moreover, this gracious\r\ndeclaration, “Repent, O house of Israel, of your iniquity.<a id=\"r37\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f37\"><sup>[37]</sup></a>\r\nSay to the children of my people, Though your sins reach\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_13\">13</span>from earth to heaven, and though they be redder<a id=\"r38\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f38\"><sup>[38]</sup></a> than\r\nscarlet, and blacker than sackcloth, yet if ye turn to me with\r\nyour whole heart, and say, Father! I will listen to you, as\r\nto a holy<a id=\"r39\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f39\"><sup>[39]</sup></a> people.” And in another place He speaks thus:\r\n“Wash you, and become clean; put away the wickedness of\r\nyour souls from before mine eyes; cease from your evil\r\nways, and learn to do well; seek out judgment, deliver the\r\noppressed, judge the fatherless, and see that justice is done\r\nto the widow; and come, and let us reason together. He\r\ndeclares, Though your sins be like crimson, I will make them\r\nwhite as snow; though they be like scarlet, I will whiten\r\nthem like wool. And if ye be willing and obey me, ye\r\nshall eat the good of the land; but if ye refuse, and will\r\nnot hearken unto me, the sword shall devour you, for the\r\nmouth of the Lord hath spoken these things.”<a id=\"r40\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f40\"><sup>[40]</sup></a> Desiring,\r\ntherefore, that all His beloved should be partakers of repentance,\r\nHe has, by His almighty will, established [these\r\ndeclarations].</p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE FIRST EPISTLE OF CLEMENT.","THE FIRST EPISTLE OF CLEMENT TO THE CORINTHIANS.","Chap. viii.—Continuation respecting repentance."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-52"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"237eb5d0e2dd0a0ef11cbe44db96db085dbd483d5596c88fd5c0d7237aa41010","edition_title":"The writings of the Apostolic Fathers","edition_translators":["Alexander Roberts","James Donaldson","Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1870,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"EZK","chapter":33,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Ezek. xxxiii. 11","verse":11,"verse_end":11}],"headings":[],"id":"pg77576-f36","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":"f36","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f36\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r36\">36</a>. </span><abbr title=\"Ezekiel\">Ezek.</abbr> <abbr title=\"thirty-three\">xxxiii.</abbr> 11.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f36","text_sha256":"41a8c4ad102e7a91d2a497c61b0f39aacd7e56dac59c5a9e6aef36a5476da756","verified":false,"work_id":null}