{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c006\">Owing, dear brethren, to the sudden and successive calamitous\r\nevents which have happened to ourselves, we feel that\r\nwe have been somewhat tardy in turning our attention to the\r\npoints respecting which you consulted us; and especially to\r\nthat shameful and detestable sedition, utterly abhorrent to the\r\nelect of God, which a few rash and self-confident persons\r\nhave kindled to such a pitch of frenzy, that your venerable\r\nand illustrious name, worthy to be universally loved, has\r\nsuffered grievous injury.<a id=\"r2\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f2\"><sup>[2]</sup></a> For who ever dwelt even for a\r\nshort time among you, and did not find your faith to be as\r\nfruitful of virtue as it was firmly established?<a id=\"r3\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f3\"><sup>[3]</sup></a> Who did\r\nnot admire the sobriety and moderation of your godliness in\r\nChrist? Who did not proclaim the magnificence of your\r\nhabitual hospitality? And who did not rejoice over your\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_8\">8</span>perfect and well-grounded knowledge? For ye did all things\r\nwithout respect of persons, and walked in the commandments\r\nof God, being obedient to those who had the rule over you,\r\nand giving all fitting honour to the presbyters among you.\r\nYe enjoined young men to be of a sober and serious mind,\r\nye instructed your wives to do all things with a blameless,\r\nbecoming, and pure conscience, loving their husbands as in\r\nduty bound; and ye taught them that, living in the rule of\r\nobedience, they should manage their household affairs becomingly,\r\nand be in every respect marked by discretion.</p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE FIRST EPISTLE OF CLEMENT.","THE FIRST EPISTLE OF CLEMENT TO THE CORINTHIANS.","Chap. i.—The Salutation. Praise of the Corinthians before the breaking forth of schism among them."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-45"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"da60e6aa497b252357aed656350a53d34b6285bc7f59d589ad0f31a1131cb568","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-f3","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":"f3","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f3\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r3\">3</a>. </span>Literally, “did not prove your all-virtuous and firm faith.”</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f3","text_sha256":"6511a2ae2c700d30c70e647c8faebd86050a7686dec558f05725ce7e61b5f755","verified":false,"work_id":null}