{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Reproof is the bringing forward of sin, laying it before one. This\r\nform of instruction He employs as in the highest degree necessary, by\r\nreason of the feebleness of the faith of many. For He says by Esaias,\r\n“Ye have forsaken the Lord, and have provoked the Holy One of Israel\r\nto anger.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_340\" id=\"FNanchor_340\">[340]</a> And He says also by Jeremiah: “Heaven was astonished\r\nat this, and the earth shuddered exceedingly. For my people have\r\ncommitted two evils; they have forsaken me, the fountain of living\r\nwaters, and have hewn out to themselves broken cisterns, which will\r\nnot be able to hold water.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_341\" id=\"FNanchor_341\">[341]</a> And again, by the same: “Jerusalem\r\nhath sinned a sin; therefore it became commotion. All that glorified\r\nher dishonoured her, when they saw her baseness.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_342\" id=\"FNanchor_342\">[342]</a> And He uses the\r\nbitter and biting<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_343\" id=\"FNanchor_343\">[343]</a> language of reproof in His consolations<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_167\">[167]</span> by\r\nSolomon, tacitly alluding to the love for children that characterizes\r\nHis instruction: “My son, despise not thou the chastening of the Lord;\r\nnor faint when thou art rebuked of Him: for whom the Lord loveth He\r\nchasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom He receiveth;”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_344\" id=\"FNanchor_344\">[344]</a> “For a man\r\nwho is a sinner escapes reproof.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_345\" id=\"FNanchor_345\">[345]</a> Consequently, therefore, the\r\nScripture says, “Let the righteous reprove and correct me; but let not\r\nthe oil of the sinner anoint my head.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_346\" id=\"FNanchor_346\">[346]</a></p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","THE INSTRUCTOR.","BOOK I.","CHAPTER IX. THAT IT IS THE PREROGATIVE OF THE SAME POWER TO BE BENEFICENT AND TO PUNISH JUSTLY. ALSO THE MANNER OF THE INSTRUCTION OF THE LOGOS."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_345","paragraph_id":"pg71937-paragraph-303"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"b1023bc29369909bf5edeecb735ea417f11e8bc3769189bb4eba738ce6f9ae06","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1867,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"SIR","chapter":32,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Ecclus. xxxii. 21","verse":21,"verse_end":21}],"headings":[],"id":"pg71937-Footnote_345","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_345","source_ebook":71937,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_345\" id=\"Footnote_345\">[345]</a> Ecclus. xxxii. 21.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"8e5c5bc39922dbad2626ac7651c2eb2e3d94cdcbd721f781e9792143ebb1cd03","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/71937/pg71937-images.html#Footnote_345","text_sha256":"7707fc97c168e779d762c901d60c7564e05aea84d3a1d62c46d46b5f8becbd71","verified":false,"work_id":null}