{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">Wherefore, let us yield obedience to His excellent and\r\nglorious will; and imploring His mercy and loving-kindness,\r\nwhile we forsake all fruitless labours,<a id=\"r41\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f41\"><sup>[41]</sup></a> and strife, and envy,\r\nwhich leads to death, let us turn and have recourse to His\r\ncompassions. Let us stedfastly contemplate those who have\r\nperfectly ministered to his excellent glory. Let us take (for\r\ninstance) Enoch, who, being found righteous in obedience,\r\nwas translated, and death was never known to happen to him.<a id=\"r42\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f42\"><sup>[42]</sup></a>\r\nNoah, being found faithful, preached regeneration to the\r\nworld through his ministry; and the Lord saved by him the\r\nanimals which, with one accord, entered into the ark.</p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE FIRST EPISTLE OF CLEMENT.","THE FIRST EPISTLE OF CLEMENT TO THE CORINTHIANS.","Chap. ix.—Examples of the saints."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-53"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"39442898216ca097749737cff1db3d6e54d5cc045dd1d44e7977e0612fc4281d","edition_title":"The writings of the Apostolic Fathers","edition_translators":["Alexander Roberts","James Donaldson","Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1870,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"GEN","chapter":5,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Gen. v. 24","verse":24,"verse_end":24},{"book":"HEB","chapter":11,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Heb. xi. 5","verse":5,"verse_end":5}],"headings":[],"id":"pg77576-f42","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":"f42","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f42\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r42\">42</a>. </span><abbr title=\"Genesis\">Gen.</abbr> <abbr title=\"five\">v.</abbr> 24; <abbr title=\"Hebrews\">Heb.</abbr> <abbr title=\"eleven\">xi.</abbr> 5. Literally, “and his death was not found.”</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f42","text_sha256":"2350edfaf0a7837617481ed56b8888176eda8ed863dcf9f2f5ee507513ab7cbc","verified":false,"work_id":null}