{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">Whosoever will candidly consider each particular, will\r\nrecognise the greatness of the gifts which were given by\r\nhim.<a id=\"r128\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f128\"><sup>[128]</sup></a> For from him<a id=\"r129\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f129\"><sup>[129]</sup></a> have sprung the priests and all the\r\nLevites who minister at the altar of God. From him also\r\n[was descended] our Lord Jesus Christ according to the\r\nflesh.<a id=\"r130\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f130\"><sup>[130]</sup></a> From him [arose] kings, princes, and rulers of the\r\nrace of Judah. Nor are his other tribes in small glory, inasmuch\r\nas God had promised, “Thy seed shall be as the stars\r\nof heaven.”<a id=\"r131\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f131\"><sup>[131]</sup></a> All these, therefore, were highly honoured,\r\nand made great, not for their own sake, or for their own\r\nworks, or for the righteousness which they wrought, but\r\nthrough the operation of His will. And we, too, being\r\ncalled by His will in Christ Jesus, are not justified by ourselves,\r\nnor by our own wisdom, or understanding, or godliness,\r\nor works which we have wrought in holiness of heart;\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_30\">30</span>but by that faith through which, from the beginning, Almighty\r\nGod has justified all men; to whom be glory for\r\never and ever. Amen.</p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE FIRST EPISTLE OF CLEMENT.","THE FIRST EPISTLE OF CLEMENT TO THE CORINTHIANS.","Chap. xxxii.—We are justified not by our own works, but by faith."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-76"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"325c43c6a809bb3e3086fad5408fee598be32d511f06de80d95e3b64063d3d2b","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-f128","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":"f128","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f128\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r128\">128</a>. </span>The meaning is here very doubtful. Some translate, “the gifts\r\nwhich were given to Jacob by Him,” <abbr class=\"spell\"><i>i.e.</i></abbr> God.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f128","text_sha256":"b4fe33f6aaf146ffe9fb61cd0ad1dc4febdcaec72e883db26a7f4f8ad94736e3","verified":false,"work_id":null}