{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>The first mode of the Lord’s operation mentioned by us is an exhibition\r\nof the recompense resulting from piety. Of the very great number\r\nof testimonies that there are, I shall adduce one, thus summarily\r\nexpressed by the prophet David: “Who shall ascend to the hill of the\r\nLord, or who shall stand in His holy place? He who is guiltless in\r\nhis hands, and pure in his heart; who hath not lifted up his soul\r\nto vanity, or sworn deceitfully to his neighbour. He shall receive\r\nblessing from the Lord, and mercy from God his Saviour. This is the\r\ngeneration of them that seek the Lord, that seek the face of the God of\r\nJacob.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1252\" id=\"FNanchor_1252\">[1252]</a> The prophet has, in my opinion, concisely indicated the\r\nGnostic. David, as appears, has cursorily demonstrated the Saviour to\r\nbe God, by calling Him “the face of the God of Jacob,” who preached and\r\ntaught concerning the Spirit. Wherefore also the apostle designates as\r\n“the express image (χαρακτῆρα) of the glory of the Father”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1253\" id=\"FNanchor_1253\">[1253]</a> the\r\nSon, who taught the truth respecting God, and expressed the fact that\r\nthe Almighty is the one and only God and Father, “whom no man knoweth\r\nbut the Son, and he to whom the Son shall reveal Him.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1254\" id=\"FNanchor_1254\">[1254]</a> That God\r\nis one is intimated by those “who seek the face of the God of Jacob;”\r\nwhom being the only God, our Saviour and God characterizes as the Good\r\nFather. And “the generation of those that seek Him” is the elect race,\r\ndevoted to inquiry after knowledge. Wherefore also the apostle says, “I\r\nshall profit you nothing, unless I speak to you, either by revelation,\r\nor by knowledge, or by prophecy, or by doctrine.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1255\" id=\"FNanchor_1255\">[1255]</a></p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK VII.","CHAPTER X. STEPS TO PERFECTION."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_1252","paragraph_id":"pg73020-paragraph-1049"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"7a6601a514965e7e35496b7d6ebca8a394a1c151f6739f7c7361536c25573958","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"PSA","chapter":24,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Ps. xxiv. 3–6","verse":3,"verse_end":6}],"headings":[],"id":"pg73020-Footnote_1252","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 1869 English translation; translator died 1875. Electronic transcription subject to Project Gutenberg reuse terms.","source_anchor":"Footnote_1252","source_ebook":73020,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_1252\" id=\"Footnote_1252\">[1252]</a> Ps. xxiv. 3–6.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"c35077683d75abe553cc6ef5d3ef5a1a978f07dfbcf4bad5c3d56302ad03dc19","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_1252","text_sha256":"07ebc39d9961cf35ac479c813b6c11ca11b0f23e30fd82e3a18f1554317e2028","verified":false,"work_id":null}