{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>The sensible types of these, then, are the sounds we pronounce.\r\nThus the Lord Himself is called “Alpha and Omega, the beginning and\r\nthe end,”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1156\" id=\"FNanchor_1156\">[1156]</a> “by whom all things were made, and without whom not\r\neven one thing was made.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1157\" id=\"FNanchor_1157\">[1157]</a> God’s resting is not, then, as some\r\nconceive, that God ceased from doing. For, being good, if He should\r\never cease from doing good, then would He cease from being God, which\r\nit is sacrilege even to say. The resting is, therefore, the ordering\r\nthat the order of created things should be preserved inviolate, and\r\nthat each of the creatures should cease from the ancient disorder.\r\nFor the creations on the different days followed in a most important\r\nsuccession; so that all things brought into existence might have honour\r\nfrom priority, created together in thought, but not being of<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_389\">[389]</span> equal\r\nworth. Nor was the creation of each signified by the voice, inasmuch\r\nas the creative work is said to have made them at once. For something\r\nmust needs have been named first. Wherefore those things were announced\r\nfirst, from which came those that were second, all things being\r\noriginated together from one essence by one power. For the will of God\r\nwas one, in one identity. And how could creation take place in time,\r\nseeing time was born along with the things which exist?</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK VI.","CHAPTER XVI. GNOSTIC EXPOSITION OF THE DECALOGUE.","The Fourth Commandment."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_1157","paragraph_id":"pg73020-paragraph-854"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"099d349c171764d6b2b79a99106de6066747fe321622860d35f8406ee1d0da7d","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"JHN","chapter":1,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"John i. 3","verse":3,"verse_end":3}],"headings":[],"id":"pg73020-Footnote_1157","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_1157","source_ebook":73020,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_1157\" id=\"Footnote_1157\">[1157]</a> John i. 3.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"c35077683d75abe553cc6ef5d3ef5a1a978f07dfbcf4bad5c3d56302ad03dc19","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_1157","text_sha256":"a2b5b8f86ab2f22d26fd27b659591c10f0904c030a367b373487888b6c33f5d8","verified":false,"work_id":null}