{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">Wherefore, then, my brethren, let us struggle with all\r\nearnestness, knowing that the contest is [in our case] close at\r\nhand, and that many undertake long voyages to strive for a\r\ncorruptible reward;<a id=\"r296\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f296\"><sup>[296]</sup></a> yet all are not crowned, but those only\r\nthat have laboured hard and striven gloriously. Let us\r\ntherefore so strive, that we may all be crowned. Let us run\r\nthe straight<a id=\"r297\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f297\"><sup>[297]</sup></a> course, even the race that is incorruptible; and\r\nlet us in great numbers set out<a id=\"r298\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f298\"><sup>[298]</sup></a> for it, and strive that we\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_60\">60</span>may be crowned. And should we not all be able to obtain\r\nthe crown, let us at least come near to it. We must remember<a id=\"r299\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f299\"><sup>[299]</sup></a>\r\nthat he who strives in the corruptible contest, if he\r\nbe found acting unfairly,<a id=\"r300\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f300\"><sup>[300]</sup></a> is taken away and scourged, and\r\ncast forth from the lists. What then think ye? If one\r\ndoes anything unseemly in the incorruptible contest, what\r\nshall <i>he</i> have to bear? For of those who do not preserve\r\nthe seal<a id=\"r301\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f301\"><sup>[301]</sup></a> [unbroken], [the Scripture] saith, “Their worm\r\nshall not die, and their fire shall not be quenched, and they\r\nshall be a spectacle to all flesh.”<a id=\"r302\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f302\"><sup>[302]</sup></a></p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE SECOND EPISTLE OF CLEMENT.","THE SECOND EPISTLE OF CLEMENT.","Chap. vii.—We must strive in order to be crowned."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-111"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"93dfcae0a470fa1a2c9acd3fd68123e7e76a5adf5cc7f1e60cd0481e236b7bea","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-f301","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":"f301","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f301\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r301\">301</a>. </span>Baptism is probably meant.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f301","text_sha256":"3508ce44b3aab68d675e316484678a7265fbd043ceb55e5664a664c8ea6f1f75","verified":false,"work_id":null}