{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">Ye understand, beloved, ye understand well the sacred\r\nScriptures, and ye have looked very earnestly into the oracles\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_45\">45</span>of God. Call then these things to your remembrance. When\r\nMoses went up into the mount, and abode there, with fasting\r\nand humiliation, forty days and forty nights, the Lord said\r\nunto him, “Moses, Moses, get thee down quickly from hence;\r\nfor thy people whom thou didst bring out of the land of\r\nEgypt have committed iniquity. They have speedily departed\r\nfrom the way in which I commanded them to walk, and have\r\nmade to themselves molten images.”<a id=\"r233\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f233\"><sup>[233]</sup></a> And the Lord said\r\nunto him, “I have spoken to thee once and again, saying, I\r\nhave seen this people, and, behold, it is a stiff-necked people:\r\nlet me destroy them, and blot out their name from under\r\nheaven; and I will make thee a great and wonderful nation,\r\nand one much more numerous than this.”<a id=\"r234\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f234\"><sup>[234]</sup></a> But Moses said,\r\n“Far be it from Thee, Lord: pardon the sin of this people;\r\nelse blot me also out of the book of the living.”<a id=\"r235\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f235\"><sup>[235]</sup></a> O marvellous<a id=\"r236\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f236\"><sup>[236]</sup></a>\r\nlove! O insuperable perfection! The servant speaks\r\nfreely to his Lord, and asks forgiveness for the people, or begs\r\nthat he himself might perish<a id=\"r237\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f237\"><sup>[237]</sup></a> along with them.</p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE FIRST EPISTLE OF CLEMENT.","THE FIRST EPISTLE OF CLEMENT TO THE CORINTHIANS.","Chap. liii.—The love of Moses towards his people."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-97"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"cf917deae9ad698b414b5bf9b18e196e3581db883c08b80c1a1141d186560483","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-f237","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":"f237","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f237\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r237\">237</a>. </span>Literally, “be wiped out.”</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f237","text_sha256":"7b7692a2b30096cf05d74d8000e10a916b4e4bb7d3c4066b0ede2d1bf666ca21","verified":false,"work_id":null}