{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>But the rest, round whom the world’s growths have fastened, as the\r\nrocks on the sea-shore are covered over with seaweed, make light of\r\nimmortality, like the old man of Ithaca, eagerly longing to see, not\r\nthe truth, not the fatherland in heaven, not the true light, but smoke.\r\nBut godliness, that makes man as far as can be like God, designates God\r\nas our suitable teacher, who alone can worthily assimilate man to God.\r\nThis teaching the apostle knows as truly divine. “Thou, O Timothy,”\r\nhe says, “from a child hast known the holy letters, which are able\r\nto make thee wise unto salvation, through faith that is in Christ\r\nJesus.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_109\" id=\"FNanchor_109\">[109]</a> For truly holy are those letters that sanctify and deify;\r\nand the writings or volumes that consist of those holy letters and\r\nsyllables, the same apostle consequently calls “inspired of God, being\r\nprofitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction\r\nin righteousness, that the man of God may be perfect, thoroughly\r\nfurnished to every good work.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_110\" id=\"FNanchor_110\">[110]</a> No one will be so impressed by the\r\nexhortations of any of the saints, as he is by the words of the Lord\r\nHimself, the lover of man. For this, and nothing but this, is His only\r\nwork—the salvation of man. Therefore He Himself, urging them on to\r\nsalvation, cries, “The kingdom of heaven is at hand.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_111\" id=\"FNanchor_111\">[111]</a> Those men\r\nthat draw near through fear, He converts. Thus also the apostle of\r\nthe Lord, beseeching the Macedonians, becomes the interpreter of the\r\ndivine voice, when he says, “The Lord is at hand; take care that ye be\r\nnot apprehended empty.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_112\" id=\"FNanchor_112\">[112]</a> But are ye so devoid of fear, or rather\r\nof faith, as not to believe the Lord Himself, or Paul, who in Christ’s\r\nstead thus entreats: “Taste and see that Christ is God?”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_113\" id=\"FNanchor_113\">[113]</a> Faith\r\nwill lead you in; experience will teach you; Scripture will train you,\r\nfor it says, “Come hither, O children; listen to<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_84\">[84]</span> me, and I will teach\r\nyou the fear of the Lord.” Then, as to those who already believe, it\r\nbriefly adds, “What man is he that desireth life, that loveth to see\r\ngood days?”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_114\" id=\"FNanchor_114\">[114]</a> It is we, we shall say—we who are the devotees of\r\ngood, we who eagerly desire good things. Hear, then, ye who are far\r\noff, hear ye who are near: the word has not been hidden from any; light\r\nis common, it shines “on all men.” No one is a Cimmerian in respect to\r\nthe word. Let us haste to salvation, to regeneration; let us who are\r\nmany haste that we may be brought together into one love, according\r\nto the union of the essential unity; and let us, by being made good,\r\nconformably follow after union, seeking after the good Monad.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","EXHORTATION TO THE HEATHEN.","CHAPTER IX. “THAT THOSE GRIEVOUSLY SIN WHO DESPISE OR NEGLECT GOD’S GRACIOUS CALLING.”"],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_113","paragraph_id":"pg71937-paragraph-196"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"62f3e9db00b3cc29824206c18ebb4fdc2d3a2f142e8c961de032e3ce86187080","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1867,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"PSA","chapter":34,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Ps. xxxiv. 8","verse":8,"verse_end":8}],"headings":[],"id":"pg71937-Footnote_113","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. 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