{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">What shall we do, then, brethren? Shall we become\r\nslothful in well-doing, and cease from the practice of love?\r\nGod forbid that any such course should be followed by us!\r\nBut rather let us hasten with all energy and readiness of\r\nmind to perform every good work. For the Creator and\r\nLord of all Himself rejoices in His works. For by His infinitely\r\ngreat power He established the heavens, and by His\r\nincomprehensible wisdom He adorned them. He also divided\r\nthe earth from the water which surrounds it, and fixed it\r\nupon the immoveable foundation of His own will. The\r\nanimals also which are upon it He commanded by His own\r\nword<a id=\"r132\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f132\"><sup>[132]</sup></a> into existence. So likewise, when He had formed the\r\nsea, and the living creatures which are in it, He enclosed them\r\n[within their proper bounds] by His own power. Above all,<a id=\"r133\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f133\"><sup>[133]</sup></a>\r\nwith His holy and undefiled hands He formed man, the most\r\nexcellent [of His creatures], and truly great through the\r\nunderstanding given him—the express likeness of His own\r\nimage. For thus says God: “Let us make man in our\r\nimage, and after our likeness. So God made man; male\r\nand female He created them.”<a id=\"r134\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f134\"><sup>[134]</sup></a> Having thus finished all\r\nthese things, He approved them, and blessed them, and said,\r\n“Increase and multiply.”<a id=\"r135\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f135\"><sup>[135]</sup></a> We see,<a id=\"r136\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f136\"><sup>[136]</sup></a> then, how all righteous\r\nmen have been adorned with good works, and how the Lord\r\nHimself, adorning Himself with His works, rejoiced. Having\r\ntherefore such an example, let us without delay accede\r\nto His will, and let us work the work of righteousness with\r\nour whole strength.</p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE FIRST EPISTLE OF CLEMENT.","THE FIRST EPISTLE OF CLEMENT TO THE CORINTHIANS.","Chap. xxxiii.—But let us not give up the practice of good works and love. God Himself is an example to us of good works."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-77"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"c7166dd5803169abc7c526a1ec78ad55b307a644805c80591f815a3a86a53aa4","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-f136","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":"f136","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f136\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r136\">136</a>. </span>Or, “let us consider.”</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f136","text_sha256":"4f14170bdbca57cbc61dcb3f5828e3843bfea40884c02ed5c3e001c7a289fcc8","verified":false,"work_id":null}