{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>But why are you not helped when persecuted? say they. What wrong is\r\ndone us, as far as we are concerned, in being released by death to\r\ngo to the Lord, and so undergoing a<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_175\">[175]</span> change of life, as if a change\r\nfrom one time of life to another? Did we think rightly, we should feel\r\nobliged to those who have afforded the means for speedy departure, if\r\nit is for love that we bear witness; and if not, we should appear to\r\nthe multitude to be base men. Had they also known the truth, all would\r\nhave bounded on to the way, and there would have been no choice. But\r\nour faith, being the light of the world, reproves unbelief. “Should\r\nAnytus and Melitus kill me, they will not hurt me in the least; for I\r\ndo not think it right for the better to be hurt by the worse,” [says\r\nSocrates]. So that each one of us may with confidence say, “The Lord\r\nis my helper; I will not fear: what shall man do to me?”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_567\" id=\"FNanchor_567\">[567]</a> “For the\r\nsouls of the righteous are in the hand of the Lord, and no plague shall\r\ntouch them.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_568\" id=\"FNanchor_568\">[568]</a></p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK IV.","CHAPTER XI. THE OBJECTION, WHY DO YOU SUFFER IF GOD CARES FOR YOU, ANSWERED."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_567","paragraph_id":"pg73020-paragraph-224"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"0582629aaef63a9d5404bc92be0f08d8dbb92f8dadfcfa8c43723c07947b945b","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"PSA","chapter":118,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Ps. cxviii. 6","verse":6,"verse_end":6}],"headings":[],"id":"pg73020-Footnote_567","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_567","source_ebook":73020,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_567\" id=\"Footnote_567\">[567]</a> Ps. cxviii. 6.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"c35077683d75abe553cc6ef5d3ef5a1a978f07dfbcf4bad5c3d56302ad03dc19","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_567","text_sha256":"18a20f1a9943df01f9ced619fbf359ca3626c81e04b8c6ec346985df0187a1a3","verified":false,"work_id":null}