{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>For the persuasive style of sentence in one form becomes hortatory, and\r\nin another dehortatory. So also the panegyrical in one form becomes\r\ninculpatory, and in another laudatory. And in these exercises the\r\nInstructor, the Just One, who has proposed our advantage as His aim, is\r\nchiefly occupied. But the inculpatory and dehortatory forms of speech\r\nhave been already shown us; and we must now handle the persuasive and\r\nthe laudatory, and, as on a beam, balance the equal scales of justice.\r\nThe exhortation to what is useful, the Instructor employs by Solomon,\r\nto the following effect: “I exhort you, O men; and I utter my voice to\r\nthe sons of men. Hear me; for I will speak of excellent things;”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_384\" id=\"FNanchor_384\">[384]</a><span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_175\">[175]</span>\r\nand so on. And He counsels what is salutary: for counsel has for its\r\nend, choosing or refusing a certain course; as He does by David, when\r\nHe says, “Blessed is the man who walketh not in the counsels of the\r\nungodly, and standeth not in the way of sinners, and sitteth not in the\r\nchair of pestilences; but his will is in the law of the Lord.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_385\" id=\"FNanchor_385\">[385]</a>\r\nAnd there are three departments of counsel: That which takes examples\r\nfrom past times; as what the Hebrews suffered when they worshipped the\r\ngolden calf, and what they suffered when they committed fornication,\r\nand the like. The second, whose meaning is understood from the present\r\ntimes, as being apprehended by perception; as it was said to those who\r\nasked the Lord, “If He was the Christ, or shall we wait for another?\r\nGo and tell John, the blind receive their sight, the deaf hear, the\r\nlepers are cleansed, the dead are raised up; and blessed is he who\r\nshall not be offended in me.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_386\" id=\"FNanchor_386\">[386]</a> Such was that which David said when\r\nhe prophesied, “As we have heard, so have we seen.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_387\" id=\"FNanchor_387\">[387]</a> And the third\r\ndepartment of counsel consists of what is future, by which we are\r\nbidden guard against what is to happen; as also that was said, “They\r\nthat fall into sins shall be cast into outer darkness, where there\r\nshall be wailing and gnashing of teeth,”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_388\" id=\"FNanchor_388\">[388]</a> and the like. So that\r\nfrom these things it is clear that the Lord, going the round of all the\r\nmethods of curative treatment, calls humanity to salvation.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","THE INSTRUCTOR.","BOOK I.","CHAPTER X. THAT THE SAME GOD, BY THE SAME WORD, RESTRAINS FROM SIN BY THREATENING, AND SAVES HUMANITY BY EXHORTING."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_388","paragraph_id":"pg71937-paragraph-320"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"6e7b71e555601da99972a17f7167b4c74dd15b5fad42f6ad16c305160a06a1c6","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1867,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"MAT","chapter":22,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Matt. xxii. 13","verse":13,"verse_end":13}],"headings":[],"id":"pg71937-Footnote_388","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 1867 English translation; translator died 1875. Electronic transcription subject to Project Gutenberg reuse terms.","source_anchor":"Footnote_388","source_ebook":71937,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_388\" id=\"Footnote_388\">[388]</a> Matt. xxii. 13, xxv. 30.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"8e5c5bc39922dbad2626ac7651c2eb2e3d94cdcbd721f781e9792143ebb1cd03","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/71937/pg71937-images.html#Footnote_388","text_sha256":"974799d713937d53d83efda4cae6a61e0b19b93d061487cfc59ac3180523202e","verified":false,"work_id":null}