{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"p-left\">Again, in diseases the seventh day is that of the crisis; and the\r\nfourteenth, in which nature struggles against the causes of the\r\ndiseases. And a myriad such instances are adduced by Hermippus of\r\nBerytus, in his book <i>On the Number Seven</i>, regarding it as holy.\r\nAnd the blessed David delivers clearly to those who know the mystic\r\naccount of seven and eight, praising thus: “Our years were exercised\r\nlike a spider. The days of our years in them are seventy years; but\r\nif in strength, eighty years. And that will be to reign.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1158\" id=\"FNanchor_1158\">[1158]</a> That,\r\nthen, we may be taught that the world was originated, and not suppose\r\nthat God made it in time, prophecy adds: “This is the book of the\r\ngeneration: also of the things in them, when they were created in the\r\nday that God made heaven and earth.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1159\" id=\"FNanchor_1159\">[1159]</a> For the expression “when\r\nthey were created” intimates an indefinite and dateless production. But\r\nthe expression “in the day that God made,” that is, in and by which God\r\nmade “all things,” and “without which not even one thing was made,”\r\npoints out the activity exerted by the Son. As David says, “This is the\r\nday which the Lord hath made; let us be glad and rejoice in it;”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1160\" id=\"FNanchor_1160\">[1160]</a>\r\nthat is, in consequence of the knowledge imparted by Him, let us\r\ncelebrate the divine festival; for the Word that throws light on things\r\nhidden, and by whom each created thing came into life and being, is\r\ncalled day.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK VI.","CHAPTER XVI. GNOSTIC EXPOSITION OF THE DECALOGUE.","The Fourth Commandment."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_1159","paragraph_id":"pg73020-paragraph-859"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"a16644df827d7be6107bb2665fff6bb3342bbf3234960b96c0b6b4108a9f28fd","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"GEN","chapter":2,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Gen. ii. 4","verse":4,"verse_end":4}],"headings":[],"id":"pg73020-Footnote_1159","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_1159","source_ebook":73020,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_1159\" id=\"Footnote_1159\">[1159]</a> Gen. ii. 4.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"c35077683d75abe553cc6ef5d3ef5a1a978f07dfbcf4bad5c3d56302ad03dc19","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_1159","text_sha256":"0e72641e534a6ccbea63ba236f380104c841c1c2a31bd6d5e5721ad231e7f32c","verified":false,"work_id":null}