{"author":"Historical editor/translator (individual note author unspecified)","date_end":1894,"date_label":"1894 (historical English edition; transcription printing date uncertain)","date_start":1894,"edition_year":1894,"edition_year_basis":"Original NPNF Series II Volume XI title and copyright, 1894; transcription physical printing year unknown","id":"ws-library-full-note:824d952051aa2f7524da:cite_note-4","is_genuine_commentary_verified":false,"license_url":"https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Reusing_Wikisource_content","public_import_allowed":true,"publication_location":"source-library","record_type":"editorial-footnote","references":[],"rights_approved":true,"section":"Chapter XIV.; original source section: Chapter 14; original book/conference: Book XII., editorial note cite_note-4","semantic_kind_reviewed":false,"source_context":["our Saviour’s words, that it is given to them that ask, and opened to them that knock and found by them that seek; but that the asking, the seeking, and the knocking on our part are insufficient unless the mercy of God gives what we ask, and opens that at which we knock, and enables us to find that which we seek. For He is at hand to bestow all these things, if only the opportunity is given to Him by our good will. For He desires and looks for our perfection and salvation far more than we do ourselves. And the blessed David knew so well that by his own efforts he could not secure the increase of his work and labour, that he entreated with renewed prayers that he might obtain the “direction” of his work from the Lord, saying, “Direct thou the work of our hands over us; yea, the work of our hands do thou direct;” and again: “Confirm, O God, what thou hast wrought in us.”"],"source_library_url":"/library/824d952051aa2f7524da/#ws-library-full-note:824d952051aa2f7524da:cite_note-4","source_url":"https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Nicene_and_Post-Nicene_Fathers:_Series_II/Volume_XI/John_Cassian/The_Twelve_Books/Book_XII/Chapter_14#cite_note-4","translator":"Rev. Edgar C. S. Gibson (M.A.)","verification":{"proof_file":"raw/review/source-library-note-batch-0061/proof-records.jsonl","proof_file_sha256":"7c4407a5986a306f1eaff33bf3f1bf135fc2e65f72270d1b3381ed0616bfbce3","proof_record_id":"ws-library-full-note:824d952051aa2f7524da:cite_note-4"},"verified":true,"work":"The Twelve Books","work_id":"ws-npnf2-11-cassian-e6a590a288e44aa7091b"}