{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">Let us cleave then to His blessing, and consider what are\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_29\">29</span>the means<a id=\"r122\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f122\"><sup>[122]</sup></a> of possessing it. Let us think<a id=\"r123\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f123\"><sup>[123]</sup></a> over the things\r\nwhich have taken place from the beginning. For what\r\nreason was our father Abraham blessed? was it not because\r\nhe wrought righteousness and truth through faith?<a id=\"r124\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f124\"><sup>[124]</sup></a> Isaac,\r\nwith perfect confidence, as if knowing what was to happen,<a id=\"r125\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f125\"><sup>[125]</sup></a>\r\ncheerfully yielded himself as a sacrifice.<a id=\"r126\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f126\"><sup>[126]</sup></a> Jacob, through\r\nreason<a id=\"r127\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f127\"><sup>[127]</sup></a> of his brother, went forth with humility from his\r\nown land, and came to Laban and served him; and there\r\nwas given to him the sceptre of the twelve tribes of Israel.</p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE FIRST EPISTLE OF CLEMENT.","THE FIRST EPISTLE OF CLEMENT TO THE CORINTHIANS.","Chap. xxxi.—Let us see by what means we may obtain the divine blessing."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-75"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"5b8744da534c7689af7a1a4a187644fc2de0b797b4b996ce61be8c56957fe69b","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-f123","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":"f123","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f123\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r123\">123</a>. </span>Literally, “unroll.”</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f123","text_sha256":"1e9f039410e8347d544e215211e6111f58e65a7495ba1f33c5db36021e029e7d","verified":false,"work_id":null}