{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"drop-cap p-left\">At this stage some rise up, saying that the Lord, by reason of the rod,\r\nand threatening, and fear, is not good; misapprehending, as appears,\r\nthe scripture which says, “And he that feareth the Lord will turn to\r\nhis heart;”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_288\" id=\"FNanchor_288\">[288]</a> and most of all, oblivious of His love, in that for\r\nus He became man. For more suitably to Him, the prophet prays in these\r\nwords: “Remember us, for we are dust;”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_289\" id=\"FNanchor_289\">[289]</a> that is, Sympathize with\r\nus; for Thou knowest from personal experience of suffering the weakness\r\nof the flesh. In this respect, therefore, the Lord the Instructor is\r\nmost good and unimpeachable, sympathizing as He does from the exceeding\r\ngreatness of His love with the nature of each man. “For there is\r\nnothing which the Lord hates.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_290\" id=\"FNanchor_290\">[290]</a> For assuredly He does not hate\r\nanything, and yet wish that which He hates to exist. Nor does He wish\r\nanything not to exist, and yet become the cause of existence to that\r\nwhich He wishes not to exist. Nor does He wish anything not to exist\r\nwhich yet exists. If, then, the Word hates anything, He does not wish\r\nit to exist. But nothing exists, the cause of whose existence is not\r\nsupplied by God. Nothing, then, is hated by God, nor yet by the Word.\r\nFor both are one—that is, God. For He has said, “In the beginning the\r\nWord was in God, and the Word was God.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_291\" id=\"FNanchor_291\">[291]</a> If then He hates none\r\nof the things which He has made, it follows that He loves them. Much\r\nmore than the rest, and<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_156\">[156]</span> with reason, will He love man, the noblest of\r\nall objects created by Him, and a God-loving being. Therefore God is\r\nloving; consequently the Word is loving.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","THE INSTRUCTOR.","BOOK I.","CHAPTER VIII. AGAINST THOSE WHO THINK THAT WHAT IS JUST IS NOT GOOD."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_291","paragraph_id":"pg71937-paragraph-281"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"2920abb5739e85f7305b5c0c1cb2cdcd52a9d013a84da7bd9c38fa84f760455c","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1867,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"JHN","chapter":1,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"John i. 1","verse":1,"verse_end":1}],"headings":[],"id":"pg71937-Footnote_291","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_291","source_ebook":71937,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_291\" id=\"Footnote_291\">[291]</a> John i. 1.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"8e5c5bc39922dbad2626ac7651c2eb2e3d94cdcbd721f781e9792143ebb1cd03","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/71937/pg71937-images.html#Footnote_291","text_sha256":"cddb4cd485eff880134b13abbd4ede4a7b92a2a8b6132442f205c2b9d01ab2ad","verified":false,"work_id":null}