{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>And that He calls us chickens the Scripture testifies: “As a hen\r\ngathereth her chickens under her wings.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_184\" id=\"FNanchor_184\">[184]</a> Thus are we the Lord’s\r\nchickens; the Word thus marvellously and mystically describing the\r\nsimplicity of childhood. For sometimes He calls us children, sometimes\r\nchickens, sometimes infants, and at other times sons, and “a new\r\npeople,” and “a recent people.” “And my servants shall be called by\r\na new name”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_185\" id=\"FNanchor_185\">[185]</a> (a new name, He says, fresh and eternal, pure and\r\nsimple, and childlike and true), which shall be blessed on the earth.\r\nAnd again, He figuratively calls us colts unyoked to vice, not broken\r\nin by wickedness; but simple, and bounding joyously to the Father\r\nalone; not such horses “as neigh after their neighbours’ wives, that\r\nare under the yoke, and are female-mad;”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_186\" id=\"FNanchor_186\">[186]</a> but free and new-born,\r\njubilant by means of faith, ready to run to the truth, swift to speed\r\nto salvation, that tread and stamp under foot the things of the world.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","THE INSTRUCTOR.","BOOK I.","CHAPTER V. ALL WHO WALK ACCORDING TO TRUTH ARE CHILDREN OF GOD."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_186","paragraph_id":"pg71937-paragraph-243"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"117febd136c981c7f1b416a3ed1b7db8e112ca8aad79e54f7d8d511b0b8c6e76","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1867,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"JER","chapter":5,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Jer. v. 8","verse":8,"verse_end":8}],"headings":[],"id":"pg71937-Footnote_186","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_186","source_ebook":71937,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_186\" id=\"Footnote_186\">[186]</a> Jer. v. 8.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"8e5c5bc39922dbad2626ac7651c2eb2e3d94cdcbd721f781e9792143ebb1cd03","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/71937/pg71937-images.html#Footnote_186","text_sha256":"39a75c34ac25d908efe86c62d8e32f3648941f5fda34999dfe638f1319f74ed1","verified":false,"work_id":null}