{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>And not only the Platonists, but the Stoics, say that assent is in\r\nour own power. All opinion then, and judgment, and supposition, and\r\nknowledge, by which we live and have perpetual intercourse with the\r\nhuman race, is an assent; which is nothing else than faith. And\r\nunbelief being defection from faith, shows both assent and faith to be\r\npossessed of power; for non-existence cannot be called privation. And\r\nif you consider the truth, you will find man naturally misled so as to\r\ngive assent to what is false, though possessing the resources necessary\r\nfor belief in the truth. “The virtue, then, that encloses the church\r\nin its grasp,” as the Shepherd says,<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_117\" id=\"FNanchor_117\">[117]</a> “is Faith, by which the\r\nelect of God are saved; and that which acts the man is Self-restraint.\r\nAnd these are followed by Simplicity, Knowledge, Innocence, Decorum,\r\nLove,” and all<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_35\">[35]</span> these are the daughters of Faith. And again, “Faith\r\nleads the way, fear upbuilds, and love perfects.” Accordingly he<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_118\" id=\"FNanchor_118\">[118]</a>\r\nsays, the Lord is to be feared in order to edification, but not the\r\ndevil to destruction. And again, the works of the Lord—that is, His\r\ncommandments—are to be loved and done; but the works of the devil are\r\nto be dreaded and not done. For the fear of God trains and restores to\r\nlove; but the fear of the works of the devil has hatred dwelling along\r\nwith it. The same also says “that repentance is high intelligence. For\r\nhe that repents of what he did, no longer does or says as he did. But\r\nby torturing himself for his sins, he benefits his soul. Forgiveness of\r\nsins is therefore different from repentance; but both show what is in\r\nour power.”</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK II.","CHAPTER XII. TWOFOLD FAITH."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_118","paragraph_id":"pg73020-paragraph-62"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"330e3382829abd8810b39b788244d7b7f422e53aba2577d69771a8902b313586","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg73020-Footnote_118","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_118","source_ebook":73020,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_118\" id=\"Footnote_118\">[118]</a> See <i>Pastor of Hermas</i>, book ii. Commandt. iv. ch.\r\nii., for the sense of this passage.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"c35077683d75abe553cc6ef5d3ef5a1a978f07dfbcf4bad5c3d56302ad03dc19","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_118","text_sha256":"1f9dd9685f6bf555bc2c55a17b3edbeb4883d40195fd2ab6e901a7c8fd44d3da","verified":false,"work_id":null}