{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Others he figuratively calls wolves, clothed in sheep-skins, meaning\r\nthereby monsters of rapacity in human form. And so all such most\r\nsavage beasts, and all such blocks of stone, the celestial song has\r\ntransformed into tractable men. “For even we ourselves were sometime\r\nfoolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures,\r\nliving in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.” Thus speaks\r\nthe apostolic scripture: “But after that the kindness and love of\r\nGod our Saviour to man appeared, not by works of righteousness which\r\nwe have done, but according to His mercy, He saved us.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_13\" id=\"FNanchor_13\">[13]</a> Behold\r\nthe might of the new song! It has made men out of stones, men out of\r\nbeasts. Those, moreover, that were as dead, not being partakers of\r\nthe true life, have come to life again, simply by becoming listeners\r\nto this song. It also composed the universe into melodious order, and\r\ntuned the discord of the elements to harmonious arrangement, so that\r\nthe whole world might become harmony. It let loose the fluid ocean,\r\nand yet has prevented it from encroaching on the land. The earth,\r\nagain, which had been in a state of commotion, it has established, and\r\nfixed the sea as its boundary. The violence of fire it has softened\r\nby the atmosphere, as the Dorian is blended with the Lydian strain;\r\nand the harsh cold of the air it has moderated by the embrace of fire,\r\nharmoniously arranging these the extreme tones of the universe. And\r\nthis deathless strain,—the support of the whole and the harmony of\r\nall,—reaching from the centre to the circumference, and from the\r\nextremities to the central part, has harmonized this universal frame\r\nof things, not according to the Thracian music, which is like that\r\ninvented by Jubal, but according to the paternal counsel of God, which\r\nfired the zeal of David. And He who is of David, and yet before him,\r\nthe Word of God, despising the lyre and harp, which are but lifeless\r\ninstruments, and having tuned by the Holy Spirit the universe, and\r\nespecially man,—who, composed of body and soul, is a universe in\r\nminiature,—makes melody to God on this<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_21\">[21]</span> instrument of many tones; and\r\nto this instrument—I mean man—he sings accordant: “For thou art my\r\nharp, and pipe, and temple,”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_14\" id=\"FNanchor_14\">[14]</a>—a harp for harmony—a pipe by reason\r\nof the Spirit—a temple by reason of the word; so that the first may\r\nsound, the second breathe, the third contain the Lord. And David the\r\nking, the harper whom we mentioned a little above, who exhorted to the\r\ntruth and dissuaded from idols, was so far from celebrating demons\r\nin song, that in reality they were driven away by his music. Thus,\r\nwhen Saul was plagued with a demon, he cured him by merely playing. A\r\nbeautiful breathing instrument of music the Lord made man, after His\r\nown image. And He Himself also, surely, who is the supramundane Wisdom,\r\nthe celestial Word, is the all-harmonious, melodious, holy instrument\r\nof God. What, then, does this instrument—the Word of God, the Lord,\r\nthe New Song—desire? To open the eyes of the blind, and unstop the\r\nears of the deaf, and to lead the lame or the erring to righteousness,\r\nto exhibit God to the foolish, to put a stop to corruption, to\r\nconquer death, to reconcile disobedient children to their father. The\r\ninstrument of God loves mankind. The Lord pities, instructs, exhorts,\r\nadmonishes, saves, shields, and of His bounty promises us the kingdom\r\nof heaven as a reward for learning; and the only advantage He reaps\r\nis, that we are saved. For wickedness feeds on men’s destruction; but\r\ntruth, like the bee, harming nothing, delights only in the salvation of\r\nmen.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","EXHORTATION TO THE HEATHEN.","CHAPTER I. EXHORTATION TO ABANDON THE IMPIOUS MYSTERIES OF IDOLATRY FOR THE ADORATION OF THE DIVINE WORD AND GOD THE FATHER."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_13","paragraph_id":"pg71937-paragraph-48"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"078b98e86e934694371464690e0df385be8166ea0ec2c650cd1d1902d9d33374","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1867,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg71937-Footnote_13","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. 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