{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>And that He also calls us lambs, the Spirit by the mouth of Isaiah is\r\nan unimpeachable witness: “He will feed His flock like a shepherd,\r\nHe will gather the lambs with His arm,”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_188\" id=\"FNanchor_188\">[188]</a>—using the figurative\r\nappellation of lambs, which are still more tender than sheep, to\r\nexpress simplicity. And we also in truth, honouring the fairest and\r\nmost perfect objects in life with an appellation derived from the\r\nword child, have named training παιδεία, and discipline παιδαγωγία.\r\nDiscipline (παιδαγωγία) we declare to be right guiding from childhood\r\nto virtue. Accordingly, our Lord revealed more distinctly to us what\r\nis signified by the appellation of children. On the question arising\r\namong the apostles, “which of them should be the greater,” Jesus placed\r\na little child in the midst, saying, “Whosoever shall humble himself\r\nas this little child, the same shall be the greater in the kingdom\r\nof heaven.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_189\" id=\"FNanchor_189\">[189]</a> He does not then use the appellation of children on\r\naccount of their very limited amount of understanding from their age,\r\nas some have thought. Nor, if He says, “Except ye become as these\r\nchildren, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of God,” are His words\r\nto be understood as meaning “without learning.” We, then, who are\r\ninfants, no longer roll on the ground, nor creep on the earth like\r\nserpents as before, crawling with the whole body about senseless lusts;\r\nbut, stretching upwards in soul, loosed from the world and our sins,\r\ntouching the earth on tiptoe so as to appear to be in the world, we\r\npursue holy wisdom, although this seems folly to those whose wits are\r\nwhetted for wickedness. Rightly, then, are those called children who\r\nknow Him who is God alone as their Father, who are simple, and infants,\r\nand guileless, who are lovers of the horns of the unicorns.<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_190\" id=\"FNanchor_190\">[190]</a></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_188","paragraph_id":"pg71937-paragraph-245"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"cd172116426fc1749e2ca58c046624bf3d3b821ca3f87b84f255f65efba1deba","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1867,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"ISA","chapter":40,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Isa. xl. 11","verse":11,"verse_end":11}],"headings":[],"id":"pg71937-Footnote_188","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_188","source_ebook":71937,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_188\" id=\"Footnote_188\">[188]</a> Isa. xl. 11.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"8e5c5bc39922dbad2626ac7651c2eb2e3d94cdcbd721f781e9792143ebb1cd03","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/71937/pg71937-images.html#Footnote_188","text_sha256":"60e4250c5c36d944b28f43aae496215dfa1b4d7a6f5c20a9c6ddca9abfbaa9d6","verified":false,"work_id":null}