{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>For “great is the joy before the Father when one sinner is saved,”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_152\" id=\"FNanchor_152\">[152]</a>\r\nsaith the Lord. So Abraham was much to be praised, because “he walked\r\nas the Lord spake to him.” Drawing from this instance, one of the wise\r\nmen among the Greeks uttered the maxim, “Follow God.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_153\" id=\"FNanchor_153\">[153]</a> “The godly,”\r\nsays Esaias, “framed wise counsels.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_154\" id=\"FNanchor_154\">[154]</a> Now counsel is seeking for\r\nthe right way of acting in present circumstances, and good counsel\r\nis wisdom in our counsels. And what? Does not God, after the pardon\r\nbestowed on Cain, suitably not long after introduce Enoch, who had\r\nrepented?<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_155\" id=\"FNanchor_155\">[155]</a> showing that it is the nature of repentance to produce\r\npardon; but pardon does not consist in remission, but in remedy. An\r\ninstance of the same is the making of the calf by the people before\r\nAaron. Thence one of the wise men among the Greeks uttered the maxim,\r\n“Pardon is better than punishment;” as also, “Become surety, and\r\nmischief is at hand,” is derived from the utterance of Solomon which\r\nsays, “My son, if thou become surety for thy friend, thou wilt give\r\nthine hand to thy enemy; for a man’s own lips are a strong snare to\r\nhim, and he is taken in the words of his own mouth.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_156\" id=\"FNanchor_156\">[156]</a> And the<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_43\">[43]</span>\r\nsaying, “Know thyself,” has been taken rather more mystically from\r\nthis, “Thou hast seen thy brother, thou hast seen thy God.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_157\" id=\"FNanchor_157\">[157]</a> Thus\r\nalso, “Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and thy\r\nneighbour as thyself;” for it is said, “On these commandments the law\r\nand the prophets hang and are suspended.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_158\" id=\"FNanchor_158\">[158]</a> With these also agree\r\nthe following: “These things have I spoken to you, that my joy might\r\nbe fulfilled: and this is my commandment, That ye love one another,\r\nas I have loved you.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_159\" id=\"FNanchor_159\">[159]</a> “For the Lord is merciful and pitiful;\r\nand gracious<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_160\" id=\"FNanchor_160\">[160]</a> is the Lord to all.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_161\" id=\"FNanchor_161\">[161]</a> “Know thyself” is more\r\nclearly and often expressed by Moses, when he enjoins, “Take heed to\r\nthyself.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_162\" id=\"FNanchor_162\">[162]</a> “By alms then, and acts of faith, sins are purged.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_163\" id=\"FNanchor_163\">[163]</a>\r\n“And by the fear of the Lord each one departs from evil.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_164\" id=\"FNanchor_164\">[164]</a> And the\r\nfear of the Lord is instruction and wisdom.“<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_165\" id=\"FNanchor_165\">[165]</a></p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK II.","CHAPTER XV. 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