{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>It is He who also gave philosophy to the Greeks by means of the\r\ninferior angels. For by an ancient and divine order the angels are\r\ndistributed among the nations.<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1196\" id=\"FNanchor_1196\">[1196]</a> But the glory of those who believe\r\nis “the Lord’s portion.” For either the Lord does not care for all\r\nmen; and this is the case either because He is unable (which is not\r\nto be thought, for it would be a proof of weakness), or because He\r\nis unwilling, which is not the attribute of a good being. And He who\r\nfor our sakes assumed flesh capable of suffering, is far from being\r\nluxuriously indolent. Or He does care for all, which is befitting for\r\nHim who has become Lord of all. For He is Saviour; not [the Saviour]\r\nof some, and of others not. But in proportion to the adaptation\r\npossessed by each, He has dispensed His beneficence both to Greeks\r\nand Barbarians, even to those of them that were predestinated, and in\r\ndue time called, the faithful and elect. Nor can He who called all\r\nequally, and assigned special honours to those who have believed in a\r\nspecially excellent way, ever envy any. Nor can He who is the Lord of\r\nall, and serves above all the will of the good and almighty Father,\r\never be hindered by another. But neither does envy touch the Lord, who\r\nwithout beginning was impassible; nor are the things of men such as to\r\nbe envied by the Lord. But it is another, he whom passion hath touched,\r\nwho envies. And it cannot be said that it is from ignorance that the\r\nLord is not willing to save humanity, because He<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_411\">[411]</span> knows not how each\r\none is to be cared for. For ignorance applies not to the God who,\r\nbefore the foundation of the world, was the counsellor of the Father.\r\nFor He was the Wisdom “in which” the Sovereign God “delighted.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1197\" id=\"FNanchor_1197\">[1197]</a>\r\nFor the Son is the power of God, as being the Father’s most ancient\r\nWord before the production of all things, and His Wisdom. He is then\r\nproperly called the Teacher of the beings formed by Him. Nor does He\r\never abandon care for men, by being drawn aside from pleasure, who,\r\nhaving assumed flesh, which by nature is susceptible of suffering,\r\ntrained it to the condition of impassibility.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK VII.","CHAPTER II. THE SON THE RULER AND SAVIOUR OF ALL."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_1196","paragraph_id":"pg73020-paragraph-924"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"e615aa103be1beddce69614f03bdffb0d8ab608e3c934d7cb71e681d73035747","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"DEU","chapter":32,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Deut. xxxii. 8","verse":8,"verse_end":8}],"headings":[],"id":"pg73020-Footnote_1196","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_1196","source_ebook":73020,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_1196\" id=\"Footnote_1196\">[1196]</a> Deut. xxxii. 8, 9, Septuagint, quoted already more than\r\nonce.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"c35077683d75abe553cc6ef5d3ef5a1a978f07dfbcf4bad5c3d56302ad03dc19","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_1196","text_sha256":"815a7c8e59ed2f9b4ff9455d6bac4a5c41fe95197764f56db59719d4a301c9ce","verified":false,"work_id":null}