{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">Moreover, ye were all distinguished by humility, and were\r\nin no respect puffed up with pride, but yielded obedience\r\nrather than extorted it,<a id=\"r4\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f4\"><sup>[4]</sup></a> and were more willing to give than\r\nto receive.<a id=\"r5\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f5\"><sup>[5]</sup></a> Content with the provision which God had made\r\nfor you, and carefully attending to His words, ye were\r\ninwardly filled<a id=\"r6\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f6\"><sup>[6]</sup></a> with His doctrine, and His sufferings were\r\nbefore your eyes. Thus a profound and abundant peace was\r\ngiven to you all, and ye had an insatiable desire for doing\r\ngood, while a full outpouring of the Holy Spirit was upon\r\nyou all. Full of holy designs, ye did, with true earnestness\r\nof mind and a godly confidence, stretch forth your hands to\r\nGod Almighty, beseeching Him to be merciful unto you, if\r\nye had been guilty of any involuntary transgression. Day\r\nand night ye were anxious for the whole brotherhood,<a id=\"r7\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f7\"><sup>[7]</sup></a> that\r\nthe number of God’s elect might be saved with mercy and a\r\ngood conscience.<a id=\"r8\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f8\"><sup>[8]</sup></a> Ye were sincere and uncorrupted, and\r\nforgetful of injuries between one another. Every kind of\r\nfaction and schism was abominable in your sight. Ye\r\nmourned over the transgressions of your neighbours: their\r\ndeficiencies you deemed your own. Ye never grudged any act\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_9\">9</span>of kindness, being “ready to every good work.”<a id=\"r9\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f9\"><sup>[9]</sup></a> Adorned\r\nby a thoroughly virtuous and religious life, ye did all things\r\nin the fear of God. The commandments and ordinances of\r\nthe Lord were written upon the tablets of your hearts.<a id=\"r10\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f10\"><sup>[10]</sup></a></p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE FIRST EPISTLE OF CLEMENT.","THE FIRST EPISTLE OF CLEMENT TO THE CORINTHIANS.","Chap. ii.—Praise of the Corinthians continued."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-46"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"ff093b335915bf9cedac970d30dfd5dab16cb8fcf51ddcaf2e93c24aed027586","edition_title":"The writings of the Apostolic Fathers","edition_translators":["Alexander Roberts","James Donaldson","Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1870,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg77576-f8","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. Historical 1870 English edition; electronic transcription subject to Project Gutenberg reuse terms.","source_anchor":"f8","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f8\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r8\">8</a>. </span>So in the <abbr class=\"spell\"><span class=\"fss\">MS.</span></abbr>, but many have suspected that the text is here corrupt.\r\nPerhaps the best emendation is that which substitutes συναισθήσεως,\r\n“compassion,” for συνειδήσεως, “conscience.”</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f8","text_sha256":"545537d339c0c94fa9c8b7968078af94d6d936a337e9c72c1899b1ace0a5457a","verified":false,"work_id":null}