{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>It is well, then, for them to receive right dispositions from\r\nrepentance, which results in faith. For if the truth seems to get\r\nenemies who entertain bad feeling, yet it is not hostile to any one.\r\n“For God makes His sun to shine on the just and on the unjust,”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1291\" id=\"FNanchor_1291\">[1291]</a>\r\nand sent the Lord Himself to the just and the unjust. And he that\r\nearnestly strives to be assimilated to God, in the exercise of great\r\nabsence of resentment, forgives seventy times seven times, as it were\r\nall his life through, and<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_470\">[470]</span> in all his course in this world (that being\r\nindicated by the enumeration of sevens) shows clemency to each and\r\nany one; if any during the whole time of his life in the flesh do the\r\nGnostic wrong. For he not only deems it right that the good man should\r\nresign his property alone to others, being of the number of those who\r\nhave done him wrong; but also wishes that the righteous man should ask\r\nof those judges forgiveness for the offences of those who have done him\r\nwrong. And with reason, if indeed it is only in that which is external\r\nand concerns the body, though it go to the extent of death even, that\r\nthose who attempt to wrong him take advantage of him; none of which\r\ntruly belong to the Gnostic.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK VII.","CHAPTER XIV. DESCRIPTION OF THE GNOSTIC FURNISHED BY AN EXPOSITION OF 1 COR. VI. 1, ETC."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_1291","paragraph_id":"pg73020-paragraph-1127"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"320323f3b81226c0fa71d2800860d6281bec9944b842f9826e1e90a3ef1f5722","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"MAT","chapter":5,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Matt. v. 45","verse":45,"verse_end":45}],"headings":[],"id":"pg73020-Footnote_1291","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_1291","source_ebook":73020,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_1291\" id=\"Footnote_1291\">[1291]</a> Matt. v. 45.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"c35077683d75abe553cc6ef5d3ef5a1a978f07dfbcf4bad5c3d56302ad03dc19","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_1291","text_sha256":"505e547fd2b13d7efe988f9d91a40a830c2b6f275e09b437e7eb2e889eec5198","verified":false,"work_id":null}