{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Does not John also invite to salvation, and is he not entirely a voice\r\nof exhortation? Let us then ask him, “Who of men art thou, and whence?”\r\nHe will not say Elias. He will deny that he is Christ, but will\r\nprofess himself to be “a voice crying in the wilderness.” Who, then,\r\nis John?<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_20\" id=\"FNanchor_20\">[20]</a> In a word, we may say, “The beseeching voice of the Word\r\ncrying in the wilderness.” What criest thou, O voice? Tell us also.\r\n“Make straight the paths of the Lord.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_21\" id=\"FNanchor_21\">[21]</a> John is the forerunner, and\r\nthat voice the precursor of the Word; an inviting voice, preparing for\r\nsalvation,—a voice urging men on to the inheritance of the heavens,\r\nand through which the barren and the desolate is childless no more.\r\nThis fecundity the angel’s voice foretold; and this voice was also\r\nthe precursor of the Lord preaching glad tidings to the barren woman,\r\nas John did to the wilderness. By reason of this voice of the Word,\r\ntherefore, the barren woman bears children, and the desert becomes\r\nfruitful. The two voices which heralded the Lord’s—that of the angel\r\nand that of John—intimate, as I think, the salvation in store for us\r\nto be, that on the appearance of this Word we should reap, as the fruit\r\nof this productiveness, eternal life. The Scripture makes all this\r\nclear, by referring both the voices to the same thing: “Let her hear\r\nwho has<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_25\">[25]</span> not brought forth, and let her who has not had the pangs of\r\nchildbirth utter her voice: for more are the children of the desolate,\r\nthan of her who hath an husband.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_22\" id=\"FNanchor_22\">[22]</a></p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","EXHORTATION TO THE HEATHEN.","CHAPTER I. EXHORTATION TO ABANDON THE IMPIOUS MYSTERIES OF IDOLATRY FOR THE ADORATION OF THE DIVINE WORD AND GOD THE FATHER."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_22","paragraph_id":"pg71937-paragraph-54"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"4551caca47117ac0ffcd6cb736fa856afc92c735088b4e5921fad15c7f797741","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":54,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Isa. liv. 1","verse":1,"verse_end":1}],"headings":[],"id":"pg71937-Footnote_22","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_22","source_ebook":71937,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_22\" id=\"Footnote_22\">[22]</a> Isa. liv. 1.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"8e5c5bc39922dbad2626ac7651c2eb2e3d94cdcbd721f781e9792143ebb1cd03","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/71937/pg71937-images.html#Footnote_22","text_sha256":"367f12fe61eedfad00c45212068befd01c0ec419247393f5b7d69aaba3ba38b2","verified":false,"work_id":null}