{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">Let us be imitators also of those who in goat-skins and\r\nsheep-skins<a id=\"r70\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f70\"><sup>[70]</sup></a> went about proclaiming the coming of Christ;\r\nI mean Elijah, Elisha, and Ezekiel among the prophets, with\r\nthose others to whom a like testimony is borne [in Scripture].\r\nAbraham was specially honoured, and was called the friend\r\nof God; yet he, earnestly regarding the glory of God, humbly\r\ndeclared, “I am but dust and ashes.”<a id=\"r71\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f71\"><sup>[71]</sup></a> Moreover, it is thus\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_20\">20</span>written of Job, “Job was a righteous man, and blameless,\r\ntruthful, God-fearing, and one that kept himself from all\r\nevil.”<a id=\"r72\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f72\"><sup>[72]</sup></a> But bringing an accusation against himself, he said,\r\n“No man is free from defilement, even if his life be but of\r\none day.”<a id=\"r73\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f73\"><sup>[73]</sup></a> Moses was called faithful in all God’s house;<a id=\"r74\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f74\"><sup>[74]</sup></a>\r\nand through his instrumentality, God punished Egypt<a id=\"r75\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f75\"><sup>[75]</sup></a> with\r\nplagues and tortures. Yet he, though thus greatly honoured,\r\ndid not adopt lofty language, but said, when the divine oracle\r\ncame to him out of the bush, “Who am I, that Thou sendest\r\nme? I am a man of a feeble voice and a slow tongue.”<a id=\"r76\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f76\"><sup>[76]</sup></a>\r\nAnd again he said, “I am but as the smoke of a pot.”<a id=\"r77\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f77\"><sup>[77]</sup></a></p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE FIRST EPISTLE OF CLEMENT.","THE FIRST EPISTLE OF CLEMENT TO THE CORINTHIANS.","Chap. xvii.—The saints as examples of humility."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-61"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"1fd0a9dc1ff03e5e86fd5dc7ca7a56d26eb53cce6944cefa57509d224d4e6be3","edition_title":"The writings of the Apostolic Fathers","edition_translators":["Alexander Roberts","James Donaldson","Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1870,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"NUM","chapter":12,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Num. xii. 7","verse":7,"verse_end":7},{"book":"HEB","chapter":3,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Heb. iii. 2","verse":2,"verse_end":2}],"headings":[],"id":"pg77576-f74","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":"f74","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f74\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r74\">74</a>. </span><abbr title=\"Numbers\">Num.</abbr> <abbr title=\"twelve\">xii.</abbr> 7; <abbr title=\"Hebrews\">Heb.</abbr> <abbr title=\"three\">iii.</abbr> 2.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f74","text_sha256":"80d1ee323ae518b84c6ba3cac7cf3302b892e7daa96302af3f99a6ec1f985548","verified":false,"work_id":null}