{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Again, David expressly (or rather the Lord in the person of the saint,\r\nand the same from the foundation of the world is each one who at\r\ndifferent periods is saved, and shall be saved by faith) says, “My\r\nheart was glad, and my tongue rejoiced, and my flesh shall still rest\r\nin hope. For Thou shalt not leave my soul in hell, nor wilt Thou give\r\nThine holy one to see corruption. Thou hast made known to me the paths\r\nof life, Thou wilt make me full of joy in Thy presence.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_984\" id=\"FNanchor_984\">[984]</a> As,\r\nthen, the people was precious to the Lord, so also is the<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_333\">[333]</span> entire holy\r\npeople; he also who is converted from the Gentiles, who was prophesied\r\nunder the name of proselyte, along with the Jew. For rightly the\r\nScripture says, that “the ox and the bear shall come together.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_985\" id=\"FNanchor_985\">[985]</a>\r\nFor the Jew is designated by the ox, from the animal under the yoke\r\nbeing reckoned clean, according to the law; for the ox both parts the\r\nhoof and chews the cud. And the Gentile is designated by the bear,\r\nwhich is an unclean and wild beast. And this animal brings forth a\r\nshapeless lump of flesh, which it shapes into the likeness of a beast\r\nsolely by its tongue. For he who is converted from among the Gentiles\r\nis formed from a beastlike life to gentleness by the word; and, when\r\nonce tamed, is made clean, just as the ox. For example, the prophet\r\nsays, “The sirens, and the daughters of the sparrows, and all the\r\nbeasts of the field, shall bless me.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_986\" id=\"FNanchor_986\">[986]</a> Of the number of unclean\r\nanimals, the wild beasts of the field are known to be, that is, of the\r\nworld; since those who are wild in respect of faith, and polluted in\r\nlife, and not purified by the righteousness which is according to the\r\nlaw, are called wild beasts. But changed from wild beasts by the faith\r\nof the Lord, they become men of God, advancing from the wish to change\r\nto the fact. For some the Lord exhorts, and to those who have already\r\nmade the attempt he stretches forth His hand, and draws them up. “For\r\nthe Lord dreads not the face of any one, nor will He regard greatness;\r\nfor He hath made small and great, and cares alike for all.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_987\" id=\"FNanchor_987\">[987]</a>\r\nAnd David says, “For the heathen are fixed in the destruction they\r\nhave caused; their foot is taken in the snare which they hid.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_988\" id=\"FNanchor_988\">[988]</a>\r\n“But the Lord was a refuge to the poor, a help in season also in\r\naffliction.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_989\" id=\"FNanchor_989\">[989]</a> Those, then, that were in affliction had the gospel\r\nseasonably proclaimed. And therefore it said, “Declare among the\r\nheathen his pursuits,”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_990\" id=\"FNanchor_990\">[990]</a> that they may not be judged unjustly.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK VI.","CHAPTER VI. THE GOSPEL WAS PREACHED TO JEWS AND GENTILES IN HADES."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_990","paragraph_id":"pg73020-paragraph-714"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"d1aa4cce8c1cfc9a352d4714f3c7be3b4c97ab298fe6407abfde482f9fb1d5ba","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"PSA","chapter":9,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Ps. ix. 11","verse":11,"verse_end":11}],"headings":[],"id":"pg73020-Footnote_990","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_990","source_ebook":73020,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_990\" id=\"Footnote_990\">[990]</a> Ps. ix. 11.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"c35077683d75abe553cc6ef5d3ef5a1a978f07dfbcf4bad5c3d56302ad03dc19","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_990","text_sha256":"7fd254ff786dd6dca73012419d9e02d8cba2789a2da7c58035c2d54830d651a2","verified":false,"work_id":null}