{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">“Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not; break forth and\r\ncry, thou that travailest not; for she that is desolate hath\r\nmany more children than she that hath an husband.”<a id=\"r268\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f268\"><sup>[268]</sup></a> In\r\nthat He said, “Rejoice, thou barren that bearest not,” He\r\nreferred to us, for our church was barren before that children\r\nwere given to her. But when He said, “Cry out, thou that\r\ntravailest not,” He means this, that we should sincerely offer\r\nup our prayers to God, and should not, like women in travail,\r\nshow signs of weakness.<a id=\"r269\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f269\"><sup>[269]</sup></a> And in that He said, “For she\r\nthat is desolate hath many more children than she that hath\r\nan husband,” [He means] that our people seemed to be outcast\r\nfrom God, but now, through believing, have become more\r\nnumerous than those who are reckoned to possess God.<a id=\"r270\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f270\"><sup>[270]</sup></a> And\r\nanother Scripture saith, “I came not to call the righteous,\r\nbut sinners.”<a id=\"r271\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f271\"><sup>[271]</sup></a> This means that those who are perishing\r\nmust be saved. For it is indeed a great and admirable thing\r\nto establish not the things which are standing, but those that\r\nare falling. Thus also did Christ desire to save the things\r\nwhich were perishing,<a id=\"r272\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f272\"><sup>[272]</sup></a> and has saved many by coming and\r\ncalling us when hastening to destruction.<a id=\"r273\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f273\"><sup>[273]</sup></a></p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE SECOND EPISTLE OF CLEMENT.","THE SECOND EPISTLE OF CLEMENT.","Chap. ii.—The church, formerly barren, is now fruitful."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-106"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"12c749345dd65bce567aa2a99d0d22f9d68ff16c6d4d58eb8a118d94c999ade6","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-f273","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":"f273","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f273\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r273\">273</a>. </span>Literally, “already perishing.”</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f273","text_sha256":"394d53de289e512fa9416bdcef1e3a8f357e0d8c881678d93bb6b66f0832d576","verified":false,"work_id":null}