{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">Wherefore, my brethren, let us do the will of the Father\r\nwho called us, that we may live; and let us earnestly<a id=\"r309\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f309\"><sup>[309]</sup></a> follow\r\nafter virtue, but forsake every wicked tendency<a id=\"r310\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f310\"><sup>[310]</sup></a> which\r\nwould lead us into transgression; and flee from ungodliness,\r\nlest evils overtake us. For if we are diligent in doing good,\r\npeace will follow us. On this account, such men cannot\r\nfind it [<abbr class=\"spell\"><i>i.e.</i></abbr> peace] as are<a id=\"r311\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f311\"><sup>[311]</sup></a> influenced by human terrors, and\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_62\">62</span>prefer rather present enjoyment to the promise which shall\r\nafterwards be fulfilled. For they know not what torment\r\npresent enjoyment incurs, or what felicity is involved in the\r\nfuture promise. And if, indeed, they themselves only did\r\nsuch things, it would be [the more] tolerable; but now they\r\npersist in imbuing innocent souls with their pernicious doctrines,\r\nnot knowing that they shall receive a double condemnation,\r\nboth they and those that hear them.</p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE SECOND EPISTLE OF CLEMENT.","THE SECOND EPISTLE OF CLEMENT.","Chap. x.—Vice is to be forsaken, and virtue followed."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-114"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"116e6344de3a140973fa79d2e7bddcd0cdf27f2c2293f9ea15e9a8d6a35b6ab1","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-f309","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":"f309","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f309\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r309\">309</a>. </span>Literally, “rather.”</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f309","text_sha256":"a0c88124c56601586d3c59671d93b046b7966cf1715951ba44529a8043443f6b","verified":false,"work_id":null}