{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>And now we must look also at this, that if ever those who know not how\r\nto do well, live well;<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_868\" id=\"FNanchor_868\">[868]</a> for they have lighted on well-doing. Some,\r\ntoo, have aimed well at the word of truth through understanding. “But\r\nAbraham was not justified by works, but by faith.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_869\" id=\"FNanchor_869\">[869]</a> It is therefore\r\nof no advantage to them after the end of life, even if they do good\r\nworks now, if they have not faith. Wherefore also the Scriptures were\r\ntranslated into the language of the Greeks, in order that they might\r\nnever be able to allege the excuse of ignorance, inasmuch as they are\r\nable to hear also what we have in our hands, if they only wish. One\r\nspeaks in one way of the truth, in another way the truth interprets\r\nitself. The guessing at truth is one thing, and truth itself is\r\nanother. Resemblance is one thing, the thing itself is another. And\r\nthe one results from learning and practice, the other from power and\r\nfaith. For the teaching of piety is a gift, but faith is grace. “For\r\nby doing the will of God we know the will of God.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_870\" id=\"FNanchor_870\">[870]</a> “Open, then,”\r\nsays the Scripture, “the gates of righteousness; and I will enter in,\r\nand confess to the Lord.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_871\" id=\"FNanchor_871\">[871]</a> But the paths to righteousness (since\r\nGod saves in many ways, for He is good) are many and various, and\r\nlead to the Lord’s way and gate. And if you ask the royal and true\r\nentrance, you will hear, “This is the gate of the Lord, the righteous\r\nshall enter in by it.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_872\" id=\"FNanchor_872\">[872]</a> While there are many gates open, that in\r\nrighteousness is in Christ, by which all the blessed enter, and direct\r\ntheir steps in the sanctity of knowledge. Now Clemens, in his Epistle\r\nto the Corinthians, while expounding the differences of those who\r\nare approved according to the church, says expressly, “One may be a\r\nbeliever; one may be powerful in uttering knowledge; one may be wise in\r\ndiscriminating between words; one may be terrible in deeds.”</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","THE MISCELLANIES.","BOOK I.","CHAPTER VII. THE ECLECTIC PHILOSOPHY PAVES THE WAY FOR DIVINE VIRTUE."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_869","paragraph_id":"pg71937-paragraph-699"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"76a882a10d521bd0b55e75e215eeebbb496b0c28535094d7aba0263fddb5c111","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1867,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg71937-Footnote_869","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_869","source_ebook":71937,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_869\" id=\"Footnote_869\">[869]</a> Rom. iv.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"8e5c5bc39922dbad2626ac7651c2eb2e3d94cdcbd721f781e9792143ebb1cd03","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/71937/pg71937-images.html#Footnote_869","text_sha256":"e75255f40ad1cbe1b769619fbed37cd38ea44b7d8722bbb4ba214112c565dcc2","verified":false,"work_id":null}