{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">Let us then also pray for those who have fallen into any\r\nsin, that meekness and humility may be given to them, so\r\nthat they may submit, not unto us, but to the will of God.\r\nFor in this way they shall secure a fruitful and perfect remembrance\r\nfrom us, with sympathy for them, both in our\r\nprayers to God, and our mention of them to the saints.<a id=\"r244\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f244\"><sup>[244]</sup></a> Let\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_47\">47</span>us receive correction, beloved, on account of which no one\r\nshould feel displeased. Those exhortations by which we\r\nadmonish one another are both good [in themselves], and\r\nhighly profitable, for they tend to unite<a id=\"r245\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f245\"><sup>[245]</sup></a> us to the will of\r\nGod. For thus saith the holy Word: “The Lord hath\r\nseverely chastened me, yet hath not given me over to death.”<a id=\"r246\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f246\"><sup>[246]</sup></a>\r\n“For whom the Lord loveth He chasteneth, and scourgeth\r\nevery son whom He receiveth.”<a id=\"r247\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f247\"><sup>[247]</sup></a> “The righteous,” saith\r\nit, “shall chasten me in mercy, and reprove me; but let\r\nnot the oil of sinners make fat my head.”<a id=\"r248\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f248\"><sup>[248]</sup></a> And again he\r\nsaith, “Blessed is the man whom the Lord reproveth, and\r\nreject not thou the warning of the Almighty. For He\r\ncauses sorrow, and again restores [to gladness]; He woundeth,\r\nand His hands make whole. He shall deliver thee in six\r\ntroubles, yea, in the seventh no evil shall touch thee. In\r\nfamine He shall rescue thee from death, and in war He shall\r\nfree thee from the power<a id=\"r249\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f249\"><sup>[249]</sup></a> of the sword. From the scourge\r\nof the tongue will He hide thee, and thou shalt not fear when\r\nevil cometh. Thou shalt laugh at the unrighteous and the\r\nwicked, and shalt not be afraid of the beasts of the field.\r\nFor the wild beasts shall be at peace with thee: then shalt\r\nthou know that thy house shall be in peace, and the habitation\r\nof thy tabernacle shall not fail.<a id=\"r250\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f250\"><sup>[250]</sup></a> Thou shalt know also\r\nthat thy seed shall be great, and thy children like the grass\r\nof the field. And thou shalt come to the grave like ripened\r\ncorn which is reaped in its season, or like a heap of the threshing-floor\r\nwhich is gathered together at the proper time.”<a id=\"r251\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f251\"><sup>[251]</sup></a>\r\nYe see, beloved, that protection is afforded to those that are\r\nchastened of the Lord; for since God is good, He corrects us,\r\nthat we may be admonished by His holy chastisement.</p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE FIRST EPISTLE OF CLEMENT.","THE FIRST EPISTLE OF CLEMENT TO THE CORINTHIANS.","Chap. lvi.—Let us admonish and correct one another."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-100"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"a8a32a453eb0772b98c1e648527b7908f22f695fe43b02c269cb07000f8d37ad","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-f250","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":"f250","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f250\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r250\">250</a>. </span>Literally, “err” or “sin.”</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f250","text_sha256":"2ce01c474207c8da5206b747a0038e08325ee89d9838f7d8c5d5e71da37971e2","verified":false,"work_id":null}