{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">It is right and holy therefore, men and brethren, rather to\r\nobey God than to follow those who, through pride and sedition,\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_17\">17</span>have become the leaders of a detestable emulation. For we\r\nshall incur no slight injury, but rather great danger, if we\r\nrashly yield ourselves to the inclinations of men who aim at\r\nexciting strife and tumults, so as to draw us away from what\r\nis good. Let us be kind one to another after the pattern of\r\nthe tender mercy and benignity of our Creator. For it is\r\nwritten, “The kind-hearted shall inhabit the land, and the\r\nguiltless shall be left upon it, but transgressors shall be destroyed\r\nfrom off the face of it.”<a id=\"r56\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f56\"><sup>[56]</sup></a> And again [the Scripture]\r\nsaith, “I saw the ungodly highly exalted, and lifted up like\r\nthe cedars of Lebanon: I passed by, and, behold, he was\r\nnot; and I diligently sought his place, and could not find it.\r\nPreserve innocence, and look on equity: for there shall be a\r\nremnant to the peaceable man.”<a id=\"r57\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f57\"><sup>[57]</sup></a></p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE FIRST EPISTLE OF CLEMENT.","THE FIRST EPISTLE OF CLEMENT TO THE CORINTHIANS.","Chap. xiv.—We should obey God rather than the authors of sedition."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-58"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"b0fe4d3ff9fa81682cf0ccb0834182d1938d58eb936564a5b358b370bdcde273","edition_title":"The writings of the Apostolic Fathers","edition_translators":["Alexander Roberts","James Donaldson","Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1870,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"PSA","chapter":37,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Ps. xxxvii. 35-37","verse":35,"verse_end":37}],"headings":[],"id":"pg77576-f57","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":"f57","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f57\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r57\">57</a>. </span><abbr title=\"Psalms\">Ps.</abbr> <abbr title=\"thirty-seven\">xxxvii.</abbr> 35-37. “Remnant” probably refers either to the memory\r\nor <i>posterity</i> of the righteous.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f57","text_sha256":"c27468ed9992047984ddb0a1c9c97297b46d1c1d6862699458ca418b1ffd007a","verified":false,"work_id":null}