{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">Now the Lord declares, “No servant can serve two masters.”<a id=\"r288\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f288\"><sup>[288]</sup></a>\r\nIf we desire, then, to serve both God and mammon,\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_59\">59</span>it will be unprofitable for us. “For what will it profit if a man\r\ngain the whole world, and lose his own soul?”<a id=\"r289\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f289\"><sup>[289]</sup></a> This world\r\nand the next are two enemies. The one urges<a id=\"r290\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f290\"><sup>[290]</sup></a> to adultery\r\nand corruption, avarice and deceit; the other bids farewell\r\nto these things. We cannot therefore be the friends of both;\r\nand it behoves us, by renouncing the one, to make sure<a id=\"r291\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f291\"><sup>[291]</sup></a> of\r\nthe other. Let us reckon<a id=\"r292\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f292\"><sup>[292]</sup></a> that it is better to hate the things\r\npresent, since they are trifling, and transient, and corruptible;\r\nand to love those [which are to come,] as being good and\r\nincorruptible. For if we do the will of Christ, we shall\r\nfind rest; otherwise, nothing shall deliver us from eternal\r\npunishment, if we disobey His commandments. For thus\r\nalso saith the Scripture in Ezekiel, “If Noah, Job, and\r\nDaniel should rise up, they should not deliver their children\r\nin captivity.”<a id=\"r293\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f293\"><sup>[293]</sup></a> Now, if men so eminently righteous are not\r\nable by their righteousness to deliver their children, how<a id=\"r294\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f294\"><sup>[294]</sup></a>\r\ncan we hope to enter into the royal residence<a id=\"r295\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f295\"><sup>[295]</sup></a> of God unless\r\nwe keep our baptism holy and undefiled? Or who shall\r\nbe our advocate, unless we be found possessed of works of\r\nholiness and righteousness?</p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE SECOND EPISTLE OF CLEMENT.","THE SECOND EPISTLE OF CLEMENT.","Chap. vi.—The present and future worlds are enemies to each other."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-110"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"83be2330b3d6698dd3cd4564336ed9c8a7b1a1e51b3f66b940e6b3747ef1b45a","edition_title":"The writings of the Apostolic Fathers","edition_translators":["Alexander Roberts","James Donaldson","Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1870,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"MAT","chapter":6,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Matt. vi. 24","verse":24,"verse_end":24},{"book":"LUK","chapter":16,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Luke xvi. 13","verse":13,"verse_end":13}],"headings":[],"id":"pg77576-f288","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":"f288","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f288\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r288\">288</a>. </span><abbr title=\"Matthew\">Matt.</abbr> <abbr title=\"six\">vi.</abbr> 24; Luke <abbr title=\"sixteen\">xvi.</abbr> 13.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f288","text_sha256":"027ae7d1fa04688adb6060ad17f525e6596eebe94d4d0202c894a1378fc6b982","verified":false,"work_id":null}