{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">As long, therefore, as we are upon earth, let us practise\r\nrepentance, for we are as clay in the hand of the artificer.\r\nFor as the potter, if he make a vessel, and it be distorted or\r\nbroken in his hands, fashions it over again; but if he have\r\nbefore this cast it into the furnace of fire, can no longer find\r\nany help for it: so let us also, while we are in this world,\r\nrepent with our whole heart of the evil deeds we have done\r\nin the flesh, that we may be saved by the Lord, while we\r\nhave yet an opportunity of repentance. For after we have\r\ngone out of the world, no further power of confessing or\r\nrepenting will there belong to us. Wherefore, brethren, by\r\ndoing the will of the Father, and keeping the flesh holy, and\r\nobserving the commandments of the Lord, we shall obtain\r\neternal life. For the Lord saith in the Gospel, “If ye have\r\nnot kept that which was small, who will commit to you the\r\ngreat? For I say unto you, that he that is faithful in that\r\nwhich is least, is faithful also in much.”<a id=\"r303\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f303\"><sup>[303]</sup></a> This, then, is what\r\nHe means: “Keep the flesh holy and the seal undefiled, that\r\n<a id=\"r304\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f304\"><sup>[304]</sup></a>ye may receive eternal life.”<a id=\"r305\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f305\"><sup>[305]</sup></a></p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE SECOND EPISTLE OF CLEMENT.","THE SECOND EPISTLE OF CLEMENT.","Chap. viii.—The necessity of repentance while we are on earth."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-112"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"2d3d9b59b5af226453fec5e992dd50aae142b90faaadb205c29000f4897fc055","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-f305","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":"f305","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f305\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r305\">305</a>. </span>Some have thought this a quotation from an unknown apocryphal\r\nbook, but it seems rather an explanation of the preceding words.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f305","text_sha256":"9a983fa30deff5bb958b0dc9b16b6a38ee89af48f16b61f72691df7fbaf9e062","verified":false,"work_id":null}