{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>For if rulers are not a terror to a good work, how shall God, who is by\r\nnature good, be a terror to him who sins not? “If thou doest evil, be\r\nafraid,”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_365\" id=\"FNanchor_365\">[365]</a> says the apostle. Wherefore the apostle himself also in\r\nevery case uses stringent language to the churches, after the Lord’s\r\nexample; and conscious of his own boldness, and of the weakness of his\r\nhearers, he says to the Galatians: “Am I your enemy, because I tell you\r\nthe truth?”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_366\" id=\"FNanchor_366\">[366]</a> Thus also people in health do not require a physician,\r\ndo not require him as long as they are strong; but those who are ill\r\nneed his skill. Thus also we who in our lives are ill of shameful lusts\r\nand reprehensible excesses, and other inflammatory effects of the\r\npassions, need the Saviour. And He administers not only mild, but also\r\nstringent medicines. The bitter roots of fear then arrest the eating\r\nsores of our sins. Wherefore also fear is salutary, if bitter. Sick, we\r\ntruly stand in need of the Saviour; having wandered, of one to guide\r\nus; blind, of one to lead us to the light; thirsty, “of the fountain\r\nof life, of which whosoever partakes, shall no<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_170\">[170]</span> longer thirst;”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_367\" id=\"FNanchor_367\">[367]</a>\r\ndead, we need life; sheep, we need a shepherd; we who are children need\r\na tutor, while universal humanity stands in need of Jesus; so that we\r\nmay not continue intractable and sinners to the end, and thus fall\r\ninto condemnation, but may be separated from the chaff, and stored up\r\nin the paternal garner. “For the fan is in the Lord’s hand, by which\r\nthe chaff due to the fire is separated from the wheat.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_368\" id=\"FNanchor_368\">[368]</a> You may\r\nlearn, if you will, the crowning wisdom of the all-holy Shepherd and\r\nInstructor, of the omnipotent and paternal Word, when He figuratively\r\nrepresents Himself as the Shepherd of the sheep. And He is the Tutor of\r\nthe children. He says therefore by Ezekiel, directing His discourse to\r\nthe elders, and setting before them a salutary description of His wise\r\nsolicitude: “And that which is lame I will bind up, and that which is\r\nsick I will heal, and that which has wandered I will turn back; and I\r\nwill feed them on my holy mountain.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_369\" id=\"FNanchor_369\">[369]</a> Such are the promises of the\r\ngood Shepherd.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","THE INSTRUCTOR.","BOOK I.","CHAPTER IX. THAT IT IS THE PREROGATIVE OF THE SAME POWER TO BE BENEFICENT AND TO PUNISH JUSTLY. ALSO THE MANNER OF THE INSTRUCTION OF THE LOGOS."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_367","paragraph_id":"pg71937-paragraph-313"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"952e363130dba070c39885269bd4dd8497b23e8f51408103966c6820fdeb7da9","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1867,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"JHN","chapter":4,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"John iv. 13","verse":13,"verse_end":13}],"headings":[],"id":"pg71937-Footnote_367","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_367","source_ebook":71937,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_367\" id=\"Footnote_367\">[367]</a> John iv. 13, 14.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"8e5c5bc39922dbad2626ac7651c2eb2e3d94cdcbd721f781e9792143ebb1cd03","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/71937/pg71937-images.html#Footnote_367","text_sha256":"1fc11e090d186ba049be13446830b9e3752f26991525712d0149645dcd225272","verified":false,"work_id":null}