{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">Ye see, beloved, how great and wonderful a thing is love,\r\nand that there is no declaring its perfection. Who is fit to\r\nbe found in it, except such as God has vouchsafed to render\r\nso? Let us pray, therefore, and implore of His mercy, that\r\nwe may live blameless in love, free from all human partialities\r\nfor one above another. All the generations from Adam even\r\nunto this day have passed away; but those who, through the\r\ngrace of God, have been made perfect in love, now possess a\r\nplace among the godly, and shall be made manifest at the\r\nrevelation<a id=\"r221\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f221\"><sup>[221]</sup></a> of the kingdom of Christ. For it is written,\r\n“Enter into thy secret chambers for a little time, until my\r\nwrath and fury pass away; and I will remember a propitious<a id=\"r222\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f222\"><sup>[222]</sup></a>\r\nday, and will raise you up out of your graves.”<a id=\"r223\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f223\"><sup>[223]</sup></a> Blessed\r\nare we, beloved, if we keep the commandments of God in the\r\nharmony of love; that so through love our sins may be forgiven\r\nus. For it is written, “Blessed are they whose transgressions\r\nare forgiven, and whose sins are covered. Blessed\r\nis the man whose sin the Lord will not impute to him, and in\r\nwhose mouth there is no guile.”<a id=\"r224\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f224\"><sup>[224]</sup></a> This blessedness cometh\r\nupon those who have been chosen by God through Jesus\r\nChrist our Lord; to whom be glory for ever and ever.\r\nAmen.</p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE FIRST EPISTLE OF CLEMENT.","THE FIRST EPISTLE OF CLEMENT TO THE CORINTHIANS.","Chap. l.—Let us pray to be thought worthy of love."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-94"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"838db094c23cc0bcfa5537d98b5506e12a539a6de242efb809405732c50c6920","edition_title":"The writings of the Apostolic Fathers","edition_translators":["Alexander Roberts","James Donaldson","Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1870,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"ISA","chapter":26,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Isa. xxvi. 20","verse":20,"verse_end":20}],"headings":[],"id":"pg77576-f223","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":"f223","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f223\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r223\">223</a>. </span><abbr title=\"Isaiah\">Isa.</abbr> <abbr title=\"twenty-six\">xxvi.</abbr> 20.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f223","text_sha256":"fc97fe6949bd5a7482429d7e02c8401794006d254a388dca8e447dd6cb63e7e9","verified":false,"work_id":null}