{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">Let us therefore, with all haste, put an end<a id=\"r216\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f216\"><sup>[216]</sup></a> to this [state\r\nof things]; and let us fall down before the Lord, and beseech\r\nHim with tears, that He would mercifully<a id=\"r217\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f217\"><sup>[217]</sup></a> be reconciled to\r\nus, and restore us to our former seemly and holy practice of\r\nbrotherly love. For [such conduct] is the gate of righteousness,\r\nwhich is set open for the attainment of life, as it is\r\nwritten, “Open to me the gates of righteousness; I will go\r\nin by them, and will praise the Lord: this is the gate of the\r\nLord: the righteous shall enter in by it.”<a id=\"r218\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f218\"><sup>[218]</sup></a> Although, therefore,\r\nmany gates have been set open, yet this gate of righteousness\r\nis that gate in Christ by which blessed are all they\r\nthat have entered in and have directed their way in holiness\r\nand righteousness, doing all things without disorder. Let a\r\nman be faithful: let him be powerful in the utterance of\r\nknowledge; let him be wise in judging of words; let him be\r\npure in all his deeds; yet the more he seems to be superior\r\nto others [in these respects], the more humble-minded ought\r\nhe to be, and to seek the common good of all, and not merely\r\nhis own advantage.</p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE FIRST EPISTLE OF CLEMENT.","THE FIRST EPISTLE OF CLEMENT TO THE CORINTHIANS.","Chap. xlviii.—Let us return to the practice of brotherly love."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-92"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"1d16fdc12e4b436a3807a534823c859d15563ee10174122a7dcfb6812df6ac81","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":118,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Ps. cxviii. 19","verse":19,"verse_end":19}],"headings":[],"id":"pg77576-f218","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":"f218","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f218\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r218\">218</a>. </span><abbr title=\"Psalms\">Ps.</abbr> <abbr title=\"a hundred and eighteen\">cxviii.</abbr> 19, 20.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f218","text_sha256":"284974bd365843459ea36b249cd92bced0d8a18e19518acb5bc5e34997c6d896","verified":false,"work_id":null}