{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Very clearly, then, we conclude Him to be one and the same God, thus.\r\nFor the Holy Spirit has sung, “I will look to the heavens, the works\r\nof Thy hands;”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_319\" id=\"FNanchor_319\">[319]</a> and, “He who created the heavens dwells in the\r\nheavens;” and, “Heaven is Thy throne.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_320\" id=\"FNanchor_320\">[320]</a> And the Lord says in His\r\nprayer, “Our Father, who art in heaven.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_321\" id=\"FNanchor_321\">[321]</a> And the heavens belong\r\nto Him, who created the world. It is indisputable, then, that the Lord\r\nis the Son of the Creator. And if the Creator above all is confessed\r\nto be just, and the Lord to be the Son of the Creator; then the Lord\r\nis the Son of Him who is just. Wherefore also Paul says, “But now the\r\nrighteousness of God without the law is manifested;”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_322\" id=\"FNanchor_322\">[322]</a> and again,\r\nthat you may better conceive of God, “even the righteousness of God\r\nby the faith of Jesus Christ upon all that believe; for there is no\r\ndifference.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_323\" id=\"FNanchor_323\">[323]</a> And, witnessing further to the truth, he adds after\r\na little, “through the forbearance of God, in order to show that He is\r\njust, and that Jesus is the justifier of him who is of faith.” And that\r\nhe knows that what is just is good, appears by his saying, “So that\r\nthe law is holy, and the commandment holy, and just, and good,”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_324\" id=\"FNanchor_324\">[324]</a>\r\nusing both names to denote the same power. But “no one is good,” except\r\nHis Father. It is this same Father of His, then, who being one is\r\nmanifested by many powers. And this was the import of the utterance,\r\n“No man knew the Father,”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_325\" id=\"FNanchor_325\">[325]</a> who was Himself everything before the\r\ncoming of the Son. So<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_163\">[163]</span> that it is veritably clear that the God of all\r\nis only one good, just Creator, and the Son in the Father, to whom be\r\nglory for ever and ever, Amen. But it is not inconsistent with the\r\nsaving Word, to administer rebuke dictated by solicitude. For this is\r\nthe medicine of the divine love to man, by which the blush of modesty\r\nbreaks forth, and shame at sin supervenes. For if one must censure, it\r\nis necessary also to rebuke; when it is the time to wound the apathetic\r\nsoul not mortally, but salutarily, securing exemption from everlasting\r\ndeath by a little pain.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","THE INSTRUCTOR.","BOOK I.","CHAPTER VIII. AGAINST THOSE WHO THINK THAT WHAT IS JUST IS NOT GOOD."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_322","paragraph_id":"pg71937-paragraph-295"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"8a81fae1fee70a7577ab5521937e637a4fc487605bb52f1ca002272876180393","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1867,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"ROM","chapter":3,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Rom. iii. 21","verse":21,"verse_end":21}],"headings":[],"id":"pg71937-Footnote_322","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_322","source_ebook":71937,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_322\" id=\"Footnote_322\">[322]</a> Rom. iii. 21, 22.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"8e5c5bc39922dbad2626ac7651c2eb2e3d94cdcbd721f781e9792143ebb1cd03","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/71937/pg71937-images.html#Footnote_322","text_sha256":"6f87a33bc6c3b950a0451fefec8164bde3dd714380f29e204b6b7b7dfb0d7731","verified":false,"work_id":null}