{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>“Now all those things are confirmed by the faith that is in Christ.\r\n‘Come, ye children,’ says the Lord, ‘hearken to me, and I will teach\r\nyou the fear of the Lord. Who is the man that desireth life, that\r\nloveth to see good days?’<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_609\" id=\"FNanchor_609\">[609]</a> Then He subjoins the gnostic mystery\r\nof the numbers seven and eight. ‘Stop thy tongue from evil, and thy\r\nlips from speaking guile. Depart from evil, and do good. Seek peace,\r\nand pursue it.’<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_610\" id=\"FNanchor_610\">[610]</a> For in these words He alludes to knowledge\r\n(<i>gnosis</i>), with abstinence from evil and the doing of what is\r\ngood, teaching that it is to be perfected by word and deed. ‘The eyes\r\nof the Lord are on the righteous, and His ears are to their prayer. But\r\nthe face of God is against those that do evil, to root out their memory\r\nfrom the earth. The righteous cried, and the Lord heard, and delivered\r\nhim out of all his distresses.’<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_611\" id=\"FNanchor_611\">[611]</a> ‘Many are the stripes of sinners;\r\nbut those who hope in the Lord, mercy shall compass about.’”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_612\" id=\"FNanchor_612\">[612]</a> “A\r\nmultitude of<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_190\">[190]</span> mercy,” he nobly says, “surrounds him that trusts in the\r\nLord.”</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK IV.","CHAPTER XVII. PASSAGES FROM CLEMENT’S EPISTLE TO THE CORINTHIANS ON MARTYRDOM."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_612","paragraph_id":"pg73020-paragraph-236"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"128de5c7d7483b2bf1b119deb0e82d80a1120b226fd65ad623969e6cd1e285eb","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"PSA","chapter":32,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Ps. xxxii. 10","verse":10,"verse_end":10}],"headings":[],"id":"pg73020-Footnote_612","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 1869 English translation; translator died 1875. Electronic transcription subject to Project Gutenberg reuse terms.","source_anchor":"Footnote_612","source_ebook":73020,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_612\" id=\"Footnote_612\">[612]</a> Ps. xxxii. 10.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"c35077683d75abe553cc6ef5d3ef5a1a978f07dfbcf4bad5c3d56302ad03dc19","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_612","text_sha256":"66adfd49578b73a65a05017143b019c3820d6d532b72867b3d24d933a386756c","verified":false,"work_id":null}