{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>The beneficent action of the law, the apostle showed in the passage\r\nrelating to the Jews, writing thus: “Behold, thou art called a Jew\r\nand restest in the law, and makest thy boast in God, and knowest the\r\nwill of God, and approvest the things that are more excellent, being\r\ninstructed out of the law, and art confident that thou thyself art a\r\nguide of the blind, a light of them who are in darkness, an instructor\r\nof the foolish, a teacher of babes, who hast the form of knowledge and\r\nof truth in the law.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1068\" id=\"FNanchor_1068\">[1068]</a> For it is admitted that such is the power\r\nof the law, although those whose conduct is not according to the law,\r\nmake a false pretence, as if they lived in the law. “Blessed is the\r\nman that hath found wisdom, and the mortal who has seen understanding;\r\nfor out of its mouth,” manifestly Wisdom’s, “proceeds righteousness,\r\nand it bears law and mercy on its tongue.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1069\" id=\"FNanchor_1069\">[1069]</a> For both the law and\r\nthe gospel are the energy of one Lord, who is “the power and wisdom of\r\nGod;” and the terror which the law begets is merciful and in order to\r\nsalvation. “Let not alms, and faith, and truth fail thee, but hang them\r\naround thy neck.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1070\" id=\"FNanchor_1070\">[1070]</a> In the same way as Paul, prophecy upbraids the\r\npeople with not understanding the law. “Destruction and misery are in\r\ntheir ways, and the way of peace have they not known.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1071\" id=\"FNanchor_1071\">[1071]</a> “There is\r\nno fear of God before their eyes.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1072\" id=\"FNanchor_1072\">[1072]</a> “Professing themselves wise,\r\nthey became fools.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1073\" id=\"FNanchor_1073\">[1073]</a> “And we know that the law is good, if a man\r\nuse it lawfully.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1074\" id=\"FNanchor_1074\">[1074]</a> “Desiring to be teachers of the law, they\r\nunderstand,” says the apostle, “neither what they say, nor whereof they\r\naffirm.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1075\" id=\"FNanchor_1075\">[1075]</a> “Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure\r\nheart, and a good conscience, and faith unfeigned.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1076\" id=\"FNanchor_1076\">[1076]</a></p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","THE MISCELLANIES.","BOOK I.","CHAPTER XXVII. THE LAW, EVEN IN CORRECTING AND PUNISHING, AIMS AT THE GOOD OF MEN."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_1072","paragraph_id":"pg71937-paragraph-844"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"1fca1af30ae4f4a2cf862d835294d9644299668ed1f8f3e03d803d082c904e3e","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1867,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"PSA","chapter":13,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Ps. xiii. 3","verse":3,"verse_end":3},{"book":"ROM","chapter":3,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Rom. iii. 18","verse":18,"verse_end":18}],"headings":[],"id":"pg71937-Footnote_1072","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_1072","source_ebook":71937,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_1072\" id=\"Footnote_1072\">[1072]</a> Ps. xiii. 3; Rom. iii. 18.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"8e5c5bc39922dbad2626ac7651c2eb2e3d94cdcbd721f781e9792143ebb1cd03","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/71937/pg71937-images.html#Footnote_1072","text_sha256":"2a7b3398b7a800c05c3af1400cc0697c180df4b1cb94914106fbad09e1ac0352","verified":false,"work_id":null}