{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>But it is the highest and most perfect good, when one is able to lead\r\nback any one from the practice of evil to virtue and well-doing, which\r\nis the very function of the law. So that, when one falls into any\r\nincurable evil,—when taken possession of, for example, by wrong or\r\ncovetousness,—it will be for his good if he is put to death. For the\r\nlaw is beneficent, being able to make some righteous from unrighteous,\r\nif they will only give ear to it, and by releasing others from present\r\nevils; for those who have chosen to live temperately and justly, it\r\nconducts to immortality. To know the law is characteristic of a good\r\ndisposition. And again: “Wicked men do not understand the law; but they\r\nwho seek the Lord shall have understanding in all that is good.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1066\" id=\"FNanchor_1066\">[1066]</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_1066","paragraph_id":"pg71937-paragraph-841"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"4d84a6d2a31d60f80cf065662b12f90dce2e8d1b8c4a41cdde7fb23359ba05e1","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1867,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"PRO","chapter":28,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Prov. xxviii. 5","verse":5,"verse_end":5}],"headings":[],"id":"pg71937-Footnote_1066","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_1066","source_ebook":71937,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_1066\" id=\"Footnote_1066\">[1066]</a> Prov. xxviii. 5.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"8e5c5bc39922dbad2626ac7651c2eb2e3d94cdcbd721f781e9792143ebb1cd03","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/71937/pg71937-images.html#Footnote_1066","text_sha256":"0eb8c196dffa665ff4e94a89d959eb9203a4c39aa1bacc7dee36801a0f2fa380","verified":false,"work_id":null}