{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>What then? Did not the same dispensation obtain in Hades, so that\r\neven there, all the souls, on hearing the proclamation, might either\r\nexhibit repentance, or confess that their punishment was just,\r\nbecause they believed not? And it were the exercise of no ordinary\r\narbitrariness, for those who had departed before the advent of the\r\nLord (not having the gospel preached to them, and having afforded no\r\nground from themselves, in consequence of believing or not) to obtain\r\neither salvation or punishment. For it is not right that these should\r\nbe condemned without trial, and that those alone who lived after the\r\nadvent should have the advantage of the divine righteousness. But\r\nto all rational souls it was said from above, “Whatever one of you\r\nhas done in ignorance, without clearly knowing God, if, on becoming\r\nconscious, he repent, all his sins will be forgiven him.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_981\" id=\"FNanchor_981\">[981]</a> “For,\r\nbehold,” it is said, “I have set before your face death and life, that\r\nye may choose life.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_982\" id=\"FNanchor_982\">[982]</a> God says that He set, not that He made both,\r\nin order to the comparison of choice. And in another scripture He says,\r\n“If ye hear me, and be willing, ye shall eat the good of the land. But\r\nif ye hear me not, and are not willing, the sword shall devour you: for\r\nthe mouth of the Lord hath spoken these things.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_983\" id=\"FNanchor_983\">[983]</a></p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK VI.","CHAPTER VI. THE GOSPEL WAS PREACHED TO JEWS AND GENTILES IN HADES."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_983","paragraph_id":"pg73020-paragraph-713"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"e8df1a4eff0c7e8eec41904e03801ba1632ae1585e8a0f1b7f833a088c57df40","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"ISA","chapter":1,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Isa. i. 19","verse":19,"verse_end":19}],"headings":[],"id":"pg73020-Footnote_983","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_983","source_ebook":73020,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_983\" id=\"Footnote_983\">[983]</a> Isa. i. 19, 20.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"c35077683d75abe553cc6ef5d3ef5a1a978f07dfbcf4bad5c3d56302ad03dc19","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_983","text_sha256":"088dea95ef6e49a500bcb497f628b20c4cecd3b7d779cc2e3083eaba8e01dda9","verified":false,"work_id":null}