Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c005\">When you have read and carefully listened to these things,\r\nyou shall know what God bestows on such as rightly love\r\nHim, being made [as ye are] a paradise of delight, presenting<a id=\"r1521\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1521\"><sup>[1521]</sup></a>\r\nin yourselves a tree bearing all kinds of produce and flourishing\r\nwell, being adorned with various fruits. For in this\r\nplace<a id=\"r1522\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1522\"><sup>[1522]</sup></a> the tree of knowledge and the tree of life have been\r\nplanted; but it is not the tree of knowledge that destroys—it\r\nis disobedience that proves destructive. Nor truly are\r\nthose words without significance which are written, how God\r\nfrom the beginning planted the tree of life in the midst of\r\nparadise, revealing through knowledge the way to life,<a id=\"r1523\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1523\"><sup>[1523]</sup></a> and\r\n<span class=\"pageno\" id=\"Page_316\">316</span>when those who were first formed did not use this [knowledge]\r\nproperly, they were, through the fraud of the serpent, stripped\r\nnaked.<a id=\"r1524\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1524\"><sup>[1524]</sup></a> For neither can life exist without knowledge, nor\r\nis knowledge secure without life. Wherefore both were\r\nplanted close together. The apostle, perceiving the force [of\r\nthis conjunction], and blaming that knowledge which, without\r\ntrue doctrine, is admitted to influence life,<a id=\"r1525\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1525\"><sup>[1525]</sup></a> declares,\r\n“Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth.” For he who\r\nthinks he knows anything without true knowledge, and such\r\nas is witnessed to by life, knows nothing, but is deceived by\r\nthe serpent, as not<a id=\"r1526\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1526\"><sup>[1526]</sup></a> loving life. But he who combines\r\nknowledge with fear, and seeks after life, plants in hope,\r\nlooking for fruit. Let your heart be your wisdom; and let\r\nyour life be true knowledge<a id=\"r1527\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1527\"><sup>[1527]</sup></a> inwardly received. Bearing\r\nthis tree and displaying its fruit, thou shalt always gather<a id=\"r1528\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1528\"><sup>[1528]</sup></a> in\r\nthose things which are desired by God, which the serpent\r\ncannot reach, and to which deception does not approach;\r\nnor is Eve then corrupted,<a id=\"r1529\"></a><a class=\"c009 pginternal\" href=\"#f1529\"><sup>[1529]</sup></a> but is trusted as a virgin; and\r\nsalvation is manifested, and the apostles are filled with understanding,\r\nand the passover of the Lord advances, and the\r\nchoirs are gathered together, and are arranged in proper\r\norder, and the Word rejoices in teaching the saints,—by\r\nwhom the Father is glorified: to whom be glory for ever.\r\nAmen.</p>","headings":["The Writings of the Apostolic Fathers","THE EPISTLE TO DIOGNETUS.","THE EPISTLE TO DIOGNETUS.","Chap. xii.—The importance of knowledge to true spiritual life."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg77576-paragraph-645"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"a76af530acfd0456a41b2c7f217fd4a70e20ae468bbafa79d537151694333693","edition_title":"The writings of the Apostolic Fathers","edition_translators":["Alexander Roberts","James Donaldson","Frederick Crombie"],"edition_year":1870,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg77576-f1522","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. Historical 1870 English edition; electronic transcription subject to Project Gutenberg reuse terms.","source_anchor":"f1522","source_ebook":77576,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f1522\">\n<p class=\"c006\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r1522\">1522</a>.  </span>That is, in Paradise.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"5cef11d737d7f5d65aa99f44ca2d8e967d725f3bed872960330e88c0905597a9","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/77576/pg77576-images.html#f1522","text_sha256":"b3a7572c0a9d16429f4b411c2a73a9cef94b08fcc361aa578c4ee0c6a6f60340","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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