Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>“As seems to me,” says the comedy, “it is time<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_720\" id=\"FNanchor_720\">[720]</a> to abandon\r\nmeretricious steps and luxury.” And the steps of harlotry lean not to\r\nthe truth; for they approach not the paths of life. Her tracks are\r\ndangerous, and not easily known.<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_721\" id=\"FNanchor_721\">[721]</a> The eyes especially are to be\r\nsparingly used, since it is better to slip with the feet than with the\r\neyes.<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_722\" id=\"FNanchor_722\">[722]</a> Accordingly, the Lord very summarily cures this malady: “If\r\nthine eye offend thee, cut it out,”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_723\" id=\"FNanchor_723\">[723]</a> He says, dragging lust up\r\nfrom the foundation. But languishing looks, and ogling, which is to\r\nwink with the eyes, is nothing else than to commit adultery with the\r\neyes, lust skirmishing through them. For of the whole body, the eyes\r\nare first destroyed. “The eye contemplating beautiful objects (καλὰ),\r\ngladdens the heart;” that is, the eye which has learned rightly (καλῶς)\r\nto see, gladdens. “Winking with the eye, with guile, heaps woes on\r\nmen.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_724\" id=\"FNanchor_724\">[724]</a> Such they introduce the effeminate Sardanapalus, king of\r\nthe Assyrians, sitting on a couch with his<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_323\">[323]</span> legs up, fumbling at his\r\npurple robe, and casting up the whites of his eyes. Women that follow\r\nsuch practices, by their looks offer themselves for prostitution. “For\r\nthe light of the body is the eye,” says the Scripture, by which the\r\ninterior illuminated by the shining light appears. Fornication in a\r\nwoman is in the raising of the eyes.<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_725\" id=\"FNanchor_725\">[725]</a></p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","THE INSTRUCTOR.","BOOK III.","CHAPTER XI. A COMPENDIOUS VIEW OF THE CHRISTIAN LIFE."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_722","paragraph_id":"pg71937-paragraph-590"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"c127d028dca46f830a4b3543ab0e0acc3ef29659c7f16fe1442cb7e79222f770","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1867,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg71937-Footnote_722","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_722","source_ebook":71937,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_722\" id=\"Footnote_722\">[722]</a> An imitation of Zeno’s saying, “It is better to slip\r\nwith the feet than the tongue.”</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"8e5c5bc39922dbad2626ac7651c2eb2e3d94cdcbd721f781e9792143ebb1cd03","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/71937/pg71937-images.html#Footnote_722","text_sha256":"66ea7391814a92867add46e9fab1489eab4409e23261a2b1fe828120b0bcf95f","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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