Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>“Now the wild olive is inserted into the fatness of the olive,”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1121\" id=\"FNanchor_1121\">[1121]</a>\r\nand is indeed of the same species as the cultivated olives. For the\r\ngraft uses as soil the tree in which it is engrafted. Now all the\r\nplants sprouted forth simultaneously in consequence of the divine\r\norder. Wherefore also,<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_373\">[373]</span> though the wild olive be wild, it crowns the\r\nOlympic victors. And the elm teaches the vine to be fruitful, by\r\nleading it up to a height. Now we see that wild trees attract more\r\nnutriment, because they cannot ripen. The wild trees, therefore, have\r\nless power of secretion than those that are cultivated. And the cause\r\nof their wildness is the want of the power of secretion. The engrafted\r\nolive accordingly receives more nutriment from its growing in the wild\r\none; and it gets accustomed, as it were, to secrete the nutriment,\r\nbecoming thus assimilated<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1122\" id=\"FNanchor_1122\">[1122]</a> to the fatness of the cultivated tree.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK VI.","CHAPTER XV. DIFFERENT DEGREES OF KNOWLEDGE."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_1122","paragraph_id":"pg73020-paragraph-809"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"adc7af3bbc134912bdeacb7485050667cf680ce68c25adfc76ba995fedc84e1d","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg73020-Footnote_1122","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_1122","source_ebook":73020,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_1122\" id=\"Footnote_1122\">[1122]</a> <i>i.e.</i> the graft is assimilated; so the Latin\r\ntranslator. But in the text we have συνεξομοιουμένῃ, dative, agreeing\r\nwith fatness, which seems to be a mistake.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"c35077683d75abe553cc6ef5d3ef5a1a978f07dfbcf4bad5c3d56302ad03dc19","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_1122","text_sha256":"e6ba707db15f77d114dea73c33f583970d34713a5e9182d20524b03737e20c7c","verified":false,"work_id":null}

references: [] | work_id: | origin: existing-private-derived-record | source: https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_1122