Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Then Heraclitus says, “Gods and men honour those slain in battle;” and\r\nPlato in the fifth book of the <i>Republic</i> writes, “Of those who\r\ndie in military service, whoever dies after winning renown, shall we\r\nnot say that he is chief of the golden race? Most assuredly.” But the\r\ngolden race is with the gods, who are in heaven, in the fixed sphere,\r\nwho chiefly hold command in the providence exercised towards men. Now\r\nsome of the heretics who have misunderstood the Lord, have at once an\r\nimpious and cowardly love of life; saying that the true martyrdom is\r\nthe knowledge of the only true God (which we also admit), and that the\r\nman is a self-murderer and a suicide who makes confession by death;\r\nand adducing other similar sophisms of cowardice. To these we shall\r\nreply at the proper time; for they differ with us in regard to first\r\nprinciples. Now we, too, say that those who have rushed on death (for\r\nthere are some, not belonging to us, but sharing the name merely, who\r\nare in haste to give themselves up, the poor wretches dying through\r\nhatred to the Creator<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_498\" id=\"FNanchor_498\">[498]</a>)—these, we say, banish themselves without\r\nbeing martyrs, even though they are punished publicly. For they do not\r\npreserve the characteristic mark of believing martyrdom, inasmuch as\r\nthey have not known the only true God, but give themselves up to a vain\r\ndeath, as the Gymnosophists of the Indians to useless fire.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK IV.","CHAPTER IV. THE PRAISES OF MARTYRDOM."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_498","paragraph_id":"pg73020-paragraph-188"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"120d321581d8c1e97ce065b8c3e91a9dadc6885dabda4965815672fa8dbf64c0","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_498","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_498","source_ebook":73020,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_498\" id=\"Footnote_498\">[498]</a> Demiurgus.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"c35077683d75abe553cc6ef5d3ef5a1a978f07dfbcf4bad5c3d56302ad03dc19","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_498","text_sha256":"e9ff1f789ae8f3171fde8b93c1fde64f206ffeb84ef017861d38ba0f15317ef9","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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