Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>He is the Gnostic, who is after the image and likeness of God, who\r\nimitates God as far as possible, deficient in none of the things\r\nwhich contribute to the likeness as far as compatible, practising\r\nself-restraint and endurance, living righteously, reigning over the\r\npassions, bestowing of what he has as far as possible, and doing good\r\nboth by word and deed. “He is the greatest,” it is said, “in the\r\nkingdom who shall do and teach;”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_206\" id=\"FNanchor_206\">[206]</a> imitating God in conferring like\r\nbenefits. For God’s gifts are for the common good. “Whoever shall\r\nattempt to do aught with presumption, provokes God,”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_207\" id=\"FNanchor_207\">[207]</a> it is said.\r\nFor haughtiness is a vice of the soul, of which, as of other sins,\r\nHe commands us to repent; by adjusting our lives from their state of\r\nderangement to the change for the better in these three things—mouth,\r\nheart, hands. These are signs—the hands of action, the heart of\r\nvolition, the mouth of speech. Beautifully, therefore, has this\r\noracle been spoken with respect to penitents: “Thou hast chosen God\r\nthis day to be thy God; and God hath chosen thee this day to be His\r\npeople.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_208\" id=\"FNanchor_208\">[208]</a> For him who hastes to serve the self-existent One, being\r\na suppliant,<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_209\" id=\"FNanchor_209\">[209]</a> God adopts to Himself; and though he be only one in\r\nnumber, he is honoured equally with the people. For being a part of the\r\npeople, he becomes complementary<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_58\">[58]</span> of it, being restored from what he\r\nwas; and the whole is named from a part.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK II.","CHAPTER XIX. THE TRUE GNOSTIC IS AN IMITATOR OF GOD, ESPECIALLY IN BENEFICENCE."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_209","paragraph_id":"pg73020-paragraph-89"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"342bd945b5182472759685180e17a734e66093a233d4ca5bbf85df67fe995d6d","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_209","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_209","source_ebook":73020,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_209\" id=\"Footnote_209\">[209]</a> ἱκέτην has been adopted from Philo, instead of οἰκέτην\r\nof the text.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"c35077683d75abe553cc6ef5d3ef5a1a978f07dfbcf4bad5c3d56302ad03dc19","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_209","text_sha256":"cd6f71ef17f2f8862d5e902e498617bdf5a457333777e6373f133ec0d1b0756a","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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