Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"drop-cap p-left\">The Mosaic philosophy is accordingly divided into four parts,—into\r\nthe historic, and that which is specially called the legislative,\r\nwhich two properly belong to an ethical treatise; and the third, that\r\nwhich relates to sacrifice, which belongs to physical science; and\r\nthe fourth, above all, the department of theology, “vision,”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1077\" id=\"FNanchor_1077\">[1077]</a>\r\nwhich Plato predicates of the truly great mysteries. And this species\r\nAristotle calls metaphysics. Dialectics, according to Plato, is, as he\r\nsays in <i>The Statesman</i>, a science devoted to the discovery of the\r\nexplanation of things. And it is to be acquired by the wise man, not\r\nfor the sake of saying or doing aught of what we find among men (as\r\nthe dialecticians, who occupy themselves in sophistry, do), but to be\r\nable to say and do, as far as possible, what is pleasing to God. But\r\nthe true dialectic, being philosophy mixed with truth, by examining\r\nthings, and testing forces and powers, gradually ascends in relation\r\nto the most excellent essence of all, and essays to go beyond to the\r\nGod of the universe, professing not the knowledge of mortal affairs,\r\nbut the science of things divine and heavenly; in accordance with\r\nwhich follows a suitable course of practice with respect to words and\r\ndeeds, even in human affairs. Rightly, therefore, the Scripture, in\r\nits desire to make us such dialecticians, exhorts us: “Be ye skilful\r\nmoney-changers,”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1078\" id=\"FNanchor_1078\">[1078]</a> rejecting some things, but retaining what is\r\ngood. For this true dialectic is the science which analyses<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_468\">[468]</span> the\r\nobjects of thought, and shows abstractly and by itself the individual\r\nsubstratum of existences, or the power of dividing things into genera,\r\nwhich descends to their most special properties, and presents each\r\nindividual object to be contemplated simply such as it is.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","THE MISCELLANIES.","BOOK I.","CHAPTER XXVIII. THE FOURFOLD DIVISION OF THE MOSAIC LAW."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_1077","paragraph_id":"pg71937-paragraph-845"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"348ea341352544dc968685bc26327eb2f1825f06994b14340bf43afc0f9393ca","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_1077","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_1077","source_ebook":71937,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_1077\" id=\"Footnote_1077\">[1077]</a> ἐποπτεία, the third and highest grade of initiation\r\ninto the mysteries.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"8e5c5bc39922dbad2626ac7651c2eb2e3d94cdcbd721f781e9792143ebb1cd03","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/71937/pg71937-images.html#Footnote_1077","text_sha256":"15b397769e05501c75c826d1e188c18651348f0cafd358e5c632e14ad0d63727","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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