Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>I do not pass over Empedocles, who speaks thus physically of the\r\nrenewal of all things, as consisting in a transmutation into the\r\nessence of fire, which is to take place. And most plainly of the\r\nsame opinion is Heraclitus of Ephesus, who considered that there was\r\na world everlasting, and recognised one perishable—that is, in its\r\narrangement, not being different from the former, viewed in a certain\r\naspect. But that he knew the imperishable world which consists of the\r\nuniversal essence to be everlastingly of a certain nature, he makes\r\nclear by speaking thus: “The same world of all things, neither any of\r\nthe gods, nor any one of men, made. But there was, and is, and will\r\nbe ever-living fire, kindled according to measure,<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_852\" id=\"FNanchor_852\">[852]</a> and quenched\r\naccording to measure.” And that he taught it to be generated and\r\nperishable, is shown by what follows: “There are transmutations of\r\nfire,—first, the sea; and of the sea the half is land, the half fiery\r\nvapour.” For he says that these are the effects of power. For fire is\r\nby the Word of God, which governs all things, changed by the air into\r\nmoisture, which is, as it were, the germ of cosmical change; and this\r\nhe calls sea. And out of it again is produced earth, and sky, and all\r\nthat they contain. How, again, they are restored and ignited, he shows\r\nclearly in these words: “The sea is diffused and measured according to\r\nthe same rule which subsisted before it became earth.” Similarly also\r\nrespecting the other elements, the same is to be understood. The most\r\nrenowned of the Stoics teach similar doctrines with him, in treating of\r\nthe conflagration and the government of the world, and both the world\r\nand man properly so called, and of the continuance of our souls.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK V.","CHAPTER XIV. GREEK PLAGIARISMS FROM THE HEBREWS."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_852","paragraph_id":"pg73020-paragraph-456"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"01ea12ca8f890b72b50727cdea1b381bf727a6f8fe8ffbf1e8b791735445dc31","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_852","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_852","source_ebook":73020,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_852\" id=\"Footnote_852\">[852]</a> Μέτρα is the reading of the text, but is plainly an\r\nerror for μέτρῳ, which is the reading of Eusebius.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"c35077683d75abe553cc6ef5d3ef5a1a978f07dfbcf4bad5c3d56302ad03dc19","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_852","text_sha256":"e33498a22af11045c82164f5f8b7ea5c60afb9149a0168a485bb9af2304fa97c","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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