Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>These points being demonstrated, let us recur again to our discourse\r\non faith. Well, with the fullest demonstration, Plato proves, that\r\nthere is need of faith everywhere, celebrating peace at the same\r\ntime: “For no man will ever be trusty and sound in seditions without\r\nentire virtue. There are numbers of mercenaries full of fight, and\r\nwilling to die in war; but, with a very few exceptions, the most of\r\nthem are desperadoes and villains, insolent and senseless.” If these\r\nobservations are right, “every legislator who is even of slight use,\r\nwill, in making his laws, have an eye to the greatest virtue. Such\r\nis fidelity,”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_51\" id=\"FNanchor_51\">[51]</a> which we need at all times, both in<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_15\">[15]</span> peace and in\r\nwar, and in all the rest of our life, for it appears to embrace the\r\nother virtues. “But the best thing is neither war nor sedition, for\r\nthe necessity of these is to be deprecated. But peace with one another\r\nand kindly feeling are what is best.” From these remarks the greatest\r\nprayer evidently is to have peace, according to Plato. And faith is\r\nthe greatest mother of the virtues. Accordingly it is rightly said\r\nin Solomon, “Wisdom is in the mouth of the faithful.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_52\" id=\"FNanchor_52\">[52]</a> Since also\r\nXenocrates, in his book on “Intelligence,” says “that wisdom is the\r\nknowledge of first causes and of intellectual essence.” He considers\r\nintelligence as twofold, practical and theoretical, which latter is\r\nhuman wisdom. Consequently wisdom is intelligence, but all intelligence\r\nis not wisdom. And it has been shown, that the knowledge of the first\r\ncause of the universe is of faith, but is not demonstration. For it\r\nwere strange that the followers of the Samian Pythagoras, rejecting\r\ndemonstrations of subjects of question, should regard the bare\r\n<i>ipse dixit</i><a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_53\" id=\"FNanchor_53\">[53]</a> as ground of belief; and that this expression\r\nalone sufficed for the confirmation of what they heard, while those\r\ndevoted to the contemplation of the truth, presuming to disbelieve the\r\ntrustworthy Teacher, God the only Saviour, should demand of Him tests\r\nof His utterances. But He says, “He that hath ears to hear, let him\r\nhear.” And who is he? Let Epicharmus say:</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK II.","CHAPTER V. HE PROVES BY SEVERAL EXAMPLES THAT THE GREEKS DREW FROM THE SACRED WRITERS."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_52","paragraph_id":"pg73020-paragraph-34"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"eba198afd92f3f768073d21fd68f1d219de2edfd4ac42e0f7fff3e843154fe04","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"SIR","chapter":15,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Ecclus. xv. 10","verse":10,"verse_end":10}],"headings":[],"id":"pg73020-Footnote_52","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_52","source_ebook":73020,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_52\" id=\"Footnote_52\">[52]</a> Ecclus. xv. 10.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"c35077683d75abe553cc6ef5d3ef5a1a978f07dfbcf4bad5c3d56302ad03dc19","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_52","text_sha256":"5984d8b7a16b1dd213a0bff828444adee774f29dc2c55d82e56533ac9ffc62c9","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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