Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>To resume, then: we have showed that in the department of medicine,\r\nfor healing, and sometimes also for moderate recreation, the delight\r\nderived from flowers, and the benefit derived from unguents and\r\nperfumes, are not to be overlooked. And if some say, What pleasure,\r\nthen, is there in flowers to those that do not use them? let them\r\nknow, then, that unguents are prepared from them, and are most useful.\r\nThe Susinian ointment is made from various kinds of lilies; and\r\nit is warming, aperient, drawing, moistening, abstergent, subtle,\r\nantibilious, emollient. The Narcissinian is made from the narcissus,\r\nand is equally beneficial with the Susinian. The Myrsinian, made of\r\nmyrtle and myrtle berries, is a styptic, stopping effusions from the\r\nbody; and that from roses is refrigerating. For, in a word, these also\r\nwere created for our use. “Hear me,” it is said, “and grow as a rose\r\nplanted by the streams of waters, and give forth a sweet fragrance like\r\nfrankincense, and bless the Lord for His works.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_555\" id=\"FNanchor_555\">[555]</a> We should have\r\nmuch to say respecting them, were we to speak of flowers and odours\r\nas made for necessary purposes, and not for the excesses of luxury.\r\nAnd if a concession must be made, it is enough for people to enjoy the\r\nfragrance of flowers; but let them not crown themselves with them. For\r\nthe Father takes great care of man, and gives to him alone His own art.\r\nThe Scripture therefore says, “Water, and fire, and iron, and milk, and\r\nfine flour of wheat, and honey, the blood of the grape, and oil, and\r\nclothing,—all these things are for the good of the godly.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_556\" id=\"FNanchor_556\">[556]</a></p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","THE INSTRUCTOR.","BOOK II.","CHAPTER VIII. ON THE USE OF OINTMENTS AND CROWNS."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_555","paragraph_id":"pg71937-paragraph-421"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"f1b07eb82ffd8287e66533c05399529dba5c108a106d6aa0f97b2fd741cb1942","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1867,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"SIR","chapter":39,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Ecclus. xxxix. 17","verse":17,"verse_end":17}],"headings":[],"id":"pg71937-Footnote_555","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_555","source_ebook":71937,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_555\" id=\"Footnote_555\">[555]</a> Ecclus. xxxix. 17, 18, 19.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"8e5c5bc39922dbad2626ac7651c2eb2e3d94cdcbd721f781e9792143ebb1cd03","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/71937/pg71937-images.html#Footnote_555","text_sha256":"538fd98c2a170d47af048f81acf419a4320672a8b9e5697cdf045de55b966790","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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