Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>But Judith too, who became perfect among women, in the siege of the\r\ncity, at the entreaty of the elders went forth into the strangers’\r\ncamp, despising all danger for her country’s sake, giving herself into\r\nthe enemy’s hand in faith in God; and straightway she obtained the\r\nreward of her faith,—though a woman, prevailing over the enemy of her\r\nfaith, and gaining possession of the head of Holofernes. And again,\r\nEsther perfect by faith, who rescued Israel from the power of the king\r\nand the satrap’s cruelty: a woman alone, afflicted with fastings,<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_626\" id=\"FNanchor_626\">[626]</a>\r\nheld back ten thousand armed<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_627\" id=\"FNanchor_627\">[627]</a> hands, annulling by her faith the\r\ntyrant’s decree; him indeed she appeased, Haman she restrained, and\r\nIsrael she preserved scathless by her perfect prayer to God. I pass\r\nover in silence Susanna and the sister of Moses, since the latter was\r\nthe prophet’s associate in commanding the host, being superior to all\r\nthe women among the Hebrews who were in repute for their wisdom; and\r\nthe former in her surpassing modesty, going even to death condemned by\r\nlicentious admirers, remained the unwavering martyr of chastity.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK IV.","CHAPTER XIX. WOMEN AS WELL AS MEN CAPABLE OF PERFECTION."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_627","paragraph_id":"pg73020-paragraph-245"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"b95ed004e170f260a23861abeb54d277e757d0f13b0a92b5a3419539cfe3d997","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_627","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_627","source_ebook":73020,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_627\" id=\"Footnote_627\">[627]</a> Sylburgius’ conjecture of ὡπλισμένας instead of\r\nὁπλισαμένας is here adopted.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"c35077683d75abe553cc6ef5d3ef5a1a978f07dfbcf4bad5c3d56302ad03dc19","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_627","text_sha256":"7917790926d3a630c8a6f9f9077f647454208226661d532e2a537316751875b5","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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