Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>The Stoics also, whom he mentions too, say not well that the Deity,\r\nbeing a body, pervades the vilest matter. He calls the jugglery\r\nof logic “the tradition of men.” Wherefore also he adds, “Avoid\r\njuvenile<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_901\" id=\"FNanchor_901\">[901]</a> questions. For such contentions are puerile.” “But virtue\r\nis no lover of boys,” says the philosopher Plato. And our struggle,\r\naccording to Gorgias Leontinus, requires two virtues—boldness and\r\nwisdom,—boldness to undergo danger, and wisdom to understand the\r\nenigma. For the Word, like the Olympian proclamation, calls him who is\r\nwilling, and crowns him who is able to continue unmoved as far as the\r\ntruth is concerned. And, in truth, the Word does not wish him who has\r\nbelieved to be idle. For He says, “Seek, and ye shall find.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_902\" id=\"FNanchor_902\">[902]</a> But\r\nseeking ends in finding, driving out the empty trifling, and approving\r\nof the contemplation which confirms our faith. “And this I say, lest\r\nany man beguile you with enticing words,”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_903\" id=\"FNanchor_903\">[903]</a> says the apostle,\r\nevidently as having learned to distinguish what was said by him, and\r\nas being taught to meet objections. “As ye have therefore received\r\nChrist Jesus the Lord, so walk in Him, rooted and built up in Him, and\r\nstablished in the faith.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_904\" id=\"FNanchor_904\">[904]</a> Now persuasion is [the means of] being\r\nestablished in the faith. “Beware lest any man spoil you of faith in\r\nChrist by philosophy and vain deceit,” which does away with providence,\r\n“after the tradition of men;” for the philosophy which is in accordance\r\nwith divine tradition establishes and confirms providence, which,\r\nbeing done away with, the economy of the Saviour appears a myth, while\r\nwe are influenced “after the elements of the world, and not after\r\nChrist.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_905\" id=\"FNanchor_905\">[905]</a> For the teaching which is agreeable to Christ deifies\r\nthe Creator, and traces providence in particular events, and knows\r\nthe nature of the elements to be capable of change and production,\r\nand teaches that we ought to aim at rising up to the power which\r\nassimilates to God, and to prefer the dispensation<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_906\" id=\"FNanchor_906\">[906]</a> as holding the\r\nfirst rank and superior to all training.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","THE MISCELLANIES.","BOOK I.","CHAPTER XI. WHAT IS THE PHILOSOPHY WHICH THE APOSTLE BIDS US SHUN?"],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_906","paragraph_id":"pg71937-paragraph-714"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"4c0ddf04428ad7438f8d7c2d3fa82c952ec26a525322c5fd694b214cecc047e4","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_906","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_906","source_ebook":71937,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_906\" id=\"Footnote_906\">[906]</a> <i>i.e.</i> of the gospel.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"8e5c5bc39922dbad2626ac7651c2eb2e3d94cdcbd721f781e9792143ebb1cd03","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/71937/pg71937-images.html#Footnote_906","text_sha256":"a59959c79e332670e6759bfcf9b28258e5fda2fca29f93c456d2268eefebde8b","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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