Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>I had almost forgot to say that the well-known Pittacus, king of\r\nMiletus, practised the laborious exercise of turning the mill.<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_695\" id=\"FNanchor_695\">[695]</a>\r\nIt is respectable for a man to draw water for himself, and to cut\r\nbillets of wood which he is to use himself. Jacob fed the sheep of\r\nLaban that were left in his charge, having as a royal badge “a rod of\r\nstorax,”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_696\" id=\"FNanchor_696\">[696]</a> which aimed by its wood to change and improve nature. And\r\nreading aloud is often an exercise to many. But let not such athletic\r\ncontests, as we have allowed, be undertaken for the sake of vainglory,\r\nbut for the exuding of manly sweat. Nor are we to struggle with cunning\r\nand showiness, but in a stand-up wrestling bout, by disentangling of\r\nneck, hands, and sides. For such a struggle with graceful strength is\r\nmore becoming and manly, being undertaken for the sake of serviceable\r\nand profitable health. But let those others, who profess the practice\r\nof illiberal postures in gymnastics, be dismissed. We must always aim\r\nat moderation. For as it is best that labour should precede food, so to\r\nlabour above measure is both very bad, very exhausting, and apt to make\r\nus ill. Neither, then, should we be idle altogether, nor completely\r\nfatigued. For similarly to what we have laid down with respect to food,\r\nare we to do everywhere and with everything. Our mode of life is not to\r\naccustom us to voluptuousness and licentiousness, nor to the<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_312\">[312]</span> opposite\r\nextreme, but to the medium between these, that which is harmonious and\r\ntemperate, and free of either evil, luxury and parsimony. And now, as\r\nwe have also previously remarked, attending to one’s own wants is an\r\nexercise free of pride,—as, for example, putting on one’s own shoes,\r\nwashing one’s own feet, and also rubbing one’s self when anointed with\r\noil. To render one who has rubbed you the same service in return, is an\r\nexercise of reciprocal justice; and to sleep beside a sick friend, help\r\nthe infirm, and supply him who is in want, are proper exercises. “And\r\nAbraham,” it is said, “served up for three, dinner under a tree, and\r\nwaited on them as they ate.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_697\" id=\"FNanchor_697\">[697]</a> The same with fishing, as in the case\r\nof Peter, if we have leisure from necessary instructions in the Word.\r\nBut that is the better sport which the Lord assigned to the disciple,\r\nwhen He taught him to “catch men” as fishes in the water.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","THE INSTRUCTOR.","BOOK III.","CHAPTER X. THE EXERCISES SUITED TO A GOOD LIFE."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_695","paragraph_id":"pg71937-paragraph-557"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"4a506143ed259154bf742d7c813d5c0baa47ab0d22ab21407734162f074841d0","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_695","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_695","source_ebook":71937,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_695\" id=\"Footnote_695\">[695]</a> The text has ἦλθεν. The true reading, doubtless, is\r\nἤληθεν. That Pittacus exercised himself thus, is stated by Isidore of\r\nPelusium, Diogenes, Laertius, Plutarch.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"8e5c5bc39922dbad2626ac7651c2eb2e3d94cdcbd721f781e9792143ebb1cd03","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/71937/pg71937-images.html#Footnote_695","text_sha256":"5924d71a81b4c3c450f12f5915bfc476faa68ced8b50fd8c3cea493ebcc7ee42","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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