Testimonia

{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"drop-cap p-left\">Wherefore the Saviour, taking the bread, first spake and blessed. Then\r\nbreaking the bread, He presented it, that we might eat it, according to\r\nreason, and that knowing the Scriptures we might walk obediently. And\r\nas those whose speech is evil are no better than those whose practice\r\nis evil (for calumny is the servant of the sword, and evil-speaking\r\ninflicts pain; and from these proceed disasters in life, such being the\r\neffects of evil speech); so also those who are given to good speech\r\nare near neighbours to those who accomplish good deeds. Accordingly\r\ndiscourse refreshes the soul and entices it to nobleness; and happy is\r\nhe who has the use of both his hands. Neither, therefore, is he who\r\ncan act well to be vilified by him who is able to speak well; nor is\r\nhe who is able to speak well to be disparaged by him who is capable of\r\nacting well. But let each do that for which he is naturally fitted.\r\nWhat the one exhibits as actually done, the other speaks, preparing,\r\nas it were, the way for well-doing, and leading the hearers to the\r\npractice of good. For there is a saving word, as there is a saving\r\nwork. Righteousness, accordingly, is not constituted without discourse.\r\nAnd as the receiving of good is abolished if we abolish the doing of\r\ngood; so obedience and faith are abolished when neither the command,\r\nnor one to expound the command, is taken along with us. But now we are\r\nbenefited mutually and reciprocally by words and deeds; but we must\r\nrepudiate entirely the art of wrangling and sophistry, since these\r\nsentences of the<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_382\">[382]</span> sophists not only bewitch and beguile the many, but\r\nsometimes by violence win a Cadmian victory.<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_885\" id=\"FNanchor_885\">[885]</a> For true above all\r\nis that psalm, “The just shall live to the end, for he shall not see\r\ncorruption, when he beholds the wise dying.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_886\" id=\"FNanchor_886\">[886]</a> And whom does he call\r\nwise? Hear from the Wisdom of Jesus: “Wisdom is not the knowledge of\r\nevil.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_887\" id=\"FNanchor_887\">[887]</a> Such he calls what the arts of speaking and of discussing\r\nhave invented. “Thou shalt therefore seek wisdom among the wicked, and\r\nshalt not find it.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_888\" id=\"FNanchor_888\">[888]</a> And if you inquire again of what sort this is,\r\nyou are told, “The mouth of the righteous man will distil wisdom.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_889\" id=\"FNanchor_889\">[889]</a>\r\nAnd similarly with truth, the art of sophistry is called wisdom.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","THE MISCELLANIES.","BOOK I.","CHAPTER X. TO ACT WELL OF GREATER CONSEQUENCE THAN TO SPEAK WELL."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_887","paragraph_id":"pg71937-paragraph-711"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"6756d9d24cc26307b81be2ab5e769ccb7eafb7408f4fec6bf51c5076263fb1bb","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":19,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Ecclus. xix. 22","verse":22,"verse_end":22}],"headings":[],"id":"pg71937-Footnote_887","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_887","source_ebook":71937,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_887\" id=\"Footnote_887\">[887]</a> Ecclus. xix. 22.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"8e5c5bc39922dbad2626ac7651c2eb2e3d94cdcbd721f781e9792143ebb1cd03","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/71937/pg71937-images.html#Footnote_887","text_sha256":"37c2215cc0503ffcbde2d4ecf038b77912586a0ce619d214d8522600bf547bb0","verified":false,"work_id":null}

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