{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>And that the men of highest repute among the Greeks knew God, not by\r\npositive knowledge, but by indirect expression,<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_960\" id=\"FNanchor_960\">[960]</a> Peter says in\r\nthe <i>Preaching</i>: “Know then that there is one God, who made the\r\nbeginning of all things, and holds the power of the end; and is the\r\nInvisible, who sees all things; incapable of being contained, who\r\ncontains all things; needing nothing, whom all things need, and by whom\r\nthey are; incomprehensible, everlasting, unmade, who made all things by\r\nthe ‘Word of His power,’ that is, according to the gnostic scripture,\r\nHis Son.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_961\" id=\"FNanchor_961\">[961]</a></p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK VI.","CHAPTER V. THE GREEKS HAD SOME KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUE GOD."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_960","paragraph_id":"pg73020-paragraph-702"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"644d30c602d3061cfb7144576d7c1f6c311f28c02fae8c3c834201fe067fc245","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_960","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_960","source_ebook":73020,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_960\" id=\"Footnote_960\">[960]</a> We have the same statement made, <i>Stromata</i> i.\r\n19, Ante-Nicene Lib. p. 413, Potter 372; also v. 14, Ante-Nicene\r\nLib. p. 298, Potter 730,—in all of which Lowth adopts περίφρασιν\r\nas the true reading, instead of περίφασιν. In the first of these\r\npassages, Clement instances as one of the circumlocutions or roundabout\r\nexpressions by which God was known to the Greek poets and philosophers,\r\n“<i>The Unknown God</i>.” Joannes Clericus proposes to read παράφασιν\r\n(<i>palpitatio</i>), touching, feeling after.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"c35077683d75abe553cc6ef5d3ef5a1a978f07dfbcf4bad5c3d56302ad03dc19","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_960","text_sha256":"976647e815038a2fb18258e0b990adc130958c67ffc24c9f10b65a206811392c","verified":false,"work_id":null}