{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>But he who obeys the mere call, as he is called, neither for fear, nor\r\nfor enjoyments, is on his way to knowledge (γνῶσις). For he does not\r\nconsider whether any extrinsic lucrative gain or enjoyment follows to\r\nhim; but drawn by the love of Him who is the true object of love, and\r\nled to what is requisite, practises piety. So that not even were we\r\nto suppose him to receive from God leave to do things forbidden with\r\nimpunity; not even if he were to get the promise that he would receive\r\nas a reward the good things of the blessed; but besides, not even if\r\nhe could persuade himself that God would be hoodwinked with reference\r\nto what he does (which is impossible), would he ever wish to do aught\r\ncontrary to right reason, having once made choice of what is truly good\r\nand worthy of choice on its own account, and therefore to be loved.\r\nFor it is not in the food of the belly that we have heard good to be\r\nsituated. But he has heard that “meat will not commend us,”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_656\" id=\"FNanchor_656\">[656]</a> nor\r\nmarriage, nor abstinence from marriage in ignorance; but virtuous\r\ngnostic conduct. For the dog, which is an irrational animal, may be\r\nsaid to be continent, dreading as it does the uplifted stick, and\r\ntherefore keeping away from the meat. But let the predicted promise\r\nbe taken away, and the threatened dread cancelled, and the impending\r\ndanger removed, and the disposition of such people will be revealed.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK IV.","CHAPTER XXII. THE TRUE GNOSTIC DOES GOOD, NOT FROM FEAR OF PUNISHMENT OR HOPE OF REWARD, BUT ONLY FOR THE SAKE OF GOOD ITSELF."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_656","paragraph_id":"pg73020-paragraph-277"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"3d67a3aede6e76f7f561fa8f34c463a0baa9cf782fb71cd321485c90152492ca","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"1CO","chapter":8,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"1 Cor. viii. 8","verse":8,"verse_end":8}],"headings":[],"id":"pg73020-Footnote_656","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_656","source_ebook":73020,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_656\" id=\"Footnote_656\">[656]</a> 1 Cor. viii. 8.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"c35077683d75abe553cc6ef5d3ef5a1a978f07dfbcf4bad5c3d56302ad03dc19","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_656","text_sha256":"12428999e460783c7c0e7ffbd172998c5c1cd4408916929aaa90c62a337c2452","verified":false,"work_id":null}