{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"p-left\">It is He who truly shows how we are to know ourselves. It\r\nis He who reveals the Father of the universe to whom He wills, and as\r\nfar as human nature can comprehend. “For no man knoweth the Son but\r\nthe Father, nor the Father but the Son, and he to whom the Son shall\r\nreveal Him.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1080\" id=\"FNanchor_1080\">[1080]</a> Rightly, then, the apostle says that it was by\r\nrevelation that he knew the mystery: “As I wrote afore in few words,\r\naccording as ye are able to understand my knowledge in the mystery\r\nof Christ.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1081\" id=\"FNanchor_1081\">[1081]</a> “According as ye are able,” he said, since he knew\r\nthat some had received milk only, and had not yet received meat,\r\nnor even milk simply. The sense of the law is to be taken in three\r\nways,<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1082\" id=\"FNanchor_1082\">[1082]</a>—either as exhibiting a symbol, or laying down a precept\r\nfor right conduct, or as uttering a prophecy. But I well know that it\r\nbelongs to men [of full age] to distinguish and declare these things.\r\nFor the whole Scripture is not in its meaning a single Myconos, as the\r\nproverbial expression has it; but those who hunt after the connection\r\nof the divine teaching, must approach it with the utmost perfection of\r\nthe logical faculty.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","THE MISCELLANIES.","BOOK I.","CHAPTER XXVIII. THE FOURFOLD DIVISION OF THE MOSAIC LAW."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_1082","paragraph_id":"pg71937-paragraph-847"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"4740b651273287abfa683128b33b348afad6afb82120416e96327e2ad867c464","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_1082","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_1082","source_ebook":71937,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_1082\" id=\"Footnote_1082\">[1082]</a> The text has τετραχῶς, which is either a mistake for\r\nτριχῶς, or belongs to a clause which is wanting. The author asserts the\r\ntriple sense of Scripture—the mystic, the moral, and the prophetic.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"8e5c5bc39922dbad2626ac7651c2eb2e3d94cdcbd721f781e9792143ebb1cd03","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/71937/pg71937-images.html#Footnote_1082","text_sha256":"b73876fcae115079d1b18a88e27eb2410225188bc7c2bd23c0c4163ab6c3525d","verified":false,"work_id":null}