{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Wherefore also the Egyptians, in the purifications practised among\r\nthem, do not allow the priests to feed on flesh; but they use chickens,\r\nas lightest; and they do not touch fish, on account of certain fables,\r\nbut especially on account of such food making the flesh flabby. But\r\nnow terrestrial animals and birds breathe the same air as our vital\r\nspirits, being possessed of a vital principle cognate with the air.\r\nBut it is said that fishes do not breathe this air, but that which was\r\nmixed with the water at the instant of its first creation, as well as\r\nwith the rest of the elements, which is also a sign of the permanence\r\nof matter.<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1236\" id=\"FNanchor_1236\">[1236]</a></p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK VII.","CHAPTER VI. PRAYERS AND PRAISE FROM A PURE MIND, CEASELESSLY OFFERED, FAR BETTER THAN SACRIFICES."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_1236","paragraph_id":"pg73020-paragraph-995"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"71deb1c858d9953754944b34ca69df17318f9e8d8630c9e8259ba16f37c3a0b8","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_1236","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_1236","source_ebook":73020,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_1236\" id=\"Footnote_1236\">[1236]</a> Or, of water. For instead of ὑλὶκῆς in the text, it is\r\nproposed to read ὑδατικῆς.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"c35077683d75abe553cc6ef5d3ef5a1a978f07dfbcf4bad5c3d56302ad03dc19","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_1236","text_sha256":"2812ea42fa5fa718e47419de1bfd03a9c21ea7cb9ab7269f966eaf795010aaa7","verified":false,"work_id":null}