{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"p-left\">To these statements the apostle will testify: “I know\r\na man in Christ, caught up into the third heaven, and thence into<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_268\">[268]</span>\r\nParadise, who heard unutterable words which it is not lawful for a man\r\nto speak,”—intimating thus the impossibility of expressing God, and\r\nindicating that what is divine is unutterable by human<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_816\" id=\"FNanchor_816\">[816]</a> power; if,\r\nindeed, he begins to speak above the third heaven, as it is lawful to\r\ninitiate the elect souls in the mysteries there. For I know what is\r\nin Plato (for the examples from the barbarian philosophy, which are\r\nmany, are suggested now by the composition which, in accordance with\r\npromises previously given, waits the suitable time). For doubting,\r\nin <i>Timæus</i>, whether we ought to regard several worlds as to be\r\nunderstood by many heavens, or this one, he makes no distinction in the\r\nnames, calling the world and heaven by the same name. But the words of\r\nthe statement are as follows: “Whether, then, have we rightly spoken\r\nof one heaven, or of many and infinite? It were more correct to say\r\none, if indeed it was created according to the model.” Further, in\r\nthe Epistle of the Romans to the Corinthians it is written, “An ocean\r\nillimitable by men and the worlds after it.” Consequently, therefore,\r\nthe noble apostle exclaims, “Oh the depth of the riches both of the\r\nwisdom and the knowledge of God!”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_817\" id=\"FNanchor_817\">[817]</a></p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK V.","CHAPTER XII. GOD CANNOT BE EMBRACED IN WORDS OR BY THE MIND."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_817","paragraph_id":"pg73020-paragraph-411"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"84d44c3294bfed5d7a26f3169ba49107b9bed05d6d183171bb10d8eb275247b1","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"ROM","chapter":11,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Rom. xi. 33","verse":33,"verse_end":33}],"headings":[],"id":"pg73020-Footnote_817","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_817","source_ebook":73020,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_817\" id=\"Footnote_817\">[817]</a> Rom. xi. 33.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"c35077683d75abe553cc6ef5d3ef5a1a978f07dfbcf4bad5c3d56302ad03dc19","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_817","text_sha256":"bed1c3cf6943824b733e9aae0c8cfb2040b43a8d9bb52a0a26d7a8cc10ed7782","verified":false,"work_id":null}