{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>We must then exercise ourselves in taking care about those things\r\nwhich fall under the power of the passions, fleeing like those who are\r\ntruly philosophers such articles of food as excite lust, and dissolute\r\nlicentiousness in chambering and luxury; and the sensations that tend\r\nto luxury, which are a solid reward to others, must no longer be so\r\nto us. For God’s greatest gift is self-restraint. For He Himself has\r\nsaid, “I will never leave thee, nor forsake thee,”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_239\" id=\"FNanchor_239\">[239]</a> as having\r\njudged thee worthy according to the true election. Thus, then, while we\r\nattempt piously to advance, we shall have put on us the mild yoke of\r\nthe Lord from faith to faith, one charioteer driving each of us onward\r\nto salvation, that the meet fruit of beatitude may be won. “<i>Exercise\r\nis</i>,” according to Hippocrates of Cos, “<i>not only the health of\r\nthe body, but of the soul—fearlessness of labours—a ravenous appetite\r\nfor food</i>.”</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK II.","CHAPTER XX. THE TRUE GNOSTIC EXERCISES PATIENCE AND SELF-RESTRAINT."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_239","paragraph_id":"pg73020-paragraph-117"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"639f41d2799b59aba464a737aacff651d26581a8c34cea0b49befe085d608abf","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"HEB","chapter":13,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Heb. xiii. 5","verse":5,"verse_end":5}],"headings":[],"id":"pg73020-Footnote_239","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_239","source_ebook":73020,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_239\" id=\"Footnote_239\">[239]</a> Heb. xiii. 5.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"c35077683d75abe553cc6ef5d3ef5a1a978f07dfbcf4bad5c3d56302ad03dc19","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_239","text_sha256":"ad1deb88cad70b1b9c1e429663d567b914b80c5b0f240d6d3db7e9511c7d808e","verified":false,"work_id":null}