{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Such David describes the church: “The queen stood on thy right hand,\r\nenveloped in a golden robe, variegated;”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1052\" id=\"FNanchor_1052\">[1052]</a> and with Hellenic and\r\nsuperabundant accomplishments, “clothed variegated with gold-fringed\r\ngarments.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1053\" id=\"FNanchor_1053\">[1053]</a> And the Truth says by the Lord, “For who had known\r\nThy counsel, hadst Thou not given wisdom, and sent Thy Holy Spirit\r\nfrom the Highest; and so the ways of those on earth were corrected,\r\nand men learned Thy decrees, and were saved by wisdom?” For the\r\nGnostic knows things ancient by the Scripture, and conjectures things\r\nfuture: he understands the involutions of words and the solutions of\r\nenigmas. He knows beforehand signs and wonders, and the issues of\r\nseasons and periods, as we have said already. Seest thou the fountain\r\nof instructions that takes its rise from wisdom? But to those who\r\nobject, What use is there in knowing the causes of the manner of\r\nthe sun’s motion, for example, and the rest of the heavenly bodies,\r\nor in having studied the theorems of geometry or logic, and each of\r\nthe other branches of study?—for these are of no service in the\r\ndischarge of duties, and the Hellenic philosophy is human wisdom, for\r\nit is incapable of teaching<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1054\" id=\"FNanchor_1054\">[1054]</a> the truth—the following remarks\r\nare to be made. First, that they stumble in reference to the highest\r\nof things—namely, the mind’s free choice. “For they,” it is said,\r\n“who keep holy holy things, shall be made holy; and those who have\r\nbeen taught will find an answer.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1055\" id=\"FNanchor_1055\">[1055]</a> For the Gnostic alone will do\r\nholily, in<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_358\">[358]</span> accordance with reason all that has to be done, as he hath\r\nlearned through the Lord’s teaching, received through men.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK VI.","CHAPTER XI. THE MYSTICAL MEANINGS IN THE PROPORTIONS OF NUMBERS, GEOMETRICAL RATIOS, AND MUSIC."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_1052","paragraph_id":"pg73020-paragraph-773"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"f144299cae10b767950323604dec3fa51e37711592a6553d4cb9ef7e748aa257","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"PSA","chapter":45,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Ps. xlv. 10","verse":10,"verse_end":10}],"headings":[],"id":"pg73020-Footnote_1052","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_1052","source_ebook":73020,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_1052\" id=\"Footnote_1052\">[1052]</a> Ps. xlv. 10.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"c35077683d75abe553cc6ef5d3ef5a1a978f07dfbcf4bad5c3d56302ad03dc19","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_1052","text_sha256":"7b69f7565cc4386a44fe60fadcf240d1db34df38cc55b586ca985a25b8a02623","verified":false,"work_id":null}