{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>And should one say that it was through human understanding that\r\nphilosophy was discovered by the Greeks, still I find the Scriptures\r\nsaying that understanding is sent by God. The psalmist, accordingly,\r\nconsiders understanding as the greatest free gift, and beseeches,\r\nsaying, “I am Thy servant; give me understanding.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1009\" id=\"FNanchor_1009\">[1009]</a> And does not\r\nDavid, while asking the abundant experience of knowledge, write, “Teach\r\nme gentleness, and discipline, and knowledge: for I have believed\r\nin Thy commandments?”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1010\" id=\"FNanchor_1010\">[1010]</a> He confessed the covenants to be of the\r\nhighest authority, and that they were given to the more excellent.\r\nAccordingly the psalm again says of God, “He hath not done thus to\r\nany nation; and He hath not shown His judgments to them.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1011\" id=\"FNanchor_1011\">[1011]</a> The\r\nexpression “He hath not done so” shows that <i>He hath done</i>, but\r\nnot “thus.” The “thus,” then, is put comparatively, with reference to\r\nthe pre-eminence, which obtains in our case. The prophet might have\r\nsaid simply, “He hath not done,” without the “thus.”</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK VI.","CHAPTER VIII. PHILOSOPHY IS KNOWLEDGE GIVEN BY GOD."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_1010","paragraph_id":"pg73020-paragraph-728"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"863521a4a66a1f813aca106435f5c32527f58f5e9baea16915c4e6d28f112137","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":119,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Ps. cxix. 69","verse":69,"verse_end":69}],"headings":[],"id":"pg73020-Footnote_1010","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_1010","source_ebook":73020,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_1010\" id=\"Footnote_1010\">[1010]</a> Ps. cxix. 69.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"c35077683d75abe553cc6ef5d3ef5a1a978f07dfbcf4bad5c3d56302ad03dc19","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_1010","text_sha256":"8ece6e07b8b160a24c81a0cce279d99838f6cddda5dfd7a3fbc8da71af3ba39b","verified":false,"work_id":null}