{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Only one of these teachers (who, from a reference in the\r\n<i>Stromata</i>, all appear to have been alive when he wrote<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_2\" id=\"FNanchor_2\">[2]</a>) can be\r\nwith certainty identified, viz. Pantænus, of whom he speaks in terms\r\nof profound reverence, and whom he describes as the greatest of them\r\nall. Returning to Alexandria, he succeeded his master Pantænus in the\r\ncatechetical school, probably on the latter departing on his missionary\r\ntour to the East, somewhere about <span class=\"allsmcap\">A.D.</span> 189.<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_3\" id=\"FNanchor_3\">[3]</a> He was also\r\nmade a presbyter of the church, either then or somewhat later.<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_4\" id=\"FNanchor_4\">[4]</a> He\r\ncontinued to teach with great distinction till <span class=\"allsmcap\">A.D.</span> 202, when\r\nthe persecution under Severus compelled him to retire from Alexandria.\r\nIn the beginning of the reign of Caracalla we find him at Jerusalem,\r\neven then a great resort of Christian, and especially clerical,\r\npilgrims. We also hear of him travelling to Antioch, furnished with a\r\nletter of recommendation by Alexander bishop of Jerusalem. The close\r\nof his career<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_12\">[12]</span> is covered with obscurity. He is supposed to have died\r\nabout <span class=\"allsmcap\">A.D.</span> 220.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","INTRODUCTORY NOTICE."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_4","paragraph_id":"pg71937-paragraph-23"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"4f65ef92e93e17ad99e9146e781402ce880a5dc4f69cb7cb408b43bb7d4c157a","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1867,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg71937-Footnote_4","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 1867 English translation; translator died 1875. Electronic transcription subject to Project Gutenberg reuse terms.","source_anchor":"Footnote_4","source_ebook":71937,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_4\" id=\"Footnote_4\">[4]</a> Hieron. <i>Lib. de Viris illustribus</i>, c. 38; Ph.\r\n<i>Bibl.</i> 111.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"8e5c5bc39922dbad2626ac7651c2eb2e3d94cdcbd721f781e9792143ebb1cd03","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/71937/pg71937-images.html#Footnote_4","text_sha256":"756b5a8625040cee44134565d47ccfd0b0a3b1f89cf9628b02c1bd68de5d53fe","verified":false,"work_id":null}