{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>We, then, are those who are believers in what is not believed, and\r\nwho are gnostics as to what is unknown; that is, gnostics as to what\r\nis unknown and disbelieved by all, but believed and known by a few;\r\nand gnostics, not describing actions by speech, but gnostics in the\r\nexercise of contemplation.<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_221\">[221]</span> Happy is he who speaks in the ears of\r\nthe hearing. Now Faith is the ear of the soul. And such the Lord\r\nintimates faith to be, when He says, “He that hath ears to hear, let\r\nhim hear;”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_697\" id=\"FNanchor_697\">[697]</a> so that by believing he may comprehend what He says, as\r\nHe says it. Homer, too, the oldest of the poets, using the word “hear”\r\ninstead of “perceive”—the specific for the generic term—writes:</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK V.","CHAPTER I. ON FAITH."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_697","paragraph_id":"pg73020-paragraph-303"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"71c0ebebb7055a46d82cfcfd2dd864d8476019d8840a5edebec0ba9255f91447","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"MAT","chapter":11,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Matt. xi. 15","verse":15,"verse_end":15}],"headings":[],"id":"pg73020-Footnote_697","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_697","source_ebook":73020,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_697\" id=\"Footnote_697\">[697]</a> Matt. xi. 15.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"c35077683d75abe553cc6ef5d3ef5a1a978f07dfbcf4bad5c3d56302ad03dc19","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_697","text_sha256":"f8c62d2a2a3563547d32ddc1803fd6cfe0a23a4312d102a1d0af29ebc415b32a","verified":false,"work_id":null}