{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>For neither are knee and leg, and such other members,<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_224\">[224]</span> nor are the\r\nnames applied to them, and the activity put forth by them, obscene. And\r\neven the secret parts of man are to be regarded as objects suggestive\r\nof modesty, not shame. It is their unlawful activity that is shameful,\r\nand deserving ignominy, and reproach, and punishment. For the only\r\nthing that is in reality shameful is wickedness, and what is done\r\nthrough it. In accordance with these remarks, conversation about deeds\r\nof wickedness is appropriately termed filthy [shameful] speaking, as\r\ntalk about adultery and pæderasty and the like. Frivolous prating, too,\r\nis to be put to silence. “For,” it is said, “in much speaking thou\r\nshalt not escape sin.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_522\" id=\"FNanchor_522\">[522]</a> “Sins of the tongue, therefore, shall be\r\npunished.” “There is he who is silent, and is found wise; and there\r\nis that is hated for much speech.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_523\" id=\"FNanchor_523\">[523]</a> But still more, the prater\r\nmakes himself the object of disgust. “For he that multiplieth speech\r\nabominates his own soul.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_524\" id=\"FNanchor_524\">[524]</a></p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","THE INSTRUCTOR.","BOOK II.","CHAPTER VI. ON FILTHY SPEAKING."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_523","paragraph_id":"pg71937-paragraph-399"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"ca90cd28d9bafa2a1c9cfc6c8b1eca80ac1a1fb769a396ca9fcb01860705dc6a","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1867,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"SIR","chapter":20,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Ecclus. xx. 5","verse":5,"verse_end":5}],"headings":[],"id":"pg71937-Footnote_523","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_523","source_ebook":71937,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_523\" id=\"Footnote_523\">[523]</a> Ecclus. xx. 5.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"8e5c5bc39922dbad2626ac7651c2eb2e3d94cdcbd721f781e9792143ebb1cd03","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/71937/pg71937-images.html#Footnote_523","text_sha256":"ae51d16012706357d6b6cc0fec7eab14f59cc63c377eb7545de91f86d8ae759b","verified":false,"work_id":null}