{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>It is, then, our purpose to prove that the Gnostic alone is holy and\r\npious, and worships the true God in a manner worthy of Him; and that\r\nworship meet for God is followed by loving and being loved by God. He\r\naccordingly judges all excellence to be honourable according to its\r\nworth; and judges that among the objects perceived by our senses, we\r\nare to esteem rulers, and parents, and every one advanced in years;\r\nand among subjects of instruction, the most ancient philosophy and\r\nprimeval prophecy; and among intellectual ideas, what is oldest in\r\norigin, the timeless and unoriginated First Principle, and Beginning\r\nof existences—the Son—from whom we are to learn the remoter Cause,\r\nthe Father of the universe, the most ancient and the most beneficent\r\nof all; not capable of expression by the voice, but to be reverenced\r\nwith reverence, and silence, and holy wonder, and supremely venerated;\r\ndeclared by the Lord, as far as those who learned were capable of\r\ncomprehending, and understood by those chosen by the Lord to knowledge;\r\n“whose senses,” says the apostle, “were exercised.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1190\" id=\"FNanchor_1190\">[1190]</a></p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK VII.","CHAPTER I. THE GNOSTIC A TRUE WORSHIPPER OF GOD, AND UNJUSTLY CALUMNIATED BY UNBELIEVERS AS AN ATHEIST."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_1190","paragraph_id":"pg73020-paragraph-915"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"369eaff59faa8da298ce48cd4dba8470b2d92a056bcb277714238d3ab751f34a","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"HEB","chapter":5,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Heb. v. 14","verse":14,"verse_end":14}],"headings":[],"id":"pg73020-Footnote_1190","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_1190","source_ebook":73020,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_1190\" id=\"Footnote_1190\">[1190]</a> Heb. v. 14.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"c35077683d75abe553cc6ef5d3ef5a1a978f07dfbcf4bad5c3d56302ad03dc19","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_1190","text_sha256":"5ada84ee932c6c8bb8cc4748e03a3887a1613c5007a4eafd696fa399d8fcf44b","verified":false,"work_id":null}