{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"drop-cap p-left\">Delicacies spent on pleasures become a dangerous shipwreck to men; for\r\nthis voluptuous and ignoble life of the many is alien to true love for\r\nthe beautiful and to refined pleasures. For man is by nature an erect\r\nand majestic being, aspiring after the good as becomes the creature\r\nof the One. But the life which crawls on its belly is destitute of\r\ndignity, is scandalous, hateful, ridiculous. And to the divine nature\r\nvoluptuousness is a thing most alien; for this is for a man to be like\r\nsparrows in feeding, and swine and goats in lechery. For to regard\r\npleasure as a good thing, is the sign of utter ignorance of what is\r\nexcellent. Love of wealth displaces a man from the right mode of life,\r\nand induces him to cease from feeling shame at what is shameful; if\r\nonly, like a beast, he has power to eat all sorts of things, and to\r\ndrink in like manner, and to satiate in every way his lewd desires.\r\nAnd so very rarely does he inherit the kingdom of God. For what end,\r\nthen, are such dainty dishes prepared, but to fill one belly? The\r\nfilthiness of gluttony is proved by the privies into which our bellies\r\ndischarge the refuse of our food. For what end do they collect so many\r\ncup-bearers, when they might satisfy themselves with one cup? For what\r\nthe chests of clothes? and the gold ornaments for what? Those things\r\nare prepared for clothes-stealers, and scoundrels, and for greedy eyes.\r\n“But let alms and faith not fail thee,”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_674\" id=\"FNanchor_674\">[674]</a> says the Scripture.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","THE INSTRUCTOR.","BOOK III.","CHAPTER VII. FRUGALITY A GOOD PROVISION FOR THE CHRISTIAN."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_674","paragraph_id":"pg71937-paragraph-536"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"e88a73d489d09319cb2819560603dbcc250789bb32cc54b9837d6134918fa060","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1867,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"PRO","chapter":3,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Prov. iii. 5","verse":5,"verse_end":5}],"headings":[],"id":"pg71937-Footnote_674","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_674","source_ebook":71937,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_674\" id=\"Footnote_674\">[674]</a> Prov. iii. 5.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"8e5c5bc39922dbad2626ac7651c2eb2e3d94cdcbd721f781e9792143ebb1cd03","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/71937/pg71937-images.html#Footnote_674","text_sha256":"b91c28cb874991d4a8a0809f19a76288f4ef9ede27365623f51d495b2adf46e0","verified":false,"work_id":null}