{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Then, he that is uninstructed in the word, has ignorance as the excuse\r\nof his error; but as for him into whose ears instruction has been\r\npoured, and who deliberately maintains his incredulity in his soul,\r\nthe wiser he appears to be, the more harm will his understanding do\r\nhim; for he has his own sense as his accuser for not having chosen the\r\nbest part. For man has been otherwise constituted by nature, so as\r\nto have fellowship with God. As, then, we do not compel the horse to\r\nplough, or the bull to hunt, but set each animal to that for which it\r\nis by nature fitted; so, placing our finger on what is man’s peculiar\r\nand distinguishing characteristic above other creatures, we invite\r\nhim—born, as he is, for the contemplation of heaven, and being, as he\r\nis, a truly heavenly plant—to the knowledge of God, counselling him\r\nto furnish himself with what is his sufficient provision for eternity,\r\nnamely piety. Practise husbandry, we say, if you are a husbandman;\r\nbut while you till your fields, know God. Sail the sea, you who are\r\ndevoted to navigation, yet call the whilst on the heavenly Pilot. Has\r\nknowledge taken hold of you while engaged in military service? Listen\r\nto the commander, who orders what is right. As those, then, who have\r\nbeen overpowered with sleep and drunkenness, do ye awake; and using\r\nyour eyes a little, consider what mean those stones which you worship,\r\nand the expenditure you frivolously lavish on matter. Your means and\r\nsubstance you squander on ignorance, even as you throw away your lives\r\nto death, having found no other end of your vain hope than this. Not\r\nonly unable to pity yourselves, you are incapable even of yielding to\r\nthe persuasions of those who commiserate you; enslaved as you are to\r\nevil custom, and, clinging to it voluntarily till your last breath, you\r\nare hurried to destruction: “because light is come into the world, and\r\nmen have loved the darkness rather than the light,”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_127\" id=\"FNanchor_127\">[127]</a> while they\r\ncould sweep away those<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_93\">[93]</span> hindrances to salvation, pride, and wealth, and\r\nfear, repeating this poetic utterance:</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","EXHORTATION TO THE HEATHEN.","CHAPTER X. ANSWER TO THE OBJECTION OF THE HEATHEN, THAT IT WAS NOT RIGHT TO ABANDON THE CUSTOMS OF THEIR FATHERS."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_127","paragraph_id":"pg71937-paragraph-205"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"6aeb5191a2eb5aefc24b6220bb6bb8d0435b2ce9f33488f3afd5242cf73b93b2","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1867,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"JHN","chapter":3,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"John iii. 19","verse":19,"verse_end":19}],"headings":[],"id":"pg71937-Footnote_127","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_127","source_ebook":71937,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_127\" id=\"Footnote_127\">[127]</a> John iii. 19.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"8e5c5bc39922dbad2626ac7651c2eb2e3d94cdcbd721f781e9792143ebb1cd03","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/71937/pg71937-images.html#Footnote_127","text_sha256":"d5c53af301cd0b11adf66c5e850019038e0894bc29f516f0756cea900bc56786","verified":false,"work_id":null}