{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>For can we possibly any longer suppose the Demeter, and<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_65\">[65]</span> the Kore, and\r\nthe mystic Iacchus of Praxiteles, to be gods, and not rather regard the\r\nart of Leucippus, or the hands of Apelles, which clothed the material\r\nwith the form of the divine glory, as having a better title to the\r\nhonour? But while you bestow the greatest pains that the image may be\r\nfashioned with the most exquisite beauty possible, you exercise no care\r\nto guard against your becoming like images for stupidity. Accordingly,\r\nwith the utmost clearness and brevity, the prophetic word condemns\r\nthis practice: “For all the gods of the nations are the images of\r\ndemons; but God made the heavens, and what is in heaven.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_61\" id=\"FNanchor_61\">[61]</a> Some,\r\nhowever, who have fallen into error, I know not how, worship God’s work\r\ninstead of God Himself,—the sun and the moon, and the rest of the\r\nstarry choir,—absurdly imagining these, which are but instruments for\r\nmeasuring time, to be gods; “for by His word they were established, and\r\nall their host by the breath of His mouth.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_62\" id=\"FNanchor_62\">[62]</a></p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","EXHORTATION TO THE HEATHEN.","CHAPTER IV. THE ABSURDITY AND SHAMEFULNESS OF THE IMAGES BY WHICH THE GODS ARE WORSHIPPED."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_61","paragraph_id":"pg71937-paragraph-157"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"25bd0052ee3eef5fdd07958700b47d7f9ef459fd57597e7b177d8c7a0556d7af","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1867,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"PSA","chapter":96,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Ps. xcvi. 5","verse":5,"verse_end":5}],"headings":[],"id":"pg71937-Footnote_61","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_61","source_ebook":71937,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_61\" id=\"Footnote_61\">[61]</a> Ps. xcvi. 5.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"8e5c5bc39922dbad2626ac7651c2eb2e3d94cdcbd721f781e9792143ebb1cd03","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/71937/pg71937-images.html#Footnote_61","text_sha256":"3ec73f06fb1ee0e4dfd2ac56f605b7662a0450277b54f81b3c6e363b408b2114","verified":false,"work_id":null}