{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>These three things, therefore, our philosopher attaches himself to:\r\nfirst, speculation; second, the performance of the precepts; third, the\r\nforming of good men;—which, concurring, form the Gnostic. Whichever of\r\nthese is wanting, the elements of knowledge limp. Whence the Scripture\r\ndivinely says, “And the Lord spake to Moses, saying, Speak to the\r\nchildren of Israel, and thou shalt say to them, I am the Lord your\r\nGod. According to the customs of the land of Egypt, in which ye have\r\ndwelt, ye shall not do; and according to the customs of Canaan, into\r\nwhich I bring you, ye shall not do; and in their usages ye shall not\r\nwalk. Ye shall perform my judgments, and keep my precepts, and walk in\r\nthem: I am the Lord your God. And ye shall keep all my commandments,\r\nand do them. He that doeth them shall live in them. I am the Lord your\r\nGod.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_98\" id=\"FNanchor_98\">[98]</a> Whether, then, Egypt and the land of Canaan be the symbol of\r\nthe world and of deceit, or of sufferings and afflictions; the oracle\r\nshows us what must be abstained from, and what, being divine and not\r\nworldly, must be observed. And when it is said, “The man that doeth\r\nthem shall live in them,”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_99\" id=\"FNanchor_99\">[99]</a> it declares both the correction<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_30\">[30]</span> of the\r\nHebrews themselves, and the training and advancement of us who are\r\nnigh:<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_100\" id=\"FNanchor_100\">[100]</a> it declares at once their life and ours. For “those who\r\nwere dead in sins are quickened together with Christ,”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_101\" id=\"FNanchor_101\">[101]</a> by our\r\ncovenant. For Scripture, by the frequent reiteration of the expression,\r\n“I am the Lord your God,” shames in such a way as most powerfully to\r\ndissuade, by teaching us to follow God who gave the commandments, and\r\ngently admonishes us to seek God and endeavour to know Him as far\r\nas possible; which is the highest speculation, that which scans the\r\ngreatest mysteries, the real knowledge, that which becomes irrefragable\r\nby reason. This alone is the knowledge of wisdom, from which rectitude\r\nof conduct is never disjoined.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK II.","CHAPTER X. TO WHAT THE PHILOSOPHER APPLIES HIMSELF."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_98","paragraph_id":"pg73020-paragraph-55"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"e03318d4504cc26a008f7eed5788e89d27bef11aa3d6a2820511407c4c41d24a","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"LEV","chapter":18,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Lev. xviii. 1–5","verse":1,"verse_end":5}],"headings":[],"id":"pg73020-Footnote_98","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_98","source_ebook":73020,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_98\" id=\"Footnote_98\">[98]</a> Lev. xviii. 1–5.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"c35077683d75abe553cc6ef5d3ef5a1a978f07dfbcf4bad5c3d56302ad03dc19","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_98","text_sha256":"303ff2ff06665b38406b2dd6b7aefc0ff836a3af124721a0ef27a0f5715145fa","verified":false,"work_id":null}