{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Sin autem malum est generatio, in malo blasphemi dicant fuisse Dominum\r\nqui fuit particeps generationis, in malo Virginem quæ genuit. Hei\r\nmihi! quot et quanta mala! Dei voluntatem maledictis incessunt, et\r\nmysterium creationis, dum invehuntur in generationem. Et hinc “Docesin”\r\nfingit Cassianus; hinc etiam Marcioni, et Valentino quoque est corpus<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_134\">[134]</span>\r\nanimale; quoniam homo, inquiunt, operam dans veneri, “assimilatus est\r\njumentis.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_448\" id=\"FNanchor_448\">[448]</a> Atqui profecto, cum libidine vere insaniens, aliena\r\ninire voluerit, tunc revera, qui talis est, efferatur: “Equi in\r\nfeminas furentes facti sunt, unusquisque hinniebat ad uxorem proximi\r\nsui.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_449\" id=\"FNanchor_449\">[449]</a> Quod si dicat serpentem, a brutis animantibus accepta\r\nconsilii sui ratione, Adamo persuasisse ut cum Eva coire consentiret,\r\ntanquam alioqui, ut quidam existimant, protoplasti hac natura usuri\r\nnon fuissent: rursus vituperatur creatio, ut quæ rationis expertium\r\nanimantium natura homines fecerit imbecilliores, quorum exempla\r\nconsecuti sunt, qui a Deo primi formati fuere. Sin autem natura quidem\r\neos sicut bruta deduxit ad filiorum procreationem; moti autem sunt\r\ncitius quam oportuit, fraude inducti, cum adhuc essent juvenes; justum\r\nquidem est Dei judicium in eos qui non exspectarunt ejus voluntatem:\r\nsancta est autem generatio, per quam mundus consistit, per quam\r\nessentiæ, per quam naturæ, per quam angeli, per quam potestates, per\r\nquam animæ, per quam præcepta, per quam lex, per quam Evangelium, per\r\nquam Dei cognitio. “Et omnis caro fenum, et omnis gloria ejus quasi\r\nflos feni; et fenum quidem exsiccatur, flos autem decidit, sed verbum\r\nDomini manet,”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_450\" id=\"FNanchor_450\">[450]</a> quod unxit animam et uniit spiritui. Quomodo autem,\r\nquæ est in Ecclesia nostra, œconomia ad finem perduci potuisset absque\r\ncorpore, cum etiam ipse, qui est caput Ecclesiæ, in carne quidem\r\ninformis et specie carens vitam transiit, ut doceret nos respicere ad\r\nnaturam divinæ causæ informem et incorpoream? “Arbor enim vitæ,” inquit\r\npropheta, “est in bono desiderio,”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_451\" id=\"FNanchor_451\">[451]</a> docens bona et munda desideria,\r\nquæ sunt in Domino vivente. Jam vero volunt viri cum uxore in\r\nmatrimonio consuetudinem, quæ dicta est “cognitio,” esse peccatum: eam\r\nquippe indicari ex esu “ligni boni et mali,”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_452\" id=\"FNanchor_452\">[452]</a> per significationem\r\nhujus vocabuli “cognovit,”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_453\" id=\"FNanchor_453\">[453]</a> quæ mandati transgressionem notat. Si\r\nautem hoc ita est, veritatis quoque cognitio, est esus ligni vitæ.\r\nPotest ergo honestum ac moderatum matrimonium illius quoque ligni esse\r\nparticeps. Nobis autem prius dictum est, quod licet bene et male uti\r\nmatrimonio;<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_135\">[135]</span> et hoc est lignum “cognitionis,” si non transgrediamur\r\nleges matrimonii. Quid vero? annon Servator noster, sicut animam,\r\nita etiam corpus curavit ab affectionibus? Neque vero si esset caro\r\ninimica animæ, inimicam per sanitatis restitutionem adversus ipsam\r\nmuniisset. “Hoc autem dico, fratres, quod caro et sanguis regnum Dei\r\nnon possunt possidere, neque corruptio possidet incorruptionem.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_454\" id=\"FNanchor_454\">[454]</a>\r\nPeccatum enim, cum sit “corruptio,” non potest habere societatem cum\r\n“incorruptione,” quæ est justitia. “Adeo stulti,” inquit, “estis? cum\r\nspiritu cœperitis, nunc carne consummamini.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_455\" id=\"FNanchor_455\">[455]</a></p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK III.","CAPUT XVII. 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