{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Now the followers of Basilides regard faith as natural, as<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_7\">[7]</span> they also\r\nrefer it to choice, [representing it] as finding ideas by intellectual\r\ncomprehension without demonstration; while the followers of Valentinus\r\nassign faith to us, the simple, but will have it that knowledge springs\r\nup in their own selves (who are saved by nature) through the advantage\r\nof a germ of superior excellence, saying that it is as far removed from\r\nfaith as<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_21\" id=\"FNanchor_21\">[21]</a> the spiritual is from the animal. Further, the followers\r\nof Basilides say that faith as well as choice is proper according to\r\nevery interval; and that in consequence of the supramundane selection\r\nmundane faith accompanies all nature, and that the free gift of faith\r\nis conformable to the hope of each. Faith, then, is no longer the\r\ndirect result of free choice, if it is a natural advantage.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK II.","CHAPTER III. FAITH NOT A PRODUCT OF NATURE."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_21","paragraph_id":"pg73020-paragraph-23"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"53092509112e4f8b3317d51c7752e02a82ddfd49595a9a3f2b87b003953d6d13","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg73020-Footnote_21","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_21","source_ebook":73020,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_21\" id=\"Footnote_21\">[21]</a> The text reads ἤ; but Sylb. suggests ᾑ, which we have\r\nadopted.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"c35077683d75abe553cc6ef5d3ef5a1a978f07dfbcf4bad5c3d56302ad03dc19","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_21","text_sha256":"745c7eeceb8e7665081d4fbad576409b628f325d4345fcfbbaa21ab83a008a80","verified":false,"work_id":null}