{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Hope, too, is based on faith. Accordingly the followers of Basilides\r\ndefine faith to be, the assent of the soul to any of those things,\r\nthat do not affect the senses through not being present. And hope\r\nis the expectation of the possession of good. Necessarily, then, is\r\nexpectation founded on faith. Now he is faithful who keeps inviolably\r\nwhat is entrusted to him; and we are entrusted with the utterances\r\nrespecting God and the divine words, the commands along with the\r\nexecution of the injunctions. This is the faithful servant, who is\r\npraised by the Lord. And when it is said, “God is faithful,” it is\r\nintimated that He is worthy to be believed when declaring aught.\r\nNow His Word declares; and “God” Himself is “faithful.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_59\" id=\"FNanchor_59\">[59]</a> How,\r\nthen, if to believe is to suppose, do the philosophers think that\r\nwhat proceeds from themselves is sure? For the voluntary assent to\r\na preceding demonstration is not supposition, but it is assent to\r\nsomething sure. Who is more powerful than God? Now unbelief is the\r\nfeeble negative supposition of one opposed to Him; as incredulity is a\r\ncondition which admits<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_18\">[18]</span> faith with difficulty. Faith is the voluntary\r\nsupposition and anticipation of pre-comprehension. Expectation is an\r\nopinion about the future, and expectation about other things is opinion\r\nabout uncertainty. Confidence is a strong judgment about a thing.\r\nWherefore we believe Him in whom we have confidence unto divine glory\r\nand salvation. And we confide in Him, who is God alone, whom we know,\r\nthat those things nobly promised to us, and for this end benevolently\r\ncreated and bestowed by Him on us, will not fail.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK II.","CHAPTER VI. THE EXCELLENCE AND UTILITY OF FAITH."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_59","paragraph_id":"pg73020-paragraph-39"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"251727b193f81cc6f577d6e30e021c7238dfbea9924f16ddc191d7c0bcb1989e","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"1CO","chapter":1,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"1 Cor. i. 9","verse":9,"verse_end":9}],"headings":[],"id":"pg73020-Footnote_59","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_59","source_ebook":73020,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_59\" id=\"Footnote_59\">[59]</a> 1 Cor. i. 9, ix. 13.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"c35077683d75abe553cc6ef5d3ef5a1a978f07dfbcf4bad5c3d56302ad03dc19","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_59","text_sha256":"46ba99b876aafc880e070e03f5ec5674d54081cb3bf903e3afb0e94a79cd6d26","verified":false,"work_id":null}