{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Wherefore also Moses says, “Show thyself to me”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_805\" id=\"FNanchor_805\">[805]</a>—intimating most\r\nclearly that God is not capable of being taught by man, or expressed\r\nin speech, but to be known only by His own power. For inquiry was\r\nobscure and dim; but the grace of knowledge is from Him by the Son.\r\nMost clearly Solomon shall testify to us, speaking thus: “The prudence\r\nof man is not in me: but God giveth me wisdom, and I know holy\r\nthings.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_806\" id=\"FNanchor_806\">[806]</a> Now Moses, describing allegorically the divine prudence,\r\ncalled it the tree of life planted in Paradise; which Paradise may be\r\nthe world in which all things proceeding from creation grow. In it also\r\nthe Word blossomed and bore fruit, being “made flesh,” and gave life to\r\nthose “who had tasted of His graciousness;” since it was not without\r\nthe wood of the tree that He came to our knowledge. For our life was\r\nhung on it, in order that we might believe. And Solomon again says:\r\n“She is a tree of immortality to those who take hold of her.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_807\" id=\"FNanchor_807\">[807]</a>\r\n“Behold, I set before thy face life and death, to love the Lord thy\r\nGod, and to walk in His ways, and hear His voice, and trust in life.\r\nBut if ye transgress the statutes and the judgments which I have given\r\nyou, ye shall be destroyed with destruction. For this is life, and the\r\nlength of thy days, to love the Lord thy God.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_808\" id=\"FNanchor_808\">[808]</a></p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK V.","CHAPTER XI. ABSTRACTION FROM MATERIAL THINGS NECESSARY IN ORDER TO ATTAIN TO THE TRUE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_806","paragraph_id":"pg73020-paragraph-402"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"a4a3c7d81b64231537d51446de5ddd87962e5290520f3b3025e451414b5dcf4f","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"PRO","chapter":30,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Prov. xxx. 2","verse":2,"verse_end":2}],"headings":[],"id":"pg73020-Footnote_806","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_806","source_ebook":73020,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_806\" id=\"Footnote_806\">[806]</a> Prov. xxx. 2.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"c35077683d75abe553cc6ef5d3ef5a1a978f07dfbcf4bad5c3d56302ad03dc19","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_806","text_sha256":"c113976a6bd18f34fe75bc857d68c32ebb98558c940a2b1ddbe44c897324e23a","verified":false,"work_id":null}