{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>So he adds these most monitory words: “Who has woes, who has clamour,\r\nwho has contentions, who has disgusting babblings, who has unavailing\r\nremorse?”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_478\" id=\"FNanchor_478\">[478]</a> You see, in all his raggedness, the lover of wine,\r\nwho despises the Word Himself, and has abandoned and given himself\r\nto drunkenness. You see what threatening Scripture has pronounced\r\nagainst him. And to its threatening it adds again: “Whose are red\r\neyes? Those, is it not, who tarry long at their wine, and hunt out\r\nthe places where drinking goes on?” Here he shows the lover of drink\r\nto be already dead to the Word, by the mention of the blood-shot\r\neyes,—a mark which appears on corpses, announcing to him death in the\r\nLord. For forgetfulness of the things which tend to true life turns\r\nthe scale towards destruction. With reason therefore, the Instructor,\r\nin His solicitude for our salvation, forbids us, “Drink not wine to\r\ndrunkenness.” Wherefore? you will ask. Because, says He, “thy mouth\r\nwill then speak perverse things, and thou liest down as in the heart of\r\nthe sea, and as the steersman of a ship in the midst of huge billows.”\r\nHence, too, poetry comes to our help, and says:</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","THE INSTRUCTOR.","BOOK II.","CHAPTER II. ON DRINKING."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_478","paragraph_id":"pg71937-paragraph-359"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"0181f822e60a8f5769cc00cc6dc8093e42eee15fe86c1f5e425701adf84bb310","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1867,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"PRO","chapter":23,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Prov. xxiii. 29","verse":29,"verse_end":29}],"headings":[],"id":"pg71937-Footnote_478","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 1867 English translation; translator died 1875. Electronic transcription subject to Project Gutenberg reuse terms.","source_anchor":"Footnote_478","source_ebook":71937,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_478\" id=\"Footnote_478\">[478]</a> Prov. xxiii. 29, 30.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"8e5c5bc39922dbad2626ac7651c2eb2e3d94cdcbd721f781e9792143ebb1cd03","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/71937/pg71937-images.html#Footnote_478","text_sha256":"fbf0da2dffb53f58bad109826725e0b6fdc3a8b0a4391ab1014ea5c18609e543","verified":false,"work_id":null}