{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>The pruning-hook is made, certainly, principally for pruning; but\r\nwith it we separate twigs that have got intertwined, cut the thorns\r\nwhich grow along with the vines, which it is not very easy to reach.\r\nAnd all these things have a reference to pruning. Again, man is made\r\nprincipally for the knowledge of God; but he also measures land,\r\npractises agriculture, and philosophizes; of which pursuits, one\r\nconduces to life, another to living well, a third to the study of\r\nthe things which are capable of demonstration. Further, let those\r\nwho say that philosophy took its rise from the devil know this, that\r\nthe Scripture says that “the devil is transformed into an angel of\r\nlight.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1018\" id=\"FNanchor_1018\">[1018]</a> When about to do what? Plainly, when about to prophesy.\r\nBut if he prophesies as an angel of light,<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_342\">[342]</span> he will speak what is true.\r\nAnd if he prophesies what is angelical, and of the light, then he\r\nprophesies what is beneficial when he is transformed according to the\r\nlikeness of the operation, though he be different with respect to the\r\nmatter of apostasy. For how could he deceive any one, without drawing\r\nthe lover of knowledge into fellowship, and so drawing him afterwards\r\ninto falsehood? Especially he will be found to know the truth, if not\r\nso as to comprehend it, yet so as not to be unacquainted with it.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK VI.","CHAPTER VIII. PHILOSOPHY IS KNOWLEDGE GIVEN BY GOD."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_1018","paragraph_id":"pg73020-paragraph-732"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"9a03ab7f92d64acec8b9422a6340421bbdbb565970b24cd92c84b60478b6c834","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"2CO","chapter":11,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"2 Cor. xi. 14","verse":14,"verse_end":14}],"headings":[],"id":"pg73020-Footnote_1018","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_1018","source_ebook":73020,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_1018\" id=\"Footnote_1018\">[1018]</a> 2 Cor. xi. 14.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"c35077683d75abe553cc6ef5d3ef5a1a978f07dfbcf4bad5c3d56302ad03dc19","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_1018","text_sha256":"fffb24ce8bf9636ca954d35e7db104abd50d735cb3e41ecf70420a16e91fa4ea","verified":false,"work_id":null}