{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>We must therefore rescue the gnostic and perfect man from all passion\r\nof the soul. For knowledge (<i>gnosis</i>) produces practice, and\r\npractice habit or disposition; and such a state as this produces\r\nimpassibility, not moderation of passion. And the complete eradication\r\nof desire reaps as its fruit impassibility. But the Gnostic does not\r\nshare either in those affections that are commonly celebrated as good,\r\nthat is, the good things of the affections which are allied to the\r\npassions: such, I mean, as gladness, which is allied to pleasure; and\r\ndejection, for this is conjoined with pain; and caution, for it is\r\nsubject to fear. Nor yet does he share in high spirit, for it takes its\r\nplace alongside of wrath; although some say that these are no longer\r\nevil, but already good. For it is impossible that he who has been\r\nonce made perfect by love, and feasts eternally and insatiably on the\r\nboundless joy of contemplation, should delight in small and grovelling\r\nthings. For what rational cause remains any more to the man<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_347\">[347]</span> who has\r\ngained “the light inaccessible,”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1023\" id=\"FNanchor_1023\">[1023]</a> for reverting to the good things\r\nof the world? Although not yet true as to time and place, yet by that\r\ngnostic love through which the inheritance and perfect restitution\r\nfollow, the giver of the reward makes good by deeds what the Gnostic,\r\nby gnostic choice, had grasped by anticipation through love.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK VI.","CHAPTER IX. THE GNOSTIC FREE OF ALL PERTURBATIONS OF THE SOUL."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_1023","paragraph_id":"pg73020-paragraph-742"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"256864813d8311f0286338a3d41aa70468c5507c1d5966dbf36cc28108ad16ad","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"1TI","chapter":6,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"1 Tim. vi. 16","verse":16,"verse_end":16}],"headings":[],"id":"pg73020-Footnote_1023","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_1023","source_ebook":73020,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_1023\" id=\"Footnote_1023\">[1023]</a> 1 Tim. vi. 16.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"c35077683d75abe553cc6ef5d3ef5a1a978f07dfbcf4bad5c3d56302ad03dc19","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_1023","text_sha256":"f168f39bb75678e9d2348c6fe36ccd4d5f6b28ead0c6cc99aa84fa1f48b96847","verified":false,"work_id":null}