{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>The man of proved character in such piety is far from being apt to\r\nlie and to swear. For an oath is a decisive affirmation, with the\r\ntaking of the divine name. For how can he, that is once faithful, show\r\nhimself unfaithful, so as to require an oath; and so that his life may\r\nnot be a sure and decisive oath? He lives, and walks, and shows the\r\ntrustworthiness of his affirmation in an unwavering and<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_443\">[443]</span> sure life\r\nand speech. And if the wrong lies in the judgment of one who does\r\nand says [something], and not in the suffering of one who has been\r\nwronged,<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1244\" id=\"FNanchor_1244\">[1244]</a> he will neither lie nor commit perjury so as to wrong\r\nthe Deity, knowing that it by nature is incapable of being harmed.\r\nNor yet will he lie or commit any transgression, for the sake of the\r\nneighbour whom he has learned to love, though he be not on terms of\r\nintimacy. Much more, consequently, will he not lie or perjure himself\r\non his own account, since he never with his will can be found doing\r\nwrong to himself.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK VII.","CHAPTER VIII. THE GNOSTIC SO ADDICTED TO TRUTH AS NOT TO NEED TO USE AN OATH."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_1244","paragraph_id":"pg73020-paragraph-1033"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"0ee65d39182555ba951d505f3e4e89fa31e6fa413b7f4069bb5c9f15d510a566","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg73020-Footnote_1244","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_1244","source_ebook":73020,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_1244\" id=\"Footnote_1244\">[1244]</a> Or, “persecuted;” for ἀδικουμένου (Lowth) and\r\nδιωκομένου (Potter and Latin translator) have been both suggested\r\ninstead of the reading of the text, διακονουμένου.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"c35077683d75abe553cc6ef5d3ef5a1a978f07dfbcf4bad5c3d56302ad03dc19","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_1244","text_sha256":"4120087c8f79ee470e70335fd7e02163d98c33274ca19c1bd7c6f9129221e793","verified":false,"work_id":null}