{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>There are things practised in a vulgar style by some people, such as\r\ncontrol over pleasures. For as, among the heathen, there are those\r\nwho, from the impossibility of obtaining what one sees,<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1258\" id=\"FNanchor_1258\">[1258]</a> and from\r\nfear of men, and also for the sake of<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_457\">[457]</span> greater pleasures, abstain from\r\nthe delights that are before them; so also, in the case of faith, some\r\npractise self-restraint, either out of regard to the promise or from\r\nfear of God. Well, such self-restraint is the basis of knowledge, and\r\nan approach to something better, and an effort after perfection. For\r\n“the fear of the Lord,” it is said, “is the beginning of wisdom.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1259\" id=\"FNanchor_1259\">[1259]</a>\r\nBut the perfect man, out of love, “beareth all things, endureth all\r\nthings,”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1260\" id=\"FNanchor_1260\">[1260]</a> “as not pleasing man, but God.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1261\" id=\"FNanchor_1261\">[1261]</a> Although praise\r\nfollows him as a consequence, it is not for his own advantage, but for\r\nthe imitation and benefit of those who praise him.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK VII.","CHAPTER XII. THE TRUE GNOSTIC IS BENEFICENT, CONTINENT, AND DESPISES WORLDLY THINGS."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_1261","paragraph_id":"pg73020-paragraph-1081"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"be15cd0fad218dc2336b537a6e36f3e3f2b05aab8fcb53906863bc27da9ebde4","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"2TH","chapter":2,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"2 Thess. ii. 4","verse":4,"verse_end":4}],"headings":[],"id":"pg73020-Footnote_1261","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_1261","source_ebook":73020,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_1261\" id=\"Footnote_1261\">[1261]</a> 2 Thess. ii. 4.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"c35077683d75abe553cc6ef5d3ef5a1a978f07dfbcf4bad5c3d56302ad03dc19","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_1261","text_sha256":"c2711b496a9ecbd4c3ea58b206a829c95a6b4965cc5b1be73535425a64553804","verified":false,"work_id":null}