{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Then he adds: “Worship this God not as the Greeks,”—signifying\r\nplainly, that the excellent among the Greeks worshipped the same God\r\nas we, but that they had not learned by perfect knowledge that which\r\nwas delivered by the Son. “Do not then worship,” he did not say, the\r\nGod whom the Greeks worship, but “as the Greeks,”—changing the manner\r\nof the worship of God, not announcing another God. What, then, the\r\nexpression “not as the Greeks” means, Peter himself shall explain, as\r\nhe adds: “Since they are carried away by ignorance, and know not God”\r\n(as we do, according to the perfect knowledge); “but giving shape to\r\nthe things<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_962\" id=\"FNanchor_962\">[962]</a> of which He gave them the power for use—stocks and\r\nstones, brass and iron, gold and silver—matter;—and setting up the\r\nthings which are slaves for use and<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_327\">[327]</span> possession, worship them.<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_963\" id=\"FNanchor_963\">[963]</a> And\r\nwhat God hath given to them for food—the fowls of the air, and the\r\nfish of the sea, and the creeping things of the earth, and the wild\r\nbeasts with the four-footed cattle of the field, weasels and mice,\r\ncats and dogs and apes, and their own proper food—they sacrifice as\r\nsacrifices to mortals; and offering dead things to the dead, as to\r\ngods, are unthankful to God, denying His existence by these things.”\r\nAnd that it is said, that we and the Greeks know the same God, though\r\nnot in the same way, he will infer thus: “Neither worship as the Jews;\r\nfor they, thinking that they only know God, do not know Him, adoring\r\nas they do angels and archangels, the month and the moon. And if the\r\nmoon be not visible, they do not hold the Sabbath, which is called\r\nthe first; nor do they hold the new moon, nor the feast of unleavened\r\nbread, nor the feast, nor the great day.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_964\" id=\"FNanchor_964\">[964]</a> Then he gives the\r\nfinishing stroke to the question: “So that do ye also, learning holily\r\nand righteously what we deliver to you; keep them, worshipping God\r\nin a new way, by Christ.” For we find in the Scriptures, as the Lord\r\nsays: “Behold, I make with you a new covenant, not as I made with your\r\nfathers in Mount Horeb.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_965\" id=\"FNanchor_965\">[965]</a> He made a new covenant with us; for what\r\nbelonged to the Greeks and Jews is old. But we, who worship Him in a\r\nnew way, in the third form, are Christians. For clearly, as I think, he\r\nshowed that the one and only God was known by the Greeks in a Gentile\r\nway, by the Jews Judaically, and in a new and spiritual way by us.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK VI.","CHAPTER V. THE GREEKS HAD SOME KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUE GOD."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_962","paragraph_id":"pg73020-paragraph-703"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"7389206763466289da2678d7ee91b058d2328b27a1b539e41d863ce9faa3e003","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_962","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_962","source_ebook":73020,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_962\" id=\"Footnote_962\">[962]</a> Instead of ἡν...ἐξουσίας, as in the text, we read ὧν\r\nἐξουσιαν.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"c35077683d75abe553cc6ef5d3ef5a1a978f07dfbcf4bad5c3d56302ad03dc19","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_962","text_sha256":"7222191fa26c08d5ca524e0023d198e135198abfc31fd75f32f5a66b9d0d2b3d","verified":false,"work_id":null}