{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Now fastings signify abstinence from all evils whatsoever, both\r\nin action and in word, and in thought itself. As appears, then,\r\nrighteousness is quadrangular;<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1074\" id=\"FNanchor_1074\">[1074]</a> on all sides equal and like in\r\nword, in deed, in abstinence from evils, in beneficence, in gnostic\r\nperfection; nowhere, and in no respect halting, so that he does not\r\nappear unjust and unequal. As one, then, is righteous, so certainly is\r\nhe a believer. But as he is a believer, he is not yet also righteous—I\r\nmean according to the righteousness of progress and perfection,\r\naccording to which the Gnostic is called righteous.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK VI.","CHAPTER XII. HUMAN NATURE POSSESSES AN ADAPTATION FOR PERFECTION; THE GNOSTIC ALONE ATTAINS IT."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_1074","paragraph_id":"pg73020-paragraph-787"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"7b418c5d401a9624ec74be90094b4fd82f424959c661f7b674dde733a7c1a643","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_1074","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_1074","source_ebook":73020,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_1074\" id=\"Footnote_1074\">[1074]</a> Metaphorical expression for perfect. The phrase “a\r\nquadrangular man” is found in Plato and Aristotle.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"c35077683d75abe553cc6ef5d3ef5a1a978f07dfbcf4bad5c3d56302ad03dc19","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_1074","text_sha256":"61b69ec6f9b6c63bf04183c5e5648b7406629e9e8fa4e098f466afdddfa7f078","verified":false,"work_id":null}