{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>The philosophers did not exert themselves in contemning the appearance\r\nof the Lord. It therefore follows that it is the opinion of the wise\r\namong the Jews which the apostle inveighs against it. Wherefore he\r\nadds, “But we preach, as it is written, what eye hath not seen, and\r\near hath not heard, and hath not entered into the heart of man, what\r\nGod hath prepared for them that love Him. For God hath revealed it\r\nto us by the Spirit. For the Spirit searcheth all things, even the\r\ndeep things of God.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_749\" id=\"FNanchor_749\">[749]</a> For he recognises the spiritual man and the\r\ngnostic as the disciple of the Holy Spirit dispensed by God, which is\r\nthe mind of Christ. “But the natural man receiveth not the things of\r\nthe Spirit, for they are foolishness to him.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_750\" id=\"FNanchor_750\">[750]</a> Now the apostle,\r\nin contradistinction to gnostic perfection, calls the common faith\r\n<i>the foundation</i>, and sometimes <i>milk</i>, writing on this wise:\r\n“Brethren, I could not speak to you as to spiritual, but as to carnal,\r\nto babes in Christ. I have fed you with milk, not with meat: for ye\r\nwere not able. Neither yet are ye now able. For ye are yet carnal: for\r\nwhereas there is among you envy and strife, are ye not carnal, and\r\nwalk as men?”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_751\" id=\"FNanchor_751\">[751]</a> Which things are the choice of those men who are\r\nsinners. But those who abstain from these things give their thoughts\r\nto divine things, and partake of gnostic food. “According to the\r\ngrace,” it is said, “given to me as a wise master builder, I have laid<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_236\">[236]</span>\r\nthe foundation. And another buildeth on it gold and silver, precious\r\nstones.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_752\" id=\"FNanchor_752\">[752]</a> Such is the gnostic superstructure on the foundation of\r\nfaith in Christ Jesus. But “the stubble, and the wood, and the hay,”\r\nare the additions of heresies. “But the fire shall try every man’s\r\nwork, of what sort it is.” In allusion to the gnostic edifice also in\r\nthe Epistle to the Romans, he says, “For I desire to see you, that I\r\nmay impart unto you a spiritual gift, that ye may be established.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_753\" id=\"FNanchor_753\">[753]</a>\r\nIt was impossible that gifts of this sort could be written without\r\ndisguise.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK V.","CHAPTER IV. DIVINE THINGS WRAPPED UP IN FIGURES BOTH IN THE SACRED AND IN HEATHEN WRITERS."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_752","paragraph_id":"pg73020-paragraph-331"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"c9bc9f73701dd6db23c0677dbf083c4be747320718b40a1cdc07ba58446a1cf7","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"1CO","chapter":3,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"1 Cor. iii. 10–13","verse":10,"verse_end":13}],"headings":[],"id":"pg73020-Footnote_752","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_752","source_ebook":73020,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_752\" id=\"Footnote_752\">[752]</a> 1 Cor. iii. 10–13.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"c35077683d75abe553cc6ef5d3ef5a1a978f07dfbcf4bad5c3d56302ad03dc19","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_752","text_sha256":"acc6241c137e503b00033b37794216cde0caea4ba555eb84db47b0c17e8a3613","verified":false,"work_id":null}