{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>But it is said Providence, from above, from what is of prime\r\nimportance, as from the head, reaches to all, “as the ointment,” it\r\nis said, “which descends to Aaron’s beard, and to the skirt of his\r\ngarment”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1168\" id=\"FNanchor_1168\">[1168]</a> (that is, of the great High Priest, “by whom all things\r\nwere made, and without whom not even one thing was made”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1169\" id=\"FNanchor_1169\">[1169]</a>); not\r\nto the ornament of the body; for Philosophy is outside of the People,\r\nlike raiment.<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1170\" id=\"FNanchor_1170\">[1170]</a> The philosophers, therefore, who, trained to their\r\nown peculiar power of perception by the spirit of perception, when\r\nthey investigate, not a part of philosophy, but philosophy absolutely,\r\ntestify to the truth in a truth-loving and humble spirit; if in the\r\ncase of good things said by those even who are of different sentiments\r\nthey advance to understanding, through the divine administration, and\r\nthe ineffable Goodness, which always, as far as possible, leads the\r\nnature of existences to that which is better. Then, by cultivating\r\nthe acquaintance not of Greeks alone, but also of Barbarians, from\r\nthe exercise common to their proper intelligence, they are conducted\r\nto Faith. And when they have embraced the foundation of truth, they\r\nreceive in addition the power of advancing further to investigation.\r\nAnd thence they love to be learners, and aspiring after knowledge,\r\nhaste to salvation.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK VI.","CHAPTER XVII. PHILOSOPHY CONVEYS ONLY AN IMPERFECT KNOWLEDGE OF GOD."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_1169","paragraph_id":"pg73020-paragraph-877"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"099d349c171764d6b2b79a99106de6066747fe321622860d35f8406ee1d0da7d","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"JHN","chapter":1,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"John i. 3","verse":3,"verse_end":3}],"headings":[],"id":"pg73020-Footnote_1169","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_1169","source_ebook":73020,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_1169\" id=\"Footnote_1169\">[1169]</a> John i. 3.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"c35077683d75abe553cc6ef5d3ef5a1a978f07dfbcf4bad5c3d56302ad03dc19","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_1169","text_sha256":"a2b5b8f86ab2f22d26fd27b659591c10f0904c030a367b373487888b6c33f5d8","verified":false,"work_id":null}