{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"p-left\">To the multitude, then, this vain labour is desirable.\r\nBut to us the apostle says, “Now we know this, that our old man is\r\ncrucified with Him, that the body of sin might be destroyed,<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_163\">[163]</span> that\r\nhenceforth we should not serve sin.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_545\" id=\"FNanchor_545\">[545]</a> Does not the apostle then\r\nplainly add the following, to show the contempt for faith in the case\r\nof the multitude? “For I think that God hath set forth us the apostles\r\nlast, as appointed to death: we are made a spectacle to the world, and\r\nto angels, and to men. Up to this present hour we both hunger, and\r\nthirst, and are naked, and are beaten, and are feeble, and labour,\r\nworking with our hands. Being reviled, we bless; being persecuted,\r\nwe endure; being defamed, we entreat; we are become as it were the\r\noffscourings of the world.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_546\" id=\"FNanchor_546\">[546]</a> Such also are the words of Plato in\r\nthe <i>Republic</i>: “The just man, though stretched on the rack,\r\nthough his eyes are dug out, will be happy.” The Gnostic will never\r\nthen have the chief end placed in life, but in being always happy and\r\nblessed, and a kingly friend of God. Although visited with ignominy\r\nand exile, and confiscation, and above all, death, he will never\r\nbe wrenched from his freedom, and signal love to God. “The charity\r\nwhich bears all things, endures all things,”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_547\" id=\"FNanchor_547\">[547]</a> is assured that\r\nDivine Providence orders all things well. “I exhort you,” therefore\r\nit is said, “Be followers of me.” The first step to salvation<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_548\" id=\"FNanchor_548\">[548]</a>\r\nis the instruction accompanied with fear, in consequence of which\r\nwe abstain from what is wrong; and the second is hope, by reason of\r\nwhich we desire the best things; but love, as is fitting, perfects, by\r\ntraining now according to knowledge. For the Greeks, I know not how,\r\nattributing events to unreasoning necessity, own that they yield to\r\nthem unwillingly. Accordingly Euripides says:</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK IV.","CHAPTER VII. THE BLESSEDNESS OF THE MARTYR."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_548","paragraph_id":"pg73020-paragraph-213"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"79189da8cfa62af083cba53fc0f3ed7225633771febb9f3287c3cc4f1f677d3d","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_548","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_548","source_ebook":73020,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_548\" id=\"Footnote_548\">[548]</a> For σώματος read σωτηρίας.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"c35077683d75abe553cc6ef5d3ef5a1a978f07dfbcf4bad5c3d56302ad03dc19","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_548","text_sha256":"06a88803ab269c9a041d312f6f7e04c51347b9c58dc519235387a647aca61b97","verified":false,"work_id":null}