{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Fit objects for admiration are the Stoics, who say that the soul is\r\nnot affected by the body, either to vice by disease, or to virtue by\r\nhealth; but both these things, they say, are indifferent. And indeed\r\nJob, through exceeding continence, and excellence of faith, when from\r\nrich he became poor, from being held in honour dishonoured, from\r\nbeing comely unsightly, and sick from being healthy, is depicted as\r\na good example, putting the Tempter to shame, blessing his Creator;\r\nbearing what came second, as the first, and most clearly teaching\r\nthat it is possible for the gnostic to make an excellent use of all\r\ncircumstances. And that ancient achievements are proposed as images\r\nfor our correction, the apostle shows, when he says, “So that my bonds\r\nin Christ are become manifest in all the palace, and to all the rest;\r\nand several of the brethren in the Lord, waxing confident by my bonds,\r\nare much more bold to speak the word of God without fear,”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_499\" id=\"FNanchor_499\">[499]</a>—since\r\nmartyrs’ testimonies are examples of conversion gloriously sanctified.\r\n“For what things the Scripture speaks were written for our instruction,\r\nthat we, through patience and the consolation of the Scriptures, might\r\nhave the hope of consolation.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_500\" id=\"FNanchor_500\">[500]</a> When pain is present, the soul\r\nappears to decline from it, and to deem release from present pain a\r\nprecious thing. At that moment it slackens from studies, when the other\r\nvirtues also are neglected. And yet we do not say that it is virtue\r\nitself which suffers, for virtue is not affected by disease. But he who\r\nis partaker of both, of virtue and the disease, is afflicted by the\r\npressure of the latter; and if he who has not yet<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_149\">[149]</span> attained the habit\r\nof self-command be not a high-souled man, he is distraught; and the\r\ninability to endure it is found equivalent to fleeing from it.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK IV.","CHAPTER V. ON CONTEMPT FOR PAIN, POVERTY, AND OTHER EXTERNAL THINGS."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_500","paragraph_id":"pg73020-paragraph-190"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"ce30463d434ca59119ae5bc8cfc585d237b523999b50ad2da935174984b43908","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"ROM","chapter":15,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Rom. xv. 4","verse":4,"verse_end":4}],"headings":[],"id":"pg73020-Footnote_500","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_500","source_ebook":73020,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_500\" id=\"Footnote_500\">[500]</a> Rom. xv. 4.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"c35077683d75abe553cc6ef5d3ef5a1a978f07dfbcf4bad5c3d56302ad03dc19","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_500","text_sha256":"1f3d9edbf8df801ec4e0bb0a27ca2e8890f66f1d945979b7a3061c265c182eb1","verified":false,"work_id":null}