{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"p-left\">And for those who are aiming at perfection there is\r\nproposed the rational gnosis, the foundation of which is “the sacred\r\nTriad.” “Faith, hope, love; but the greatest of these is love.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_549\" id=\"FNanchor_549\">[549]</a>\r\nTruly, “all things are lawful, but all things are not expedient,”\r\nsays the apostle: “all things are lawful for me, but all things edify\r\nnot.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_550\" id=\"FNanchor_550\">[550]</a> And, “Let no one seek his own advantage, but also that of\r\nhis neighbour,”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_551\" id=\"FNanchor_551\">[551]</a> so as to be able at once to do and to teach,\r\nbuilding and building up. For that “the earth is the Lord’s, and the\r\nfulness thereof,” is admitted; but the conscience of the weak is\r\nsupported. “Conscience, I say, not his own, but that of the other; for\r\nwhy is my liberty judged of by another conscience? For if I by grace\r\nam partaker, why am I evil spoken of for that for which I give thanks?\r\nWhether therefore ye eat, or drink, or whatsoever ye do, do all to the\r\nglory of God.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_552\" id=\"FNanchor_552\">[552]</a> “For though we walk in the flesh, we do not war\r\nafter the flesh; for the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but\r\nmighty through God to the demolition of fortifications, demolishing\r\nthoughts, and every high thing which exalteth itself against the\r\nknowledge of Christ.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_553\" id=\"FNanchor_553\">[553]</a> Equipped with these weapons, the Gnostic\r\nsays: O Lord, give opportunity, and receive demonstration; let this\r\ndread event pass; I contemn dangers for the love I bear to Thee.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK IV.","CHAPTER VII. THE BLESSEDNESS OF THE MARTYR."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_550","paragraph_id":"pg73020-paragraph-215"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"134ad369e385602b53386afedadf76835962ca5f56d5b07b6ab927ab0fb81afc","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":10,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"1 Cor. x. 23","verse":23,"verse_end":23}],"headings":[],"id":"pg73020-Footnote_550","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_550","source_ebook":73020,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_550\" id=\"Footnote_550\">[550]</a> 1 Cor. x. 23.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"c35077683d75abe553cc6ef5d3ef5a1a978f07dfbcf4bad5c3d56302ad03dc19","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_550","text_sha256":"b35872c3ddd84eb26b2fa575e6f67bd168ce5927374ba5d28292a83742afe4ae","verified":false,"work_id":null}