{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>But the multitude are frightened at the Hellenic philosophy, as\r\nchildren are at masks, being afraid lest it lead them astray. But\r\nif the faith (for I cannot call it knowledge) which they possess be\r\nsuch as to be dissolved by plausible speech, let it be by all means\r\ndissolved,<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1028\" id=\"FNanchor_1028\">[1028]</a> and let them confess that they will not retain the\r\ntruth. For truth is immoveable; but false opinion dissolves. We choose,\r\nfor instance, one purple by comparison with another purple. So that,\r\nif one confesses that he has not a heart that has been made right, he\r\nhas not the table of the money-changers or the test of words.<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1029\" id=\"FNanchor_1029\">[1029]</a> And\r\nhow can he be any longer a money-changer, who is not able to test and\r\ndistinguish spurious coin, even offhand?</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK VI.","CHAPTER X. THE GNOSTIC AVAILS HIMSELF OF THE HELP OF ALL HUMAN KNOWLEDGE."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_1028","paragraph_id":"pg73020-paragraph-748"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"f802b195b5a88ea0e7f3dcbe8169baf3acd45f3a68073bab2ec4ccda82d7cf55","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_1028","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_1028","source_ebook":73020,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_1028\" id=\"Footnote_1028\">[1028]</a> There is some difficulty in the sentence as it stands.\r\nHervetus omits in his translation the words rendered here, “let it be\r\nby all means dissolved.” We have omitted διὰ τούτους, which follows\r\nimmediately after, but which is generally retained and translated “by\r\nthese,” <i>i.e.</i> philosophers.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"c35077683d75abe553cc6ef5d3ef5a1a978f07dfbcf4bad5c3d56302ad03dc19","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_1028","text_sha256":"27f4ab71e5f5073e6ca2a12d8ccde601b078ece81b313c08d332891473e80cde","verified":false,"work_id":null}