{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>We ought not to surrender our ears to all who speak and<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_228\">[228]</span> write\r\nrashly. For cups also, which are taken hold of by many by the ears,\r\nare dirtied, and lose the ears; and besides, when they fall they are\r\nbroken. In the same way also, those, who have polluted the pure hearing\r\nof faith by many trifles, at last becoming deaf to the truth, become\r\nuseless and fall to the earth. It is not, then, without reason that\r\nwe commanded boys to kiss their relations, holding them by the ears;\r\nindicating this, that the feeling of love is engendered by hearing. And\r\n“God,” who is known to those who love, “is love,”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_721\" id=\"FNanchor_721\">[721]</a> as “God,” who by\r\ninstruction is communicated to the faithful, “is faithful;”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_722\" id=\"FNanchor_722\">[722]</a> and we\r\nmust be allied to Him by divine love: so that by like we may see like,\r\nhearing the word of truth guilelessly and purely, as children who obey\r\nus. And this was what he, whoever he was, indicated who wrote on the\r\nentrance to the temple at Epidaurus the inscription:</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK V.","CHAPTER I. ON FAITH."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_721","paragraph_id":"pg73020-paragraph-313"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"ba5ab5df27382a740ffe118fd429b760cb779e09fda2bd0c596546e346ec5880","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"1JN","chapter":4,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"1 John iv. 16","verse":16,"verse_end":16}],"headings":[],"id":"pg73020-Footnote_721","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_721","source_ebook":73020,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_721\" id=\"Footnote_721\">[721]</a> 1 John iv. 16.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"c35077683d75abe553cc6ef5d3ef5a1a978f07dfbcf4bad5c3d56302ad03dc19","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_721","text_sha256":"205837eb994ee6bffeaea57859cb86da398e78a783397fb7741f34bc8a1b1153","verified":false,"work_id":null}