{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>For instance, the noble apostle circumcised Timothy, though loudly\r\ndeclaring and writing that circumcision made with hands profits\r\nnothing.<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1247\" id=\"FNanchor_1247\">[1247]</a> But that he might not, by dragging all at once away from\r\nthe law to the circumcision of the heart through faith those of the\r\nHebrews who were reluctant listeners, compel them to break away from\r\nthe synagogue, he, “accommodating himself to the Jews, became a Jew\r\nthat he might gain all.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1248\" id=\"FNanchor_1248\">[1248]</a> He, then, who submits to accommodate\r\nhimself merely for the benefit of his neighbours, for the salvation\r\nof those for whose sake he accommodates himself, not partaking in any\r\ndissimulation through the peril impending over the just from those who\r\nenvy them, such an one by no means acts with compulsion.<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1249\" id=\"FNanchor_1249\">[1249]</a> But for\r\nthe benefit of his neighbours alone, he will do things which would\r\nnot have been done by him primarily, if he did not do them on their\r\naccount. Such an one gives himself for the Church, for the disciples\r\nwhom he has begotten in faith; for an example to those who are capable\r\nof receiving the supreme economy of the philanthropic and God-loving\r\nInstructor, for confirmation of the truth of his words, for the\r\nexercise of love to the Lord. Such an one is unenslaved by fear, true\r\nin word, enduring in labour, never willing to lie by uttered word, and\r\nin it always securing sinlessness; since falsehood, being spoken with a\r\ncertain deceit, is not an inert word, but operates to mischief.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK VII.","CHAPTER IX. THOSE WHO TEACH OTHERS, OUGHT TO EXCEL IN VIRTUES."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_1247","paragraph_id":"pg73020-paragraph-1039"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"302e1295e93f94f1b8c1b1c2b8803a2c62d5448ce3d0779a125f557ca8aea5b4","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":2,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Rom. ii. 25","verse":25,"verse_end":25},{"book":"EPH","chapter":2,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Eph. ii. 11","verse":11,"verse_end":11}],"headings":[],"id":"pg73020-Footnote_1247","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_1247","source_ebook":73020,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_1247\" id=\"Footnote_1247\">[1247]</a> Rom. ii. 25; Eph. ii. 11.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"c35077683d75abe553cc6ef5d3ef5a1a978f07dfbcf4bad5c3d56302ad03dc19","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_1247","text_sha256":"a1f65fc61914d5ec5a6b29f8841c28561143a9acc4e503a76b10a91ea3e02bd4","verified":false,"work_id":null}