{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>“By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of\r\nGod, so that what is seen was not made of things which appear,” says\r\nthe apostle. “By faith Abel offered to God a fuller sacrifice than\r\nCain, by which he received testimony that he was righteous, God giving\r\ntestimony to him respecting his gifts; and by it he, being dead, yet\r\nspeaketh,” and so forth, down to “than enjoy the pleasures of sin\r\nfor a season.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_24\" id=\"FNanchor_24\">[24]</a> Faith having, therefore, justified these before\r\nthe law, made them heirs of the divine promise. Why then should I\r\nreview and adduce any further testimonies of faith from the history\r\nin our hands? “For the time would fail me were I to tell of Gideon,\r\nBarak, Samson, Jephtha, David, and Samuel, and the prophets,” and what\r\nfollows.<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_25\" id=\"FNanchor_25\">[25]</a> Now, inasmuch as there are four things in which the truth\r\nresides—Sensation, Understanding, Knowledge, Opinion,—intellectual\r\napprehension is first in the order of nature; but in our case, and\r\nin relation to ourselves, Sensation is first, and of Sensation and\r\nUnderstanding the essence of Knowledge is formed; and evidence is\r\ncommon to Understanding and Sensation. Well, Sensation is the ladder to\r\nKnowledge; while Faith, advancing over the pathway of the objects of\r\nsense, leaves Opinion behind, and speeds to things free of deception,\r\nand reposes in the truth.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK II.","CHAPTER IV. FAITH THE FOUNDATION OF ALL KNOWLEDGE."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_25","paragraph_id":"pg73020-paragraph-26"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"9a01e81c9b14ad1fd4a558e132ca62a0b2d98faa11d29b1be6bac8694c07103b","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"HEB","chapter":11,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Heb. xi. 32","verse":32,"verse_end":32}],"headings":[],"id":"pg73020-Footnote_25","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_25","source_ebook":73020,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_25\" id=\"Footnote_25\">[25]</a> Heb. xi. 32.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"c35077683d75abe553cc6ef5d3ef5a1a978f07dfbcf4bad5c3d56302ad03dc19","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_25","text_sha256":"6caecb586ae7f0babb3fa85abf72d2e375a03f008d82d819e94dee2989356eec","verified":false,"work_id":null}