{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>What we acquire without difficulty, and use with ease, we praise,\r\nkeep easily, and communicate freely. The things<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_214\">[214]</span> which are useful are\r\npreferable, and consequently cheap things are better than dear. In\r\nfine, wealth, when not properly governed, is a stronghold of evil,\r\nabout which many casting their eyes, they will never reach the kingdom\r\nof heaven, sick for the things of the world, and living proudly through\r\nluxury. But those who are in earnest about salvation must settle this\r\nbeforehand in their mind, “that all that we possess is given to us for\r\nuse, and use for sufficiency, which one may attain to by a few things.”\r\nFor silly are they who, from greed, take delight in what they have\r\nhoarded up. “He that gathereth wages,” it is said, “gathereth into a\r\nbag with holes.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_499\" id=\"FNanchor_499\">[499]</a> Such is he who gathers corn and shuts it up; and\r\nhe who giveth to no one, becomes poorer.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","THE INSTRUCTOR.","BOOK II.","CHAPTER III. ON COSTLY VESSELS."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_499","paragraph_id":"pg71937-paragraph-376"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"00adbf32426cd360495e60b1d7903740c64781c7c0a587fe11aa6edb19e7abf6","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1867,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg71937-Footnote_499","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 1867 English translation; translator died 1875. Electronic transcription subject to Project Gutenberg reuse terms.","source_anchor":"Footnote_499","source_ebook":71937,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_499\" id=\"Footnote_499\">[499]</a> Hag. i. 6.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"8e5c5bc39922dbad2626ac7651c2eb2e3d94cdcbd721f781e9792143ebb1cd03","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/71937/pg71937-images.html#Footnote_499","text_sha256":"b36a7ba6f36c13b4aa50d088de66566d015210c5dd50aedd16e45f3bfa1eee93","verified":false,"work_id":null}