{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>And as a similar rule holds with regard to hearing and seeing in\r\nthe case of what is obscene, the divine Instructor, following the\r\nsame course with both, arrays those children who are engaged in the\r\nstruggle in words of modesty, as ear-guards, so that the pulsation\r\nof fornication may not penetrate to the bruising of the soul; and He\r\ndirects the eyes to the sight of what is honourable, saying that it is\r\nbetter to make a slip with the feet than with the eyes. This filthy\r\nspeaking the apostle beats off, saying, “Let no corrupt communication\r\nproceed out of your mouth, but what is good.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_515\" id=\"FNanchor_515\">[515]</a> And again, “As\r\nbecometh saints, let not filthiness be named among you, nor foolish\r\ntalking, nor jesting, which things are not seemly, but rather giving\r\nof thanks.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_516\" id=\"FNanchor_516\">[516]</a> And if “he that calls his brother a fool be in danger\r\nof the judgment,” what shall we pronounce regarding him who speaks\r\nwhat is foolish? Is it not written respecting such: “Whosoever shall\r\nspeak an idle word, shall give an account to the Lord in the day of\r\njudgment?”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_517\" id=\"FNanchor_517\">[517]</a> And again, “By thy speech thou shalt be<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_223\">[223]</span> justified,” He\r\nsays, “and by thy speech thou shalt be condemned.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_518\" id=\"FNanchor_518\">[518]</a> What, then, are\r\nthe salutary ear-guards, and what the regulations for slippery eyes?\r\nConversations with the righteous, preoccupying and forearming the ears\r\nagainst those that would lead away from the truth.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","THE INSTRUCTOR.","BOOK II.","CHAPTER VI. ON FILTHY SPEAKING."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_515","paragraph_id":"pg71937-paragraph-396"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"c1790c1bf914d7391bbd8cea33faaf8c06326a38b48463893d2f92e3acc273c7","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1867,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"EPH","chapter":4,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Eph. iv. 29","verse":29,"verse_end":29}],"headings":[],"id":"pg71937-Footnote_515","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_515","source_ebook":71937,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_515\" id=\"Footnote_515\">[515]</a> Eph. iv. 29.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"8e5c5bc39922dbad2626ac7651c2eb2e3d94cdcbd721f781e9792143ebb1cd03","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/71937/pg71937-images.html#Footnote_515","text_sha256":"03a88e2ac69b5bd47f3e55db6150af2e82815ad09e7efc467e742c930f83f2a6","verified":false,"work_id":null}