{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>But on the Scriptures being opened up, and declaring the truth to\r\nthose who have ears, they proclaim the very suffering endured by the\r\nflesh, which the Lord assumed, to be “the power and wisdom of God.”\r\nAnd finally, the parabolic style of Scripture being of the greatest\r\nantiquity, as we have shown, abounded most, as was to be expected,\r\nin the prophets, in order that the Holy Spirit might show that the\r\nphilosophers among the Greeks, and the wise men among the Barbarians\r\nbesides, were ignorant of the future coming of the Lord, and of\r\nthe mystic teaching that was to be delivered by Him. Rightly then,\r\nprophecy, in proclaiming the Lord, in order not to seem to some to\r\nblaspheme while speaking what was beyond the ideas of the multitude,\r\nembodied its declarations in expressions capable of leading to other\r\nconceptions. Now all the prophets who foretold the Lord’s coming,\r\nand the holy mysteries accompanying it, were persecuted and killed.\r\nAs also the Lord Himself, in explaining the Scriptures to them, and\r\nHis disciples who preached the word like Him, and subsequently to His\r\nlife used parables.<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1133\" id=\"FNanchor_1133\">[1133]</a> Whence also Peter, in his <i>Preaching</i>,\r\nspeaking of the apostles, says:<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_380\">[380]</span> “But we, unrolling the books of the\r\nprophets which we possess, who name Jesus Christ, partly in parables,\r\npartly in enigmas, partly expressly and in so many words, find His\r\ncoming and death, and cross, and all the rest of the tortures which\r\nthe Jews inflicted on Him, and His resurrection and assumption to\r\nheaven previous to the capture<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1134\" id=\"FNanchor_1134\">[1134]</a> of Jerusalem. As it is written,\r\n<i>These things are all that He behoved to suffer, and what should be\r\nafter Him</i>. Recognising them, therefore, we have believed in God in\r\nconsequence of what is written respecting Him.”</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK VI.","CHAPTER XV. DIFFERENT DEGREES OF KNOWLEDGE.","Reasons for the meaning of Scripture being veiled."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_1133","paragraph_id":"pg73020-paragraph-824"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"6b9d164e5700646c641bef9193fb8f4ad556f14a7bc36f47b15cdd22422d00ef","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg73020-Footnote_1133","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_1133","source_ebook":73020,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_1133\" id=\"Footnote_1133\">[1133]</a> μετ’ αὐτὸν τὸ ζῇν παρεβάλοντο. The translation of\r\nHervetus, which we have followed, supposes the reading αὐτοῦ instead\r\nof αὐτόν. Others, retaining the latter, translated τὸ ζῇν παρεβάλοντο\r\n(sacrificed life). But the former is most to the author’s purpose.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"c35077683d75abe553cc6ef5d3ef5a1a978f07dfbcf4bad5c3d56302ad03dc19","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_1133","text_sha256":"653cc06096edd66153d1f42ed6a82562fb5a90cc7465dcbc25cae9f92a6dfbcb","verified":false,"work_id":null}