{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>But he does not even swear, preferring to make averment, in affirmation\r\nby “yea,” and in denial by “nay.” For it is an oath to swear, or to\r\nproduce<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1245\" id=\"FNanchor_1245\">[1245]</a> anything from the mind in the way of confirmation in the\r\nshape of an oath. It suffices then, with him, to add to an affirmation\r\nor denial the expression “I say truly,” for confirmation to those who\r\ndo not perceive the certainty of his answer. For he ought, I think,\r\nto maintain a life calculated to inspire confidence towards those\r\nwithout, so that an oath may not even be asked; and towards himself and\r\nthose with whom he associates,<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1246\" id=\"FNanchor_1246\">[1246]</a> good feeling, which is voluntary\r\nrighteousness.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK VII.","CHAPTER VIII. THE GNOSTIC SO ADDICTED TO TRUTH AS NOT TO NEED TO USE AN OATH."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_1246","paragraph_id":"pg73020-paragraph-1034"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"2d4ee3bcc8d7123b615580295489716b21ad3d472370fab8f35e491a777eb886","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_1246","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_1246","source_ebook":73020,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_1246\" id=\"Footnote_1246\">[1246]</a> συνιέντας, and (Sylburgius) συνιόντας.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"c35077683d75abe553cc6ef5d3ef5a1a978f07dfbcf4bad5c3d56302ad03dc19","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_1246","text_sha256":"b679e99c4c0646d6f735f76df2c8ebd6895ea249a08e95ae015cc6b635e2c365","verified":false,"work_id":null}