{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>We are taught that there are three kinds of friendship: and that\r\nof these the first and the best is that which results from virtue,\r\nfor the love that is founded on reason is firm; that the second and\r\nintermediate is by way of recompense, and is social, liberal, and\r\nuseful for life; for the friendship which is the result of favour\r\nis mutual. And the third and last <i>we</i> assert to be that which\r\nis founded on intimacy; others, again, that it is that variable\r\nand changeable form which rests on pleasure. And Hippodamus the\r\nPythagorean seems to me to describe friendships most admirably: “That\r\nfounded on knowledge of the gods, that founded on the gifts of men,\r\nand that on the pleasures of animals.” There is the friendship of a\r\nphilosopher,—that of a man and that of an animal. For the image of\r\nGod is really the man who does good, in which also he gets good: as\r\nthe pilot at once saves, and is saved. Wherefore, when one obtains\r\nhis request, he does not say to the giver, Thou hast given well, but,\r\nThou hast received well. So he receives who gives, and he gives who\r\nreceives. “But the righteous pity and show mercy.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_216\" id=\"FNanchor_216\">[216]</a> “But<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_60\">[60]</span> the mild\r\nshall be inhabitants of the earth, and the innocent shall be left in\r\nit. But the transgressors shall be extirpated from it.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_217\" id=\"FNanchor_217\">[217]</a> And Homer\r\nseems to me to have said prophetically of the faithful, “Give to thy\r\nfriend.” And an enemy must be aided, that he may not continue an enemy.\r\nFor by help good feeling is compacted, and enmity dissolved. “But if\r\nthere be present readiness of mind, according to what a man hath it\r\nis acceptable, and not according to what he hath not; for it is not\r\nthat there be ease to others, but tribulation to you, but of equality\r\nat the present time,” and so forth.<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_218\" id=\"FNanchor_218\">[218]</a> “He hath dispersed, he hath\r\ngiven to the poor; his righteousness endureth for ever,” the Scripture\r\nsays.<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_219\" id=\"FNanchor_219\">[219]</a> For conformity with the image and likeness is not meant of\r\nthe body (for it were wrong for what is mortal to be made like what is\r\nimmortal), but in mind and reason, on which fitly the Lord impresses\r\nthe seal of likeness, both in respect of doing good and of exercising\r\nrule. For governments are directed not by corporeal qualities, but\r\nby judgments of the mind. For by the counsels of holy men states are\r\nmanaged well, and the household also.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK II.","CHAPTER XIX. THE TRUE GNOSTIC IS AN IMITATOR OF GOD, ESPECIALLY IN BENEFICENCE."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_216","paragraph_id":"pg73020-paragraph-93"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"e00581329457650cb00b984355aabbdf47cb5817526090dd0c6782a50429a642","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"PRO","chapter":21,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Prov. xxi. 26","verse":26,"verse_end":26}],"headings":[],"id":"pg73020-Footnote_216","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_216","source_ebook":73020,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_216\" id=\"Footnote_216\">[216]</a> Prov. xxi. 26.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"c35077683d75abe553cc6ef5d3ef5a1a978f07dfbcf4bad5c3d56302ad03dc19","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_216","text_sha256":"7dab3f3b811844f708dae1ec4251e194a98f0387bed79f936afb44166638bbf5","verified":false,"work_id":null}