{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>What, then, will they have the law to be? They will not call it evil,\r\nbut just; distinguishing what is good from what is just. But the Lord,\r\nwhen He enjoins us to dread evil, does not exchange one evil for\r\nanother, but abolishes what is opposite by its opposite. Now evil is\r\nthe opposite of good, as what is just is of what is unjust. If, then,\r\nthat absence of fear, which the fear of the Lord produces, is called\r\nthe beginning of what is good,<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_82\" id=\"FNanchor_82\">[82]</a> fear is a good thing. And the fear\r\nwhich proceeds from the law is not only just, but good, as it takes\r\naway evil. But introducing absence of fear by means of fear, it does\r\nnot produce apathy by means of mental perturbation, but moderation\r\nof feeling by discipline. When, then, we hear, “Honour the Lord, and\r\nbe strong: but fear not another besides Him,”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_83\" id=\"FNanchor_83\">[83]</a> we understand it\r\nto be meant fearing to sin, and following the commandments given by\r\nGod, which is the honour that cometh from God. For the fear of God\r\nis Δέος [in Greek]. But if fear is perturbation of mind, as some\r\nwill have it that fear is perturbation of mind, yet all fear is not\r\nperturbation. Superstition is indeed perturbation of mind; being the\r\nfear of demons, that produce and are subject to the excitement of\r\npassion. On the other hand, consequently, the fear of God, who is not\r\nsubject to perturbation, is free of perturbation. For it is not God,\r\nbut falling away from God, that the man is terrified for. And he who\r\nfears this—that is, falling into evils—fears and dreads those evils.\r\nAnd he who fears a fall, wishes himself to be free of corruption and\r\nperturbation. “The wise man, fearing, avoids evil: but the foolish,\r\ntrusting, mixes himself with it,” says the Scripture; and again it\r\nsays, “In the fear of the Lord is the hope of strength.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_84\" id=\"FNanchor_84\">[84]</a></p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK II.","CHAPTER VIII. THE VAGARIES OF BASILIDES AND VALENTINUS AS TO FEAR BEING THE CAUSE OF THINGS."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_83","paragraph_id":"pg73020-paragraph-50"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"b30d7a887d6d571c928bbcaeb1d1b3cb02745a764379e71572427bedb05b71ae","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":7,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Prov. vii. 2","verse":2,"verse_end":2}],"headings":[],"id":"pg73020-Footnote_83","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_83","source_ebook":73020,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_83\" id=\"Footnote_83\">[83]</a> Prov. vii. 2.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"c35077683d75abe553cc6ef5d3ef5a1a978f07dfbcf4bad5c3d56302ad03dc19","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_83","text_sha256":"b05b190e6b7576aa9fcb7e2ad245882c633b6105bd38cb61db305a03902db8d5","verified":false,"work_id":null}