{"author":"Historical editor/translator (individual note author unspecified)","date_end":1885,"date_label":"1885 (historical English edition; transcription printing date uncertain)","date_start":1885,"edition_year":1885,"edition_year_basis":"Historical ANF I copyright 1885; retained physical scan printing 1913; transcription printing date and individual translator allocation uncertain","id":"ws-library-full-note:a5eb82c6a55e941cb5de:cite_note-70","is_genuine_commentary_verified":false,"license_url":"https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Wikisource:Reusing_Wikisource_content","public_import_allowed":true,"publication_location":"source-library","record_type":"editorial-footnote","references":[],"rights_approved":true,"section":"Chapter XII.—The importance of knowledge to true spiritual life., editorial note cite_note-70","semantic_kind_reviewed":false,"source_context":["is disobedience that proves destructive. Nor truly are those words without significance which are written, how God from the beginning planted the tree of life in the midst of paradise, revealing through knowledge the way to life, and when those who were first formed did not use this [knowledge] properly, they were, through the fraud of the Serpent, stripped naked. For neither can life exist without knowledge, nor is knowledge secure without life. Wherefore both were planted close together. The Apostle, perceiving the force [of this conjunction], and blaming that knowledge which, without true doctrine, is admitted to influence life, declares, “Knowledge puffeth up, but love edifieth.” For he who thinks he knows anything without true knowledge, and such as is witnessed to by life, knows nothing, but is deceived by the Serpent, as not loving life. But he who combines knowledge with fear, and seeks after life, plants in hope, looking for fruit. Let your heart be your wisdom; and let your life be true knowledge inwardly received. Bearing this tree and displaying its fruit, thou shalt always gather in those things which are desired by God, which the Serpent cannot reach, and to which deception does not approach; nor is Eve then corrupted, but is trusted as a virgin; and salvation is manifested, and the Apostles are filled with understanding, and the Passover of the Lord advances, and the choirs are gathered together, and are arranged in proper order, and the Word rejoices in teaching the saints,—by whom the Father is glorified: to whom be glory for ever. Amen."],"source_library_url":"/library/a5eb82c6a55e941cb5de/#ws-library-full-note:a5eb82c6a55e941cb5de:cite_note-70","source_url":"https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Ante-Nicene_Fathers/Volume_I/Epistle_to_Diognetus#cite_note-70","translator":"Alexander Roberts (historical edition translation credit; individual allocation qualified), James Donaldson (historical edition translation credit; individual allocation qualified), Alexander Roberts (Edinburgh series editor), James Donaldson (Edinburgh series editor), Arthur Cleveland Coxe (American revision with prefaces and notes)","verification":{"proof_file":"raw/review/source-library-note-batch-0056/proof-records.jsonl","proof_file_sha256":"e0df170d421dcd73bd0a76f61768b09f25dd2e36668f01c873ba3f2300ffa8a2","proof_record_id":"ws-library-full-note:a5eb82c6a55e941cb5de:cite_note-70"},"verified":true,"work":"Epistle to Diognetus","work_id":"ws-anf1-remaining-1885-a5eb82c6a55e941cb5de"}