{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>For it were not seemly that we, after the fashion of the rich man’s son\r\nin the Gospel,<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_437\" id=\"FNanchor_437\">[437]</a> should, as prodigals, abuse the Father’s gifts;\r\nbut we should use them, without undue<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_192\">[192]</span> attachment to them, as having\r\ncommand over ourselves. For we are enjoined to reign and rule over\r\nmeats, not to be slaves to them. It is an admirable thing, therefore,\r\nto raise our eyes aloft to what is true, to depend on that divine food\r\nabove, and to satiate ourselves with the exhaustless contemplation\r\nof that which truly exists, and so taste of the only sure and pure\r\ndelight. For such is the <i>agape</i>, which, the food that comes from\r\nChrist shows that we ought to partake of. But totally irrational,\r\nfutile, and not human is it for those that are of the earth, fattening\r\nthemselves like cattle, to feed themselves up for death; looking\r\ndownwards on the earth, and bending ever over tables; leading a life\r\nof gluttony; burying all the good of existence here in a life that by\r\nand by will end; courting voracity alone, in respect to which cooks\r\nare held in higher esteem than husbandmen. For we do not abolish\r\nsocial intercourse, but look with suspicion on the snares of custom,\r\nand regard them as a calamity. Wherefore daintiness is to be shunned,\r\nand we are to partake of few and necessary things. “And if one of the\r\nunbelievers call us to a feast, and we determine to go” (for it is a\r\ngood thing not to mix with the dissolute), the apostle bids us “eat\r\nwhat is set before us, asking no questions for conscience sake.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_438\" id=\"FNanchor_438\">[438]</a>\r\nSimilarly he has enjoined to purchase “what is sold in the shambles,”\r\nwithout curious questioning.<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_439\" id=\"FNanchor_439\">[439]</a></p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","THE INSTRUCTOR.","BOOK II.","CHAPTER I. ON EATING."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_439","paragraph_id":"pg71937-paragraph-339"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"85de5c0f1187d613af1ea27b2188719731132163932be6c62741cd541bdcdd77","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1867,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"1CO","chapter":10,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"1 Cor. x. 25","verse":25,"verse_end":25}],"headings":[],"id":"pg71937-Footnote_439","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 1867 English translation; translator died 1875. Electronic transcription subject to Project Gutenberg reuse terms.","source_anchor":"Footnote_439","source_ebook":71937,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_439\" id=\"Footnote_439\">[439]</a> 1 Cor. x. 25.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"8e5c5bc39922dbad2626ac7651c2eb2e3d94cdcbd721f781e9792143ebb1cd03","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/71937/pg71937-images.html#Footnote_439","text_sha256":"2c9932c1e753b3e493ae5faec2a784e4b363de4ab23556865da786c82277370e","verified":false,"work_id":null}