{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"drop-cap p-left\">Wherefore neither are we to provide for ourselves costly clothing any\r\nmore than variety of food. The Lord Himself, therefore, dividing His\r\nprecepts into what relates to the body, the soul, and thirdly, external\r\nthings, counsels us to provide external things on account of the body;\r\nand manages the body by the soul (ψυχὴ), and disciplines the soul,\r\nsaying, “Take no thought for your life (ψυχῇ), what ye shall eat; nor\r\nyet for your body, what ye shall put on; for the life is more than\r\nmeat, and the body more than raiment.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_586\" id=\"FNanchor_586\">[586]</a> And He adds a plain example\r\nof instruction: “Consider the ravens: for they neither sow nor reap,\r\nwhich have neither storehouse nor barn; and God feedeth them.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_587\" id=\"FNanchor_587\">[587]</a>\r\n“Are ye not better than the fowls?”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_588\" id=\"FNanchor_588\">[588]</a> Thus far as to food. Similarly\r\nHe enjoins with respect to clothing, which belongs to the third\r\ndivision, that of things external, saying, “Consider the lilies, how\r\nthey spin not, nor weave. But I say unto you, that not even Solomon\r\nwas arrayed as one of these.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_589\" id=\"FNanchor_589\">[589]</a> And Solomon the king plumed himself\r\nexceedingly on his riches.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","THE INSTRUCTOR.","BOOK II.","CHAPTER XI. ON CLOTHES."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_586","paragraph_id":"pg71937-paragraph-441"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"5aff7b77f8b3862773bf2e5d3f6cede24ca6bf47ec63870e3bac142337f85edc","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1867,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"LUK","chapter":12,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Luke xii. 22","verse":22,"verse_end":22}],"headings":[],"id":"pg71937-Footnote_586","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_586","source_ebook":71937,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_586\" id=\"Footnote_586\">[586]</a> Luke xii. 22, 23.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"8e5c5bc39922dbad2626ac7651c2eb2e3d94cdcbd721f781e9792143ebb1cd03","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/71937/pg71937-images.html#Footnote_586","text_sha256":"e20ae8e58a8aa1ada60befef9b84961b37775ee611b1ebbfda3bead15f745c14","verified":false,"work_id":null}