{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Faith is then, so to speak, a comprehensive knowledge of the\r\nessentials; and knowledge is the strong and sure demonstration of\r\nwhat is received by faith, built upon faith by the Lord’s teaching,\r\nconveying [the soul] on to infallibility, science, and comprehension.\r\nAnd, in my view, the first saving change is that from heathenism to\r\nfaith, as I said before; and the second, that from faith to knowledge.\r\nAnd<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_448\">[448]</span> the latter terminating in love, thereafter gives the loving to\r\nthe loved, that which knows to that which is known. And, perchance,\r\nsuch an one has already attained the condition of “being equal to\r\nthe angels.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1251\" id=\"FNanchor_1251\">[1251]</a> Accordingly, after the highest excellence in the\r\nflesh, changing always duly to the better, he urges his flight to the\r\nancestral hall, through the holy septenniad [of heavenly abodes] to the\r\nLord’s own mansion; to be a light, steady, and continuing eternally,\r\nentirely and in every part immutable.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK VII.","CHAPTER X. STEPS TO PERFECTION."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_1251","paragraph_id":"pg73020-paragraph-1048"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"5d3cfbc8f07145bd5160ca9f1addd173df86ae63b2e4bfc89d04017d1cea9c62","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"LUK","chapter":20,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Luke xx. 36","verse":36,"verse_end":36}],"headings":[],"id":"pg73020-Footnote_1251","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_1251","source_ebook":73020,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_1251\" id=\"Footnote_1251\">[1251]</a> Luke xx. 36.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"c35077683d75abe553cc6ef5d3ef5a1a978f07dfbcf4bad5c3d56302ad03dc19","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_1251","text_sha256":"58aab67f5b721dc22d09fb723a8f4672ed9ba460d89f0fb225dab8b79ca9302f","verified":false,"work_id":null}