{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>For although you are not yet able to do the things enjoined by the\r\nLaw, yet, considering that the noblest examples are set before us in\r\nit, we are able to nourish and increase the love of liberty; and so\r\nwe shall profit more eagerly as far as we can, inviting some things,\r\nimitating some things, and fearing others. For thus the righteous\r\nof the olden time, who lived according to the law, “were not from a\r\nstoried oak, or from a rock;” because they wished to philosophize\r\ntruly, took and devoted themselves entirely to God, and were classified\r\nunder faith. Zeno said well of the Indians, that he would rather have\r\nseen one Indian roasted, than have learned the whole of the arguments\r\nabout bearing pain. But we have exhibited before our eyes every day\r\nabundant sources of martyrs that are burnt, impaled, beheaded. All\r\nthese the fear inspired by the law,—leading as a pædagogue to Christ,\r\ntrained so as to manifest their piety by their blood. “God stood in the\r\ncongregation of the gods; He judgeth in the midst of the gods.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_234\" id=\"FNanchor_234\">[234]</a>\r\nWho are they? Those that are superior to Pleasure, who rise above the\r\npassions, who know what they do—the Gnostics, who are greater than the\r\nworld. “I said, Ye are gods; and all sons of the Highest.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_235\" id=\"FNanchor_235\">[235]</a> To whom\r\nspeaks the Lord? To those who reject as far as possible all that is of\r\nman. And the apostle says, “For ye are not any longer in the flesh,\r\nbut<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_71\">[71]</span> in the Spirit.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_236\" id=\"FNanchor_236\">[236]</a> And again he says, “Though in the flesh, we\r\ndo not war after the flesh.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_237\" id=\"FNanchor_237\">[237]</a> “For flesh and blood cannot inherit\r\nthe kingdom of God, neither doth corruption inherit incorruption.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_238\" id=\"FNanchor_238\">[238]</a>\r\n“Lo, ye shall die like men,” the Spirit has said, confuting us.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK II.","CHAPTER XX. THE TRUE GNOSTIC EXERCISES PATIENCE AND SELF-RESTRAINT."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_236","paragraph_id":"pg73020-paragraph-116"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"353718ef1046b72170b2d9217bd3f33c9427ef1db7f3fc1b8777108d648e9251","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"ROM","chapter":8,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Rom. viii. 9","verse":9,"verse_end":9}],"headings":[],"id":"pg73020-Footnote_236","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_236","source_ebook":73020,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_236\" id=\"Footnote_236\">[236]</a> Rom. viii. 9.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"c35077683d75abe553cc6ef5d3ef5a1a978f07dfbcf4bad5c3d56302ad03dc19","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_236","text_sha256":"49ee2795924c3530a554f8788e28045fa68daf41c01c476904df4cdad3451040","verified":false,"work_id":null}