{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>And if knowledge belong not to all (set an ass to the lyre, as the\r\nproverb goes), yet written compositions are for the many. “Swine, for\r\ninstance, delight in dirt more than in clean water.” “Wherefore,” says\r\nthe Lord, “I speak to them in parables: because seeing, they see not;\r\nand hearing, they hear not, and do not understand;”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_807\" id=\"FNanchor_807\">[807]</a> not as if\r\nthe Lord caused the ignorance: for it were impious to think so. But\r\nHe prophetically exposed this ignorance, that existed in them, and\r\nintimated that they would not understand the things spoken. And now\r\nthe Saviour shows Himself, out of His abundance, dispensing goods to\r\nHis servants according to the ability of the recipient, that they may\r\naugment them by exercising activity, and then returning to reckon with\r\nthem; when, approving of those that had increased His money, those\r\nfaithful in little, and commanding them to have the charge over many\r\nthings, He bade them enter into the joy of the Lord. But to him who\r\nhad hid the money, entrusted to him to be given out at interest, and\r\nhad given it back as he had received it, without increase, He said,\r\n“Thou wicked and slothful servant, thou oughtest to have given my money\r\nto the bankers, and at my coming I should have received mine own.”\r\nWherefore the useless servant “shall be cast into outer darkness.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_808\" id=\"FNanchor_808\">[808]</a>\r\n“Thou, therefore, be strong,” says Paul, “in the grace that is in\r\nChrist Jesus. And the things which thou hast heard of me among many\r\nwitnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to\r\nteach others also.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_809\" id=\"FNanchor_809\">[809]</a> And again: “Study to show thyself approved<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_351\">[351]</span>\r\nunto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing\r\nthe word of truth.”</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","THE MISCELLANIES.","BOOK I.","CHAPTER I. PREFACE—THE AUTHOR’S OBJECT—THE UTILITY OF WRITTEN COMPOSITIONS."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_809","paragraph_id":"pg71937-paragraph-656"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"95ef4dd181973cfb562a40b6908d564443fe7e3ae75f9e6680c6022f4131abb7","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1867,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"2TI","chapter":2,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"2 Tim. ii. 1","verse":1,"verse_end":1}],"headings":[],"id":"pg71937-Footnote_809","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_809","source_ebook":71937,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_809\" id=\"Footnote_809\">[809]</a> 2 Tim. ii. 1, 2.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"8e5c5bc39922dbad2626ac7651c2eb2e3d94cdcbd721f781e9792143ebb1cd03","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/71937/pg71937-images.html#Footnote_809","text_sha256":"bc00d0ee2d0d5664dfd56474407a6ace3421fc6ca2a81be7fe540dca5eca0784","verified":false,"work_id":null}