{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Should one say that Knowledge is founded on demonstration by a process\r\nof reasoning, let him hear that first principles are<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_9\">[9]</span> incapable of\r\ndemonstration; for they are known neither by art nor sagacity. For the\r\nlatter is conversant about objects that are susceptible of change,\r\nwhile the former is practical solely, and not theoretical.<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_26\" id=\"FNanchor_26\">[26]</a> Hence\r\nit is thought that the first cause of the universe can be apprehended\r\nby faith alone. For all knowledge is capable of being taught; and\r\nwhat is capable of being taught is founded on what is known before.\r\nBut the first cause of the universe was not previously known to the\r\nGreeks; neither, accordingly, to Thales, who came to the conclusion\r\nthat water was the first cause; nor to the other natural philosophers\r\nwho succeeded him, since it was Anaxagoras who was the first who\r\nassigned to Mind the supremacy over material things. But not even he\r\npreserved the dignity suited to the efficient cause, describing as\r\nhe did certain silly vortices, together with the inertia and even\r\nfoolishness of Mind. Wherefore also the Word says, “Call no man master\r\non earth.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_27\" id=\"FNanchor_27\">[27]</a> For knowledge is a state of mind that results from\r\ndemonstration; but Faith is a grace which from what is indemonstrable\r\nconducts to what is universal and simple, what is neither with matter,\r\nnor matter, nor under matter. But those who believe not, as to be\r\nexpected, drag all down from heaven, and the region of the invisible,\r\nto earth, “absolutely grasping with their hands rocks and oaks,”\r\naccording to Plato. For, clinging to all such things, they asseverate\r\nthat that alone exists which can be touched and handled, defining body\r\nand essence to be identical: disputing against themselves, they very\r\npiously defend the existence of certain intellectual and bodiless forms\r\ndescending somewhere from above from the invisible world, vehemently\r\nmaintaining that there is a true essence. “Lo, I make new things,”\r\nsaith the Word, “which eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, nor hath it\r\nentered into the heart of man.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_28\" id=\"FNanchor_28\">[28]</a> With a new eye, a new ear, a new\r\nheart, whatever can be seen and heard is to be apprehended, by the\r\nfaith and understanding of the disciples of the Lord, who speak, hear,\r\nand act spiritually. For there is genuine coin, and other that is\r\nspurious; which no less deceives<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_10\">[10]</span> unprofessionals, that it does not\r\nthe money-changers; who know through having learned how to separate\r\nand distinguish what has a false stamp from what is genuine. So the\r\nmoney-changer only says to the unprofessional man that the coin is\r\ncounterfeit. But the reason why, only the banker’s apprentice, and he\r\nthat is trained to this department, learns.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK II.","CHAPTER IV. FAITH THE FOUNDATION OF ALL KNOWLEDGE."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_26","paragraph_id":"pg73020-paragraph-27"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"e66351b97f7bd85f6362f01df55459baaf6b43b602273bdc23ff50f948511b6f","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg73020-Footnote_26","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_26","source_ebook":73020,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_26\" id=\"Footnote_26\">[26]</a> Instead of μονονουχί, Petavius and Lowth read μόνον,\r\nοὐχί, as above.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"c35077683d75abe553cc6ef5d3ef5a1a978f07dfbcf4bad5c3d56302ad03dc19","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_26","text_sha256":"f431412a555190c18aa2b3edd40e47026ea853e88b6bbcce5b31862268d69847","verified":false,"work_id":null}