{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Further, many also use the fat of milk, called butter, for the lamp,\r\nplainly indicating by this enigma the abundant unction of the Word,\r\nsince He alone it is who nourishes the infants, makes them grow,\r\nand enlightens them. Wherefore also the Scripture says respecting\r\nthe Lord, “He fed them with the produce of the fields; they sucked\r\nhoney from the rock, and oil from the solid rock, butter of kine,\r\nand milk of sheep, with fat of lambs;”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_253\" id=\"FNanchor_253\">[253]</a> and what follows He gave\r\nthem. But he that prophesies the birth of the child says: “Butter and\r\nhoney shall He eat.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_254\" id=\"FNanchor_254\">[254]</a> And it occurs to me to wonder how some dare\r\ncall themselves perfect and gnostics, with ideas of themselves above\r\nthe apostle, inflated and boastful, when Paul even owned respecting\r\nhimself, “Not that I have already attained, or am already perfect; but\r\nI follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which I am apprehended\r\nof Christ. Brethren, I count not myself to have apprehended: but this\r\none thing I do, forgetting the things which are behind, and stretching\r\nforth to those that are before, I press toward the mark, for the prize\r\nof the high calling in Christ Jesus.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_255\" id=\"FNanchor_255\">[255]</a> And yet he reckons himself\r\nperfect, because he has been emancipated from his former life, and\r\nstrives after the better life, not as perfect in knowledge, but as\r\naspiring after perfection. Wherefore also he adds, “As many of us as\r\nare perfect, are thus minded,”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_256\" id=\"FNanchor_256\">[256]</a> manifestly describing perfection as\r\nthe renunciation of sin, and regeneration into the faith of the only\r\nperfect One, and forgetting our former sins.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","THE INSTRUCTOR.","BOOK I.","CHAPTER VI. THE NAME CHILDREN DOES NOT IMPLY INSTRUCTION IN ELEMENTARY PRINCIPLES."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_253","paragraph_id":"pg71937-paragraph-268"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"2ff56374f4dd6e890994d67a61918d0c0204744358a7b9197859e2986a9cf578","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1867,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"DEU","chapter":32,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Deut. xxxii. 13","verse":13,"verse_end":13}],"headings":[],"id":"pg71937-Footnote_253","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_253","source_ebook":71937,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_253\" id=\"Footnote_253\">[253]</a> Deut. xxxii. 13, 14.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"8e5c5bc39922dbad2626ac7651c2eb2e3d94cdcbd721f781e9792143ebb1cd03","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/71937/pg71937-images.html#Footnote_253","text_sha256":"edd81d30390817704ee42d8cc34e05703762df3caf4d7249ecf2ce2d6984944e","verified":false,"work_id":null}