{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>The blessed John, despising the locks of sheep as savouring of luxury,\r\nchose “camel’s hair,” and was clad in it, making himself an example of\r\nfrugality and simplicity of life. For he also “ate locusts and wild\r\nhoney,”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_602\" id=\"FNanchor_602\">[602]</a> sweet and spiritual fare; preparing, as he was, the lowly\r\nand chaste ways of the Lord. For how possibly could he have worn a\r\npurple robe, who turned away from the pomp of cities, and retired to\r\nthe solitude of the desert, to live in calmness with God, far from all\r\nfrivolous pursuits—from all false show of good—from all meanness?\r\nElias used a sheepskin mantle, and fastened the sheepskin with a\r\ngirdle made of hair.<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_603\" id=\"FNanchor_603\">[603]</a> And Esaias, another prophet, was naked and\r\nbarefooted,<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_604\" id=\"FNanchor_604\">[604]</a> and often was clad in sackcloth, the garb of humility.\r\nAnd if you call Jeremiah, he had only “a linen girdle.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_605\" id=\"FNanchor_605\">[605]</a></p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","THE INSTRUCTOR.","BOOK II.","CHAPTER XI. ON CLOTHES."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_603","paragraph_id":"pg71937-paragraph-451"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"76ece45af81f2a5ebb075aea46618f90a113654c4867ff36a9bb49f2b21adce3","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1867,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg71937-Footnote_603","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_603","source_ebook":71937,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_603\" id=\"Footnote_603\">[603]</a> 2 Chron. i. 8.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"8e5c5bc39922dbad2626ac7651c2eb2e3d94cdcbd721f781e9792143ebb1cd03","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/71937/pg71937-images.html#Footnote_603","text_sha256":"5d7312983fadad4a078da3f58aeaaa95cde5e6ec4d85140ee41645f56831c99a","verified":false,"work_id":null}