{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Wherefore Solomon also says, that before heaven, and earth, and all\r\nexistences, Wisdom had arisen in the Almighty; the participation of\r\nwhich—that which is by power, I mean, not that by essence—teaches a\r\nman to know by apprehension things divine and human. Having reached\r\nthis point, we must mention these things by the way; since the\r\ndiscourse has turned on the seventh and the eighth. For the eighth\r\nmay possibly turn out to be properly the seventh, and the seventh\r\nmanifestly the sixth, and the latter properly the Sabbath, and the\r\nseventh a day of work. For the creation of the world was concluded\r\nin six days. For the motion of the sun from solstice to solstice is\r\ncompleted in six months—in the course of which, at one time the\r\nleaves fall, and at another plants bud and seeds come to maturity.\r\nAnd they say that the embryo is perfected exactly in the sixth month,\r\nthat is, in one hundred and eighty days in addition to the two and a\r\nhalf, as Polybus the physician relates in his book <i>On the<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_387\">[387]</span> Eighth\r\nMonth</i>, and Aristotle the philosopher in his book <i>On Nature</i>.\r\nHence the Pythagoreans, as I think, reckon six the perfect number,\r\nfrom the creation of the world, according to the prophet, and call it\r\nMeseuthys<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1150\" id=\"FNanchor_1150\">[1150]</a> and Marriage, from its being the middle of the even\r\nnumbers, that is, of ten and two. For it is manifestly at an equal\r\ndistance from both.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK VI.","CHAPTER XVI. GNOSTIC EXPOSITION OF THE DECALOGUE.","The Fourth Commandment."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_1150","paragraph_id":"pg73020-paragraph-847"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"f975714e9e0c6c4908245d6ae4a534a4e38b5dd3b2f08351a756885d72fe1fd5","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_1150","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_1150","source_ebook":73020,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_1150\" id=\"Footnote_1150\">[1150]</a> μεσευθυς μέσος and εὐθύς, between the even ones,\r\napplied by the Pythagoreans to 6, a half-way between 2 and 10, the\r\nfirst and the last even numbers of the dinary scale.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"c35077683d75abe553cc6ef5d3ef5a1a978f07dfbcf4bad5c3d56302ad03dc19","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_1150","text_sha256":"deb11dc30adabea86621ce807f84b65aee67b60ea62c69621a76471cb99e4228","verified":false,"work_id":null}