{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>The Instructor will not then bring us to public spectacles; nor\r\ninappropriately might one call the racecourse and the theatre “the\r\nseat of plagues;”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_738\" id=\"FNanchor_738\">[738]</a> for there is evil counsel as against the\r\nJust One,<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_739\" id=\"FNanchor_739\">[739]</a> and therefore the assembly against Him is execrated.\r\nThese assemblies, indeed, are full of<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_327\">[327]</span> confusion<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_740\" id=\"FNanchor_740\">[740]</a> and iniquity;\r\nand these pretexts for assembling are the cause of disorder—men\r\nand women assembling promiscuously for the sight of one another. In\r\nthis respect the assembly has already shown itself bad: for when the\r\neye is lascivious,<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_741\" id=\"FNanchor_741\">[741]</a> the desires grow warm; and the eyes that\r\nare accustomed to look impudently at one’s neighbours during the\r\nleisure granted to them, inflame the amatory desires. Let spectacles,\r\ntherefore, and plays that are full of scurrility and of abundant\r\ngossip, be forbidden. For what base action is it that is not exhibited\r\nin the theatres? And what shameless saying is it that is not brought\r\nforward by the buffoons? And those who enjoy the evil that is in them,\r\nstamp the clear images of it at home. And, on the other hand, those\r\nthat are proof against these things, and unimpressible, will never make\r\na stumble in regard to luxurious pleasures.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","THE INSTRUCTOR.","BOOK III.","CHAPTER XI. A COMPENDIOUS VIEW OF THE CHRISTIAN LIFE."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_740","paragraph_id":"pg71937-paragraph-603"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"1c7c7382389b5b658b1a2d1abc33c5b57056cd173891228185d5a85fda28d5d6","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_740","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_740","source_ebook":71937,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_740\" id=\"Footnote_740\">[740]</a> ἀναμιξίας adopted instead of the reading ἀμιξίας, which\r\nis plainly wrong.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"8e5c5bc39922dbad2626ac7651c2eb2e3d94cdcbd721f781e9792143ebb1cd03","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/71937/pg71937-images.html#Footnote_740","text_sha256":"818b5e9891609e20f442320c33e2f9855b441b174333f597638c65dbbcec0d59","verified":false,"work_id":null}