{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>He knows accurately the declaration, “Unless ye hate father and\r\nmother, and besides your own life, and unless ye bear the sign [of\r\nthe cross].”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1274\" id=\"FNanchor_1274\">[1274]</a> For he hates the inordinate affections of the\r\nflesh, which possess the powerful spell of pleasure; and entertains\r\na noble contempt for all that belongs to the creation and nutriment\r\nof the flesh. He also withstands the corporeal<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1275\" id=\"FNanchor_1275\">[1275]</a> soul, putting a\r\nbridle-bit on the restive irrational spirit: “For the flesh lusteth\r\nagainst the Spirit.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1276\" id=\"FNanchor_1276\">[1276]</a> And “to bear the sign of [the cross]” is to\r\nbear about death, by taking farewell of all things while still alive;<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_465\">[465]</span>\r\nsince there is not equal love in “having sown the flesh,”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1277\" id=\"FNanchor_1277\">[1277]</a> and in\r\nhaving formed the soul for knowledge.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK VII.","CHAPTER XII. THE TRUE GNOSTIC IS BENEFICENT, CONTINENT, AND DESPISES WORLDLY THINGS."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_1277","paragraph_id":"pg73020-paragraph-1108"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"06f8ca33eca79da39d21ba37f910866cdbf8599662c4365dd711fcb4c1b27855","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"GAL","chapter":6,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Gal. vi. 8","verse":8,"verse_end":8}],"headings":[],"id":"pg73020-Footnote_1277","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_1277","source_ebook":73020,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_1277\" id=\"Footnote_1277\">[1277]</a> In allusion to Gal. vi. 8, where, however, the apostle\r\nspeaks of sowing to the flesh.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"c35077683d75abe553cc6ef5d3ef5a1a978f07dfbcf4bad5c3d56302ad03dc19","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_1277","text_sha256":"004805966948e30200500f95c36f1ab202fa112635f1fb0e0ef208c27a7831f6","verified":false,"work_id":null}