{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>The more, then, a man hastes to the end, the more truly venerable\r\nis he, having God alone as his senior, since He is the eternal aged\r\nOne, He who is older than all things. Prophecy has called him the\r\n“Ancient of days; and the hair of His head was as pure wool,” says\r\nthe prophet.<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_642\" id=\"FNanchor_642\">[642]</a> “And none other,” says the Lord, “can make the hair\r\nwhite or black.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_643\" id=\"FNanchor_643\">[643]</a> How, then, do these godless ones work in rivalry\r\nwith God, or rather violently oppose Him, when they transmute the hair\r\nmade white by Him? “The crown of old men is great experience,”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_644\" id=\"FNanchor_644\">[644]</a>\r\nsays Scripture; and the hoary hair of their countenance is the blossom\r\nof large experience. But these dishonour the reverence of age, the\r\nhead covered with grey hairs. It is not, it is not possible for him\r\nto show the soul true who has a fraudulent head. “But ye have not so\r\nlearned Christ; if so be that ye have heard Him, and have been taught\r\nby Him, as the truth is in Jesus: that ye put off, concerning the\r\nformer conversation, the old man (not the hoary man, but him that is)\r\ncorrupt according to deceitful lusts; and be renewed (not by dyeings\r\nand ornaments), but in the spirit of your mind; and put on the new man,\r\nwhich after God is created in righteousness and true holiness.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_645\" id=\"FNanchor_645\">[645]</a></p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","THE INSTRUCTOR.","BOOK III.","CHAPTER III. AGAINST MEN WHO EMBELLISH THEMSELVES."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_645","paragraph_id":"pg71937-paragraph-509"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"697b69abc2ec37bab8d1cc3f099297f8cec955bc53f77691933945da877fbb92","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1867,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"EPH","chapter":4,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Eph. iv. 20–24","verse":20,"verse_end":24}],"headings":[],"id":"pg71937-Footnote_645","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_645","source_ebook":71937,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_645\" id=\"Footnote_645\">[645]</a> Eph. iv. 20–24.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"8e5c5bc39922dbad2626ac7651c2eb2e3d94cdcbd721f781e9792143ebb1cd03","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/71937/pg71937-images.html#Footnote_645","text_sha256":"418d97f579d2db6a00ac5acddc57de3bbc1bd427e84f451bf698a592bb7e020e","verified":false,"work_id":null}