{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"drop-cap p-left\">The Lord ministers all good and all help, both as man and as God: as\r\nGod, forgiving our sins; and as man, training us not to sin. Man is\r\ntherefore justly dear to God, since he is His workmanship. The other\r\nworks of creation He made by the word of command alone, but man He\r\nframed by Himself, by His own hand, and breathed into him what was\r\npeculiar to Himself. What, then, was fashioned by Him, and after His\r\nlikeness, either was created by God Himself as being desirable on its\r\nown account, or was formed as being desirable on account of something\r\nelse. If, then, man is an object desirable for itself, then He who is\r\ngood loved what is good, and the lovecharm is within even in man, and\r\nis that very thing which is called the inspiration [or breath] of God;\r\nbut if man was a desirable object on account of something else, God had\r\nno other reason for creating him, than that unless he came into being,\r\nit was not possible for God to be a good Creator, or for man to arrive\r\nat the knowledge of God. For God would not have accomplished that on\r\naccount of which man was created otherwise than by the creation of man;\r\nand what hidden power in willing God possessed, He carried fully out\r\nby the forth-putting of His might externally in the act of creating,\r\nreceiving from man what He made man;<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_166\" id=\"FNanchor_166\">[166]</a> and<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_119\">[119]</span> whom He had He saw, and\r\nwhat He wished that came to pass; and there is nothing which God cannot\r\ndo. Man, then, whom God made, is desirable for himself, and that which\r\nis desirable on his account is allied to him to whom it is desirable on\r\nhis account; and this, too, is acceptable and liked.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","THE INSTRUCTOR.","BOOK I.","CHAPTER III. THE PHILANTHROPY OF THE INSTRUCTOR."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_166","paragraph_id":"pg71937-paragraph-234"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"5c526ccc0583f09c31a83e78b8f969d6705d56ad79e871186e0cb1087b0d8855","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_166","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_166","source_ebook":71937,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_166\" id=\"Footnote_166\">[166]</a> Bishop Kaye (<i>Some Account of the Writings and\r\nOpinions of Clement of Alexandria</i>, p. 48) translates, “receiving\r\nfrom man that which made man (that on account of which man was made).”\r\nBut it seems more likely that Clement refers to the ideal man in the\r\ndivine mind, whom he identifies elsewhere with the Logos, the ἅνθρωπος\r\nὰπαθής, of whom man was the image. The reader will notice that Clement\r\nspeaks of man as existing in the divine mind before his creation, and\r\ncreation is represented by God’s <i>seeing</i> what He had previously\r\nwithin Him merely as a hidden power.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"8e5c5bc39922dbad2626ac7651c2eb2e3d94cdcbd721f781e9792143ebb1cd03","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/71937/pg71937-images.html#Footnote_166","text_sha256":"0e27c31dcf6aea0b241cc916fc0413e1937fdd682ee9ee8bf7ebffda52b04ff8","verified":false,"work_id":null}