{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>So also we have received mind, that we may know what we do. And the\r\nmaxim “Know thyself” means here to know for what we are born. And we\r\nare born to obey the commandments, if we choose to be willing to be\r\nsaved. Such is the Nemesis,<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1217\" id=\"FNanchor_1217\">[1217]</a> through which there is no escaping\r\nfrom God. Man’s duty, then, is obedience to God, who has proclaimed\r\nsalvation manifold by the commandments. And confession is thanksgiving.\r\nFor the beneficent first begins to do good. And he who on fitting\r\nconsiderations readily receives and keeps the commandments, is faithful\r\n(πιστός); and he who by love requites benefits as far as he is able,\r\nis already a friend. One recompense on the part of men is of paramount\r\nimportance—the doing of what is pleasing to God. As being His own\r\nproduction, and a result akin to Himself, the Teacher and Saviour\r\nreceives acts of assistance and of improvement on the part of men as a\r\npersonal favour and honour; as also He regards the injuries inflicted\r\non those who believe on Him as ingratitude and dishonour to Himself.\r\nFor what other dishonour can touch God? Wherefore it is impossible to\r\nrender a recompense at all equivalent to the boon received from the\r\nLord.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK VII.","CHAPTER III. THE GNOSTIC AIMS AT THE NEAREST LIKENESS POSSIBLE TO GOD AND HIS SON."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_1217","paragraph_id":"pg73020-paragraph-951"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"38b855ff3e4a9be4dc2a8cccec3d4975b4eeb92a265b9beb1523ab21b4ce4b58","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_1217","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_1217","source_ebook":73020,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_1217\" id=\"Footnote_1217\">[1217]</a> Ἀδράστεια, a name given to Nemesis, said to be from an\r\naltar erected to her by Adrastus; but as used here, and when employed\r\nas an adjective qualifying Nemesis, it has reference to διδράσκω.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"c35077683d75abe553cc6ef5d3ef5a1a978f07dfbcf4bad5c3d56302ad03dc19","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_1217","text_sha256":"f36d83de97b9a59e9e5dc9f2174e90f7a540f7689ec8cb3082543aeb73b6d3a7","verified":false,"work_id":null}