{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Those, then, who run down created existence and vilify the body are\r\nwrong; not considering that the frame of man was formed erect for the\r\ncontemplation of heaven, and that the organization of the senses tends\r\nto knowledge; and that the members and parts are arranged for good, not\r\nfor pleasure. Whence this abode becomes receptive of the soul which is\r\nmost precious to God; and is dignified with the Holy Spirit through\r\nthe sanctification of soul and body, perfected with the perfection\r\nof the Saviour. And the succession of the three virtues is found in\r\nthe Gnostic, who morally, physically, and logically occupies himself\r\nwith God. For wisdom is the knowledge of things divine and human; and\r\nrighteousness is the concord of the parts of the soul; and holiness\r\nis the service of God. But if one were to say that he disparaged the\r\nflesh, and generation on account of it, by quoting Isaiah, who says,\r\n“All flesh is grass, and all the glory of man as the flower of grass:<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_216\">[216]</span>\r\nthe grass is withered, and the flower has fallen; but the word of the\r\nLord endureth for ever;”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_677\" id=\"FNanchor_677\">[677]</a> let him hear the Spirit interpreting\r\nthe matter in question by Jeremiah, “And I scattered them like dry\r\nsticks, that are made to fly by the wind into the desert. This is the\r\nlot and portion of your disobedience, saith the Lord. As thou hast\r\nforgotten me, and hast trusted in lies, so will I discover thy hinder\r\nparts to thy face; and thy disgrace shall be seen, thy adultery, and\r\nthy neighing,” and so on.<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_678\" id=\"FNanchor_678\">[678]</a> For “the flower of grass,” and “walking\r\nafter the flesh,” and “being carnal,” according to the apostle, are\r\nthose who are in their sins. The soul of man is confessedly the better\r\npart of man, and the body the inferior. But neither is the soul good by\r\nnature, nor, on the other hand, is the body bad by nature. Nor is that\r\nwhich is not good straightway bad. For there are things which occupy a\r\nmiddle place, and among them are things to be preferred, and things to\r\nbe rejected. The constitution of man, then, which has its place among\r\nthings of sense, was necessarily composed of things diverse, but not\r\nopposite—body and soul.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK IV.","CHAPTER XXVI. HOW THE PERFECT MAN TREATS THE BODY AND THE THINGS OF THE WORLD."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_677","paragraph_id":"pg73020-paragraph-295"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"04330e7f47d006081fefe8b542af39d5b2d463189b30b4b98410208cb8ab890a","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"ISA","chapter":40,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Isa. xl. 6–8","verse":6,"verse_end":8}],"headings":[],"id":"pg73020-Footnote_677","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_677","source_ebook":73020,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_677\" id=\"Footnote_677\">[677]</a> Isa. xl. 6–8.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"c35077683d75abe553cc6ef5d3ef5a1a978f07dfbcf4bad5c3d56302ad03dc19","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_677","text_sha256":"909effc09a2963f315fca5d79d92717ba8f3f41c1ecdd3a9b25fcef33de564d9","verified":false,"work_id":null}