{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"p-left\">“For this is habitual to the wicked,” says Empedocles,\r\n“to wish to overbear what is true by disbelieving it.” And that our\r\ntenets are probable and worthy of belief, the Greeks shall know, the\r\npoint being more thoroughly investigated in what<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_232\">[232]</span> follows. For we are\r\ntaught what is like by what is like. For says Solomon, “Answer a fool\r\naccording to his folly.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_740\" id=\"FNanchor_740\">[740]</a> Wherefore also, to those that ask the\r\nwisdom that is with us, we are to hold out things suitable, that with\r\nthe greatest possible ease they may, through their own ideas, be likely\r\nto arrive at faith in the truth. For “I became all things to all men,\r\nthat I might gain all men.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_741\" id=\"FNanchor_741\">[741]</a> Since also “the rain” of the divine\r\ngrace is sent down “on the just and the unjust.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_742\" id=\"FNanchor_742\">[742]</a> “Is He the God of\r\nthe Jews only, and not also of the Gentiles? Yes, also of the Gentiles:\r\nif indeed He is one God,”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_743\" id=\"FNanchor_743\">[743]</a> exclaims the noble apostle.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK V.","CHAPTER III. THE OBJECTS OF FAITH AND HOPE PERCEIVED BY THE MIND ALONE."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_742","paragraph_id":"pg73020-paragraph-325"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"320323f3b81226c0fa71d2800860d6281bec9944b842f9826e1e90a3ef1f5722","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"MAT","chapter":5,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Matt. v. 45","verse":45,"verse_end":45}],"headings":[],"id":"pg73020-Footnote_742","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_742","source_ebook":73020,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_742\" id=\"Footnote_742\">[742]</a> Matt. v. 45.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"c35077683d75abe553cc6ef5d3ef5a1a978f07dfbcf4bad5c3d56302ad03dc19","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_742","text_sha256":"505e547fd2b13d7efe988f9d91a40a830c2b6f275e09b437e7eb2e889eec5198","verified":false,"work_id":null}