{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>For he who hopes, as he who believes, sees intellectual objects and\r\nfuture things with the mind. If, then, we affirm that aught is just,\r\nand affirm it to be good, and we also say that truth is something, yet\r\nwe have never seen any of such objects with our eyes, but with our mind\r\nalone. Now the Word of God says, “I am the truth.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_725\" id=\"FNanchor_725\">[725]</a> The Word is\r\nthen to be contemplated by the mind. “Do you aver,” it was said,<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_726\" id=\"FNanchor_726\">[726]</a><span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_230\">[230]</span>\r\n“that there are any true philosophers?” “Yes,” said I, “those who love\r\nto contemplate the truth.” In the <i>Phædrus</i> also, Plato, speaking\r\nof the truth, shows it as an idea. Now an idea is a conception of God;\r\nand this the barbarians have termed the Word of God. The words are\r\nas follow: “For one must then dare to speak the truth, especially in\r\nspeaking of the truth. For the essence of the soul, being colourless,\r\nformless, and intangible, is visible only to God,<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_727\" id=\"FNanchor_727\">[727]</a> its guide.”\r\nNow the Word issuing forth was the cause of creation; then also he\r\ngenerated himself, “when the Word had become flesh,”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_728\" id=\"FNanchor_728\">[728]</a> that He\r\nmight be seen. The righteous man will seek the discovery that flows\r\nfrom love, to which if he hastes he prospers. For it is said, “To\r\nhim that knocketh, it shall be opened: ask, and it shall be given to\r\nyou.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_729\" id=\"FNanchor_729\">[729]</a> “For the violent that storm the kingdom”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_730\" id=\"FNanchor_730\">[730]</a> are not so in\r\ndisputatious speeches; but by continuance in a right life and unceasing\r\nprayers, are said “to take it by force,” wiping away the blots left by\r\ntheir previous sins.</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_730","paragraph_id":"pg73020-paragraph-319"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"f0620e981d5124ef4bab6f13dbaa108b09b5650ca085594059ab905bfcf4697b","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":11,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Matt. xi. 12","verse":12,"verse_end":12}],"headings":[],"id":"pg73020-Footnote_730","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_730","source_ebook":73020,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_730\" id=\"Footnote_730\">[730]</a> Matt. xi. 12.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"c35077683d75abe553cc6ef5d3ef5a1a978f07dfbcf4bad5c3d56302ad03dc19","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_730","text_sha256":"5fd15cbec9c567fa0ead87dd6dd92ada042a6c75ce065ca1ced6a65161ead849","verified":false,"work_id":null}