{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Wherefore also man is said “to have been made in [God’s] image and\r\nlikeness.” For the image of God is the divine and royal Word, the\r\nimpassible man; and the image of the image is the human mind. And if\r\nyou wish to apprehend the likeness by another name, you will find it\r\nnamed in Moses, a divine correspondence. For he says, “Walk after the\r\nLord your God, and keep His commandments.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_843\" id=\"FNanchor_843\">[843]</a> And I reckon all the\r\nvirtuous, servants and followers of God. Hence the Stoics say that the\r\nend of philosophy is to live agreeably to nature; and Plato, likeness\r\nto God, as we have shown in the second Miscellany. And Zeno the Stoic,\r\nborrowing from Plato, and he from the Barbarian philosophy, says that\r\nall the good are friends of one another. For Socrates says in the\r\n<i>Phædrus</i>, “that it has not been ordained that the bad should be a\r\nfriend to the bad, nor the good be not a friend to the good;” as also\r\nhe showed sufficiently in the <i>Lysis</i>, that friendship is never\r\npreserved in wickedness and vice. And the Athenian stranger similarly\r\nsays, “that there is conduct pleasing and conformable to God, based\r\non one ancient ground-principle, That like loves like, provided it be\r\nwithin measure. But things beyond measure are congenial neither to\r\nwhat is within nor what is beyond measure. Now it is the case that\r\nGod is the measure to us of all things.” Then proceeding, Plato<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_844\" id=\"FNanchor_844\">[844]</a>\r\nadds: “For every good man is like every other good man; and so being\r\nlike to God, he is liked by every good man and by God.” At this point\r\nI have just recollected the following. In the end of the <i>Timæus</i>\r\nhe says: “You must necessarily assimilate that which perceives to that\r\nwhich is perceived, according to its original nature; and<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_278\">[278]</span> it is by so\r\nassimilating it that you attain to the end of the highest life proposed\r\nby the gods to men,<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_845\" id=\"FNanchor_845\">[845]</a> for the present or the future time.” For those\r\nhave equal power with these. He, who seeks, will not stop till he find;\r\nand having found, he will wonder; and wondering, he will reign; and\r\nreigning, he will rest. And what? Were not also those expressions of\r\nThales derived from these? The fact that God is glorified for ever,\r\nand that He is expressly called by us the Searcher of hearts, he\r\ninterprets. For Thales being asked, What is the divinity? said, What\r\nhas neither beginning nor end. And on another asking, “If a man could\r\nelude the knowledge of the Divine Being while doing aught?” said, “How\r\ncould he who cannot do so while thinking?”</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK V.","CHAPTER XIV. GREEK PLAGIARISMS FROM THE HEBREWS."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_845","paragraph_id":"pg73020-paragraph-434"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"66ac880ad201fbadf56b8a067714bd22477eb6b4b7b21637b54cd97965162085","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_845","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_845","source_ebook":73020,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_845\" id=\"Footnote_845\">[845]</a> The text has ἀνθρώπῳ; Plato and Eusebius, ἀνθρώπois.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"c35077683d75abe553cc6ef5d3ef5a1a978f07dfbcf4bad5c3d56302ad03dc19","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_845","text_sha256":"d1bdefb9911a1cd9999e1924471fab82c6e5788ab9200156a3f5685115118945","verified":false,"work_id":null}