{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"p-left\">The knowledge of ignorance is, then, the first lesson in\r\nwalking according to the Word. An ignorant man has sought, and having\r\nsought, he finds the teacher; and finding has believed, and believing\r\nhas hoped; and henceforward having loved, is assimilated to what was\r\nloved—endeavouring to be what he first loved. Such is the method\r\nSocrates shows Alcibiades, who thus questions: “Do you not think that\r\nI shall know about what is right otherwise?” “Yes, if you have found\r\nout.” “But you don’t think I have found out?” “Certainly, if you have\r\nsought.” “Then you don’t think that I have sought?” “Yes, if you think\r\nyou do not know.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_732\" id=\"FNanchor_732\">[732]</a><span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_231\">[231]</span> So with the lamps of the wise virgins, lighted\r\nat night in the great darkness of ignorance, which the Scripture\r\nsignified by “night.” Wise souls, pure as virgins, understanding\r\nthemselves to be situated amidst the ignorance of the world, kindle\r\nthe light, and rouse the mind, and illumine the darkness, and dispel\r\nignorance, and seek truth, and await the appearance of the Teacher.</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_732","paragraph_id":"pg73020-paragraph-321"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"4ff8d701afcc38f951cebe2313c3a340ba50c5353b567c6f97c83eac99fbab29","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_732","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_732","source_ebook":73020,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_732\" id=\"Footnote_732\">[732]</a> Plato, <i>Alcibiades</i>, book i.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"c35077683d75abe553cc6ef5d3ef5a1a978f07dfbcf4bad5c3d56302ad03dc19","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_732","text_sha256":"3bc8cdb04b6281ceb0dff90b39accab8a0c9f920a5c9acee6301d7b776edadb4","verified":false,"work_id":null}