{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>He knows accurately the declaration, “Unless ye hate father and\r\nmother, and besides your own life, and unless ye bear the sign [of\r\nthe cross].”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1274\" id=\"FNanchor_1274\">[1274]</a> For he hates the inordinate affections of the\r\nflesh, which possess the powerful spell of pleasure; and entertains\r\na noble contempt for all that belongs to the creation and nutriment\r\nof the flesh. He also withstands the corporeal<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1275\" id=\"FNanchor_1275\">[1275]</a> soul, putting a\r\nbridle-bit on the restive irrational spirit: “For the flesh lusteth\r\nagainst the Spirit.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1276\" id=\"FNanchor_1276\">[1276]</a> And “to bear the sign of [the cross]” is to\r\nbear about death, by taking farewell of all things while still alive;<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_465\">[465]</span>\r\nsince there is not equal love in “having sown the flesh,”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1277\" id=\"FNanchor_1277\">[1277]</a> and in\r\nhaving formed the soul for knowledge.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK VII.","CHAPTER XII. THE TRUE GNOSTIC IS BENEFICENT, CONTINENT, AND DESPISES WORLDLY THINGS."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_1275","paragraph_id":"pg73020-paragraph-1108"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"c4ad8ffe8e080ca6303e5b025722c7dc8afb452c1d8c6dbc343e3966b1ec6ba9","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_1275","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_1275","source_ebook":73020,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_1275\" id=\"Footnote_1275\">[1275]</a> <i>i.e.</i> The sentient soul, which he calls the\r\nirrational spirit, in contrast with the rational soul.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"c35077683d75abe553cc6ef5d3ef5a1a978f07dfbcf4bad5c3d56302ad03dc19","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_1275","text_sha256":"55abe046bd7760dc88365483b851ae03e6285ec0e93fa2ed73853c672522da44","verified":false,"work_id":null}