{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>For production is twofold—of things procreated, and of<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_210\">[210]</span> things that\r\ngrow. And manliness in man, who is subject to perturbation, as they\r\nsay, makes him who partakes of it essentially fearless and invincible;\r\nand anger is the mind’s satellite in patience, and endurance, and the\r\nlike; and self-constraint and salutary sense are set over desire. But\r\nGod is impassible, free of anger, destitute of desire. And He is not\r\nfree of fear, in the sense of avoiding what is terrible; or temperate,\r\nin the sense of having command of desires. For neither can the nature\r\nof God fall in with anything terrible, nor does God flee fear; just as\r\nHe will not feel desire, so as to rule over desires. Accordingly that\r\nPythagorean saying was mystically uttered respecting us, “that man\r\nought to become one;” for the high priest himself is one, God being one\r\nin the immutable state of the perpetual flow<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_661\" id=\"FNanchor_661\">[661]</a> of good things. Now\r\nthe Saviour has taken away wrath in and with lust, wrath being lust\r\nof vengeance. For universally liability to feeling belongs to every\r\nkind of desire; and man, when deified purely into a passionless state,\r\nbecomes a unit. As, then, those, who at sea are held by an anchor, pull\r\nat the anchor, but do not drag it to them, but drag themselves to the\r\nanchor; so those who, according to the gnostic life, draw God towards\r\nthem, imperceptibly bring themselves to God: for he who reverences God,\r\nreverences himself. In the contemplative life, then, one in worshipping\r\nGod attends to himself, and through his own spotless purification\r\nbeholds the holy God holily; for self-control, being present, surveying\r\nand contemplating itself uninterruptedly, is as far as possible\r\nassimilated to God.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK IV.","CHAPTER XXIII. THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_661","paragraph_id":"pg73020-paragraph-284"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"efd24928d6cdf81330b9ba263ed06a01d2c7c90ba560923159a20ee97bab50c9","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_661","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_661","source_ebook":73020,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_661\" id=\"Footnote_661\">[661]</a> θεὶν... Θεός.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"c35077683d75abe553cc6ef5d3ef5a1a978f07dfbcf4bad5c3d56302ad03dc19","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_661","text_sha256":"97cc6cb74048871b1591bacdb9681406db21902f53567025cf8c9f85d9e36b20","verified":false,"work_id":null}