{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Both must therefore test themselves: the one, if he is qualified to\r\nspeak and leave behind him written records; the other, if he is in a\r\nright state to hear and read: as also some in the dispensation of the\r\nEucharist, according to custom, enjoin that each one of the people\r\nindividually should take his part. One’s own conscience is best for\r\nchoosing accurately or shunning. And its firm foundation is a right\r\nlife, with suitable instruction. But the imitation of those who<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_352\">[352]</span>\r\nhave already been tested, and who have led correct lives, is most\r\nexcellent for the understanding and practice of the commandments.\r\n“So that whosoever shall eat the bread and drink the cup of the Lord\r\nunworthily, shall be guilty of the body and blood of the Lord. But\r\nlet a man examine himself, and so let him eat of the bread and drink\r\nof the cup.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_813\" id=\"FNanchor_813\">[813]</a> It therefore follows, that every one of those who\r\nundertake to promote the good of their neighbours, ought to consider\r\nwhether he has betaken himself to teaching rashly and out of rivalry\r\nto any; if his communication of the word is out of vainglory; if the\r\nonly reward he reaps is the salvation of those who hear, and if he\r\nspeaks not in order to win favour: if so, he who speaks by writings\r\nescapes the reproach of mercenary motives. “For neither at any time\r\nused we flattering words, as ye know,” says the apostle, “nor a cloak\r\nof covetousness. God is witness. Nor of men sought we glory, neither\r\nof you, nor yet of others, when we might have been burdensome as the\r\napostles of Christ. But we were gentle among you, even as a nurse\r\ncherisheth her children.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_814\" id=\"FNanchor_814\">[814]</a></p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","THE MISCELLANIES.","BOOK I.","CHAPTER I. PREFACE—THE AUTHOR’S OBJECT—THE UTILITY OF WRITTEN COMPOSITIONS."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_813","paragraph_id":"pg71937-paragraph-658"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"3db29b4af856e8ad35e9614a1ac3728fdce4143cba377580a4a22fb8d7986231","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1867,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"1CO","chapter":11,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"1 Cor. xi. 27","verse":27,"verse_end":27}],"headings":[],"id":"pg71937-Footnote_813","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 1867 English translation; translator died 1875. Electronic transcription subject to Project Gutenberg reuse terms.","source_anchor":"Footnote_813","source_ebook":71937,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_813\" id=\"Footnote_813\">[813]</a> 1 Cor. xi. 27, 28.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"8e5c5bc39922dbad2626ac7651c2eb2e3d94cdcbd721f781e9792143ebb1cd03","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/71937/pg71937-images.html#Footnote_813","text_sha256":"791b82d7c41685db7a2fe935d6679457caf5aeb66024eb3eddfa41f3919cdf2b","verified":false,"work_id":null}