{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>How, then, has he any more need of fortitude, who is not in the midst\r\nof dangers, being not present, but already wholly with the object of\r\nlove? And what necessity for self-restraint to him who has not need\r\nof it? For to have such desires, as require self-restraint in order\r\nto their control, is characteristic of one who is not yet pure, but\r\nsubject to passion. Now, fortitude is assumed by reason of fear and\r\ncowardice. For it were no longer seemly that the friend of God, whom\r\n“God hath fore-ordained before the foundation of the world”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1024\" id=\"FNanchor_1024\">[1024]</a> to\r\nbe enrolled in the highest “adoption,” should fall into pleasures or\r\nfears, and be occupied in the repression of the passions. For I venture\r\nto assert, that as he is predestinated through what he shall do, and\r\nwhat he shall obtain, so also has he predestinated himself by reason\r\nof what he knew and whom he loved; not having the future indistinct,\r\nas the multitude live, conjecturing it, but having grasped by gnostic\r\nfaith what is hidden from others. And through love, the future is for\r\nhim already present. For he has believed, through prophecy and the\r\nadvent, on God who lies not. And what he believes he possesses, and\r\nkeeps hold of the promise. And He who hath promised is truth. And\r\nthrough the trustworthiness of Him who has promised, he has firmly laid\r\nhold of the end of the promise by knowledge. And he, who knows the sure\r\ncomprehension of the future which there is<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_348\">[348]</span> in the circumstances, in\r\nwhich he is placed, by love goes to meet the future. So he, that is\r\npersuaded that he will obtain the things that are really good, will\r\nnot pray to obtain what is here, but that he may always cling to the\r\nfaith which hits the mark and succeeds. And besides, he will pray that\r\nas many as possible may become like him, to the glory of God, which is\r\nperfected through knowledge. For he who is made like the Saviour is\r\nalso devoted to saving; performing unerringly the commandments as far\r\nas the human nature may admit of the image. And this is to worship God\r\nby deeds and knowledge of the true righteousness. The Lord will not\r\nwait for the voice of this man in prayer. “Ask,” He says, “and I will\r\ndo it; think, and I will give.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1025\" id=\"FNanchor_1025\">[1025]</a></p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK VI.","CHAPTER IX. THE GNOSTIC FREE OF ALL PERTURBATIONS OF THE SOUL."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_1025","paragraph_id":"pg73020-paragraph-744"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"dc32d7ea70f4ad91eed378c0955f923f3806fc0e5c0e9ed03148f0021d41f69d","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_1025","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_1025","source_ebook":73020,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_1025\" id=\"Footnote_1025\">[1025]</a> Quoted afterwards, p. 362, and <i>Stromata</i>, book\r\nvii. p. 743, Paris ed.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"c35077683d75abe553cc6ef5d3ef5a1a978f07dfbcf4bad5c3d56302ad03dc19","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_1025","text_sha256":"9cdf78a79f523af4448ad2ebe8f66dd1700686ef500bc677a583dd33bbbe705d","verified":false,"work_id":null}