{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>It were indeed ridiculous, as the philosophers themselves say, for\r\nman, the plaything<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1225\" id=\"FNanchor_1225\">[1225]</a> of God, to make God, and for God to be the\r\nplaything<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1226\" id=\"FNanchor_1226\">[1226]</a> of art; since what is made is similar and the same to\r\nthat of which it is made, as that which is made of ivory is ivory,\r\nand that which is made of gold golden. Now the images and temples\r\nconstructed by mechanics are made of inert matter; so that they too\r\nare inert, and material, and profane; and if you perfect the art, they\r\npartake of mechanical coarseness. Works of art cannot then be sacred\r\nand divine.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK VII.","CHAPTER V. THE HOLY SOUL A MORE EXCELLENT TEMPLE THAN ANY EDIFICE BUILT BY MAN."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_1226","paragraph_id":"pg73020-paragraph-974"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"cff32beafa12cb0eca0c3715f9740f27efd707f120f8d250395d44ca34f017f7","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_1226","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_1226","source_ebook":73020,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_1226\" id=\"Footnote_1226\">[1226]</a> So Sylburgius, who, instead of παιδιᾶς τέχνης of the\r\ntext, reads παιδιὰν τέχνης.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"c35077683d75abe553cc6ef5d3ef5a1a978f07dfbcf4bad5c3d56302ad03dc19","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_1226","text_sha256":"ee743f71a32c31f73fe25dc305bb6b3317c6ddfdb768aab70e34dd9b317bc506","verified":false,"work_id":null}