{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"drop-cap p-left\">Accordingly, before the advent of the Lord, philosophy was necessary to\r\nthe Greeks for righteousness. And now it becomes conducive to piety;\r\nbeing a kind of preparatory training to those who attain to faith\r\nthrough demonstration. “For thy foot,” it is said, “will not stumble,\r\nif thou refer what is good, whether belonging to the Greeks or to us,\r\nto Providence.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_847\" id=\"FNanchor_847\">[847]</a> For God is the cause of all good things; but of\r\nsome primarily, as of the Old and the New Testament; and of others\r\nby consequence, as philosophy. Perchance, too, philosophy was given\r\nto the Greeks directly and primarily, till the Lord should call the\r\nGreeks. For this was a schoolmaster to bring “the Hellenic mind,” as\r\nthe law, the Hebrews, “to Christ.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_848\" id=\"FNanchor_848\">[848]</a> Philosophy, therefore, was a\r\npreparation, paving the way for him who is perfected in Christ.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","THE MISCELLANIES.","BOOK I.","CHAPTER V. PHILOSOPHY THE HANDMAID OF THEOLOGY"],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_848","paragraph_id":"pg71937-paragraph-687"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"c78b4315134fa9edfdbcb378b0a5c6f4bb8f67c3c3b4ef0af9bc8e1a8230047f","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1867,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"GAL","chapter":3,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Gal. iii. 24","verse":24,"verse_end":24}],"headings":[],"id":"pg71937-Footnote_848","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_848","source_ebook":71937,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_848\" id=\"Footnote_848\">[848]</a> Gal. iii. 24.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"8e5c5bc39922dbad2626ac7651c2eb2e3d94cdcbd721f781e9792143ebb1cd03","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/71937/pg71937-images.html#Footnote_848","text_sha256":"9b9ae4ec080c93edad73ee8e50ac27c0afac4afc0b217b9d0a0f865099fd4f7a","verified":false,"work_id":null}