{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Those also who composed the <i>Persics</i> relate that in the uplands,\r\nin the country of the Magi, three mountains are situated on an extended\r\nplain, and that those who travel through the locality, on coming to the\r\nfirst mountain, hear a confused sound as of several myriads shouting,\r\nas if in battle array; and on reaching the middle one, they hear a\r\nclamour louder and more distinct; and at the end hear people singing\r\na pæan, as if victorious. And the cause, in my opinion, of the whole\r\nsound, is the smoothness and cavernous character of the localities; and\r\nthe air, entering in, being sent back and<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_323\">[323]</span> going to the same point,\r\nsounds with considerable force. Let these things be so. But it is\r\npossible for God Almighty, even without a medium, to produce a voice\r\nand vision through the ear, showing that His greatness has a natural\r\norder beyond what is customary, in order to the conversion of the\r\nhitherto unbelieving soul, and the reception of the commandment given.\r\nBut there being a cloud and a lofty mountain, how is it not possible\r\nto hear a different sound, the wind moving by the active cause?\r\nWherefore also the prophet says, “Ye heard the voice of words, and saw\r\nno similitude.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_958\" id=\"FNanchor_958\">[958]</a> You see how the Lord’s voice, the Word, without\r\nshape, the power of the Word, the luminous word of the Lord, the truth\r\nfrom heaven, from above, coming to the assembly of the church, wrought\r\nby the luminous immediate ministry.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK VI.","CHAPTER III. PLAGIARISM BY THE GREEKS OF THE MIRACLES RELATED IN THE SACRED BOOKS OF THE HEBREWS."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_958","paragraph_id":"pg73020-paragraph-697"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"5c722d541164caca4ed1537d26e57d972c15d8291cd02d5a6330f7dbf7bc7023","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"DEU","chapter":4,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Deut. iv. 12","verse":12,"verse_end":12}],"headings":[],"id":"pg73020-Footnote_958","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_958","source_ebook":73020,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_958\" id=\"Footnote_958\">[958]</a> Deut. iv. 12.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"c35077683d75abe553cc6ef5d3ef5a1a978f07dfbcf4bad5c3d56302ad03dc19","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_958","text_sha256":"c423bc6c336827e20b5b8cc7864382ec5493fd0a22ba8c516908ea6a84562e22","verified":false,"work_id":null}