{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>The liars, then, in reality are not those who for the sake of the\r\nscheme of salvation conform, nor those who err in minute points, but\r\nthose who are wrong in essentials, and reject the Lord, and as far as\r\nin them lies deprive the Lord of the true teaching; who do not quote\r\nor deliver the Scriptures in a manner worthy of God and of the Lord;\r\nfor the deposit rendered to God, according to the teaching of the Lord\r\nby His apostles, is the understanding and the practice of the godly\r\ntradition. “And what ye hear in the ear”—that is, in a hidden manner,\r\nand in a mystery (for such things are figuratively said to be spoken\r\nin the ear)—“proclaim,” He says, “on the house-tops,” understanding\r\nthem sublimely, and delivering them in a lofty strain, and according\r\nto the canon of the truth explaining the Scriptures; for neither\r\nprophecy nor the Saviour Himself announced the divine mysteries simply\r\nso as to be easily apprehended by all and sundry, but expressed them\r\nin parables. The apostles accordingly say of the Lord, that “He spake\r\nall things in parables, and without a parable spake He nothing unto\r\nthem;”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1129\" id=\"FNanchor_1129\">[1129]</a> and if “all things were made by Him, and without Him was\r\nnot anything made that was made,”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1130\" id=\"FNanchor_1130\">[1130]</a> consequently also prophecy\r\nand the law were by Him, and were spoken by Him in parables. “But\r\nall things are right,” says the Scripture,<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1131\" id=\"FNanchor_1131\">[1131]</a> “before those who\r\nunderstand,” that is, those who receive and observe, according to the\r\necclesiastical rule, the exposition of the Scriptures explained by Him;\r\nand the ecclesiastical rule is the concord and harmony of<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_378\">[378]</span> the law\r\nand the prophets in the covenant delivered at the coming of the Lord.\r\nKnowledge is then followed by practical wisdom, and practical wisdom\r\nby self-control: for it may be said that practical wisdom is divine\r\nknowledge, and exists in those who are deified; but that self-control\r\nis mortal, and subsists in those who philosophize, and are not yet\r\nwise. But if virtue is divine, so is also the knowledge of it; while\r\nself-control is a sort of imperfect wisdom which aspires after wisdom,\r\nand exerts itself laboriously, and is not contemplative. As certainly\r\nrighteousness, being human, is, as being a common thing, subordinate to\r\nholiness, which subsists through the divine righteousness;<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1132\" id=\"FNanchor_1132\">[1132]</a> for\r\nthe righteousness of the perfect man does not rest on civil contracts,\r\nor on the prohibition of law, but flows from his own spontaneous action\r\nand his love to God.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK VI.","CHAPTER XV. DIFFERENT DEGREES OF KNOWLEDGE.","Philosophy and heresies, aids in discovering the truth."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_1130","paragraph_id":"pg73020-paragraph-820"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"099d349c171764d6b2b79a99106de6066747fe321622860d35f8406ee1d0da7d","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"JHN","chapter":1,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"John i. 3","verse":3,"verse_end":3}],"headings":[],"id":"pg73020-Footnote_1130","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_1130","source_ebook":73020,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_1130\" id=\"Footnote_1130\">[1130]</a> John i. 3.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"c35077683d75abe553cc6ef5d3ef5a1a978f07dfbcf4bad5c3d56302ad03dc19","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_1130","text_sha256":"a2b5b8f86ab2f22d26fd27b659591c10f0904c030a367b373487888b6c33f5d8","verified":false,"work_id":null}