{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Further, the Barbarian philosophy recognises good as alone excellent,\r\nand virtue as sufficient for happiness, when it says, “Behold, I\r\nhave set before your eyes good and evil, life and death, that ye may\r\nchoose life.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_846\" id=\"FNanchor_846\">[846]</a> For it calls good, “life,” and the choice of it\r\nexcellent, and the choice of the opposite “evil.” And the end of good\r\nand of life is to become a lover of God: “For this is thy life and\r\nlength of days,” to love that which tends to the truth. And these\r\npoints are yet clearer. For the Saviour, in enjoining to love God and\r\nour neighbour, says, “that on these two commandments hang the whole\r\nlaw and the prophets.” Such are the tenets promulgated by the Stoics;\r\nand before these, by Socrates, in the <i>Phædrus</i>, who prays, “O\r\nPan, and ye other gods, give me to be beautiful within.” And in the\r\n<i>Theætetus</i> he says expressly, “For he that speaks well (καλῶς)\r\nis both beautiful and good.” And in the <i>Protagoras</i> he avers to\r\nthe companions of Protagoras that he has met in with one more beautiful\r\nthan Alcibiades, if indeed that which is wisest is most beautiful.\r\nFor he said that virtue was the soul’s beauty, and, on the contrary,\r\nthat vice was the soul’s deformity. Accordingly, Antipatrus the Stoic,\r\nwho composed three books on the point, “That, according to Plato,\r\nonly the beautiful is good,” shows that, according to him, virtue is\r\nsufficient for happiness; and adduces several<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_279\">[279]</span> other dogmas agreeing\r\nwith the Stoics. And by Aristobulus, who lived in the time of Ptolemy\r\nPhiladelphus, who is mentioned by the composer of the epitome of the\r\nbooks of the Maccabees, there were abundant books to show that the\r\nPeripatetic philosophy was derived from the law of Moses and from the\r\nother prophets. Let such be the case.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK V.","CHAPTER XIV. GREEK PLAGIARISMS FROM THE HEBREWS."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_846","paragraph_id":"pg73020-paragraph-435"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"3e2b52428d6797e95cb82327ec216aadb5f4c7ae19f6bcc4d4570c58ced0586b","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":30,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Deut. xxx. 15","verse":15,"verse_end":15}],"headings":[],"id":"pg73020-Footnote_846","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_846","source_ebook":73020,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_846\" id=\"Footnote_846\">[846]</a> Deut. xxx. 15, 19, 20.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"c35077683d75abe553cc6ef5d3ef5a1a978f07dfbcf4bad5c3d56302ad03dc19","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_846","text_sha256":"8c649dac62c27fee263edbe18c8571f7bca0d6ae30e519aa7d6f0c4e66044440","verified":false,"work_id":null}