{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Through the knowledge, then, as appears, of a bad and good life is the\r\nGnostic saved, understanding and executing “more than the scribes and\r\nPharisees.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1112\" id=\"FNanchor_1112\">[1112]</a> “Exert thyself,<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_372\">[372]</span> and prosper, and reign,” writes\r\nDavid, “because of truth, and meekness, and righteousness; and thy\r\nright hand shall guide thee marvellously,”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1113\" id=\"FNanchor_1113\">[1113]</a> that is, the Lord.\r\n“Who then is the wise? and he shall understand these things. Prudent?\r\nand he shall know them. For the ways of the Lord are right,”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1114\" id=\"FNanchor_1114\">[1114]</a>\r\nsays the prophet, showing that the Gnostic alone is able to understand\r\nand explain the things spoken by the Spirit obscurely. “And he who\r\nunderstands in that time shall hold his peace,”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1115\" id=\"FNanchor_1115\">[1115]</a> says the\r\nScripture, plainly in the way of declaring them to the unworthy.\r\nFor the Lord says, “He that hath ears to hear, let him hear,”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1116\" id=\"FNanchor_1116\">[1116]</a>\r\ndeclaring that hearing and understanding belong not to all. To the\r\npoint David writes: “Dark water is in the clouds of the skies. At the\r\ngleam before Him the clouds passed, hail and coals of fire;”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1117\" id=\"FNanchor_1117\">[1117]</a>\r\nshowing that the holy words are hidden. He intimates that transparent\r\nand resplendent to the Gnostics, like the innocuous hail, they are\r\nsent down from God; but that they are dark to the multitude, like\r\nextinguished coals out of the fire, which, unless kindled and set on\r\nfire, will not give forth fire or light. “The Lord, therefore,” it is\r\nsaid, “gives me the tongue of instruction, so as to know in season when\r\nit is requisite to speak a word;”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1118\" id=\"FNanchor_1118\">[1118]</a> not in the way of testimony\r\nalone, but also in the way of question and answer. “And the instruction\r\nof the Lord opens my mouth.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1119\" id=\"FNanchor_1119\">[1119]</a> It is the prerogative of the\r\nGnostic, then, to know how to make use of speech, and when, and how,\r\nand to whom. And already the apostle, by saying, “After the rudiments\r\nof the world, and not after Christ,”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1120\" id=\"FNanchor_1120\">[1120]</a> makes the asseveration that\r\nthe Hellenic teaching is elementary, and that of Christ perfect, as we\r\nhave already intimated before.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK VI.","CHAPTER XV. DIFFERENT DEGREES OF KNOWLEDGE."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_1117","paragraph_id":"pg73020-paragraph-808"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"303cef95b98339dce507ac7d04788e108b21cc0b884dc5873dd7d95831da2f86","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"PSA","chapter":18,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Ps. xviii. 11","verse":11,"verse_end":11}],"headings":[],"id":"pg73020-Footnote_1117","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_1117","source_ebook":73020,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_1117\" id=\"Footnote_1117\">[1117]</a> Ps. xviii. 11, 12.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"c35077683d75abe553cc6ef5d3ef5a1a978f07dfbcf4bad5c3d56302ad03dc19","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_1117","text_sha256":"45a67082f269b901dc40a7451a7524a53b4015f4c9397df368759f650c4d54b5","verified":false,"work_id":null}