{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Punishments after death, on the other hand, and penal retribution by\r\nfire, were pilfered from the Barbarian philosophy both by all the\r\npoetic Muses and by the Hellenic philosophy. Plato, accordingly, in the\r\nlast book of the <i>Republic</i>, says in these express terms: “Then\r\nthese men fierce and fiery to look on, standing by, and hearing the\r\nsound, seized and took some aside; and binding Aridæus and the rest\r\nhand, foot, and head, and throwing them down, and flaying them, dragged\r\nthem along the way, tearing their flesh with thorns.” For the fiery\r\nmen are meant to signify the angels, who seize and punish the wicked.\r\n“Who maketh,” it is said, “His angels spirits; His ministers flaming\r\nfire.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_839\" id=\"FNanchor_839\">[839]</a> It follows from this that the soul is immortal. For what\r\nis tortured or corrected being in a state of sensation lives, though\r\nsaid to suffer. Well! Did not Plato know of the rivers of fire and the\r\ndepth of the earth, and Tartarus, called by the Barbarians Gehenna,\r\nnaming, as he does prophetically,<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_840\" id=\"FNanchor_840\">[840]</a> Cocytus, and Acheron, and\r\nPyriphlegethon, and introducing such corrective tortures for discipline?</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK V.","CHAPTER XIV. GREEK PLAGIARISMS FROM THE HEBREWS."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_839","paragraph_id":"pg73020-paragraph-429"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"4a32cc8b48cbc263de55b1397ec8883aa4cf7982b43d1a8eee1578fecbad3491","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":104,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Ps. civ. 4","verse":4,"verse_end":4}],"headings":[],"id":"pg73020-Footnote_839","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_839","source_ebook":73020,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_839\" id=\"Footnote_839\">[839]</a> Ps. civ. 4.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"c35077683d75abe553cc6ef5d3ef5a1a978f07dfbcf4bad5c3d56302ad03dc19","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_839","text_sha256":"18f4469063c97471d3f965ef61651ac939689d1272e90d2984d792f566e0ff76","verified":false,"work_id":null}