{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>She who emulates Sarah is not ashamed of that highest of ministries,\r\nhelping wayfarers. For Abraham said to her, “Haste, and knead three\r\nmeasures of meal, and make cakes.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_691\" id=\"FNanchor_691\">[691]</a> “And Rachel, the daughter of\r\nLaban, came,” it is said,<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_311\">[311]</span> “with her father’s sheep.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_692\" id=\"FNanchor_692\">[692]</a> Nor was this\r\nenough; but to teach humility it is added, “for she fed her father’s\r\nsheep.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_693\" id=\"FNanchor_693\">[693]</a> And innumerable such examples of frugality and self-help,\r\nand also of exercises, are furnished by the Scriptures. In the case\r\nof men, let some strip and engage in wrestling; let some play at the\r\nsmall ball, especially the game they call Pheninda,<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_694\" id=\"FNanchor_694\">[694]</a> in the sun. To\r\nothers who walk into the country, or go down into the town, the walk is\r\nsufficient exercise. And were they to handle the hoe, this stroke of\r\neconomy in agricultural labour would not be ungentlemanly.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","THE INSTRUCTOR.","BOOK III.","CHAPTER X. THE EXERCISES SUITED TO A GOOD LIFE."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_691","paragraph_id":"pg71937-paragraph-556"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"cc8a0776b14d99f89b2cb50848d21e444e1f7c5e8db567af30b53a45d79043c9","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1867,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"GEN","chapter":18,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Gen. xviii. 6","verse":6,"verse_end":6}],"headings":[],"id":"pg71937-Footnote_691","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 1867 English translation; translator died 1875. Electronic transcription subject to Project Gutenberg reuse terms.","source_anchor":"Footnote_691","source_ebook":71937,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_691\" id=\"Footnote_691\">[691]</a> Gen. xviii. 6.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"8e5c5bc39922dbad2626ac7651c2eb2e3d94cdcbd721f781e9792143ebb1cd03","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/71937/pg71937-images.html#Footnote_691","text_sha256":"742ba5133688cb014ce3bfcde773c8495b08f303cde89be1fd1828d024768704","verified":false,"work_id":null}