{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>What is involuntary is not matter for judgment. But this is\r\ntwofold,—what is done in ignorance, and what is done through\r\nnecessity. For how will you judge concerning those who are said to sin\r\nin involuntary modes? For either one knew not himself, as Cleomenes\r\nand Athamas, who were mad; or the thing which he does, as Æschylus,\r\nwho divulged the mysteries on the stage, who, being tried in the\r\nAreopagus, was absolved on his showing that he had not been initiated.\r\nOr one knows not what is done, as he who has let off his antagonist,\r\nand slain his domestic instead of his enemy; or that by which it is\r\ndone, as he who, in exercising with spears having buttons on them, has\r\nkilled some one in consequence<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_38\">[38]</span> of the spear throwing off the button;\r\nor knows not the manner how, as he who has killed his antagonist in\r\nthe stadium, for it was not for his death but for victory that he\r\ncontended; or knows not the reason why it is done, as the physician\r\ngave a salutary antidote and killed, for it was not for this purpose\r\nthat he gave it, but to save. The law at that time punished him who had\r\nkilled involuntarily, as <i>e.g.</i> him who was subject involuntarily\r\nto gonorrhœa, but not equally with him who did so voluntarily. Although\r\nhe also shall be punished as for a voluntary action, if one transfer\r\nthe affection to the truth. For, in reality, he that cannot contain\r\nthe generative word is to be punished; for this is an irrational\r\npassion of the soul approaching garrulity. “The faithful man chooses\r\nto conceal things in his spirit.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_129\" id=\"FNanchor_129\">[129]</a> Things, then, that depend on\r\nchoice are subjects for judgment. “For the Lord searcheth the hearts\r\nand reins.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_130\" id=\"FNanchor_130\">[130]</a> “And he that looketh so as to lust”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_131\" id=\"FNanchor_131\">[131]</a> is judged.\r\nWherefore it is said, “Thou shalt not lust.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_132\" id=\"FNanchor_132\">[132]</a> And “this people\r\nhonoureth me with their lips,” it is said, “but their heart is far from\r\nme.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_133\" id=\"FNanchor_133\">[133]</a> For God has respect to the very thought, since Lot’s wife,\r\nwho had merely voluntarily turned towards worldly wickedness, He left a\r\nsenseless mass, rendering her a pillar of salt, and fixed her so that\r\nshe advanced no further, not as a stupid and useless image, but to\r\nseason and salt him who has the power of spiritual perception.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK II.","CHAPTER XIV. HOW A THING MAY BE INVOLUNTARY."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_129","paragraph_id":"pg73020-paragraph-65"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"f83f68e293642ad235a3c1e4c6761480b0dc89d29a31441ef539fb655d3d9027","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"PRO","chapter":11,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Prov. xi. 13","verse":13,"verse_end":13}],"headings":[],"id":"pg73020-Footnote_129","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_129","source_ebook":73020,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_129\" id=\"Footnote_129\">[129]</a> Prov. xi. 13.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"c35077683d75abe553cc6ef5d3ef5a1a978f07dfbcf4bad5c3d56302ad03dc19","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_129","text_sha256":"0482d2edb9490d88814ef8a5296a90b5748bfb0672345f0dd5cb4ccd3316c729","verified":false,"work_id":null}