{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"drop-cap p-left\">Let us keep away from us jibing, the originator of insult, from which\r\nstrifes and contentions and enmities burst forth. Insult, we have\r\nsaid, is the servant of drunkenness. A man is judged, not from his\r\ndeeds alone, but from his words. “In a banquet,” it is said, “reprove\r\nnot thy neighbour, nor say to him a word of reproach.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_525\" id=\"FNanchor_525\">[525]</a> For if we\r\nare enjoined especially to associate with saints, it is a sin to jibe\r\nat a saint: “For from the mouth of the foolish,” says the Scripture,\r\n“is a staff of insult,”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_526\" id=\"FNanchor_526\">[526]</a>—meaning by staff the prop of insult, on\r\nwhich insult leans and rests. Whence I admire the apostle, who, in\r\nreference to this, exhorts us not to utter “scurrilous nor unsuitable\r\nwords.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_527\" id=\"FNanchor_527\">[527]</a> For if the assemblies at festivals take place on account\r\nof affection, and the end of a banquet is friendliness towards those\r\nwho meet, and meat and drink accompany affection, how should not\r\nconversation be conducted in a rational manner, and puzzling people\r\nwith questions be avoided from affection? For if we meet together for\r\nthe purpose of increasing our good-will to each other, why should we\r\nstir up enmity by jibing? It is better to be silent than to contradict,\r\nand thereby add sin to ignorance. “Blessed,” in truth, “is the man who\r\nhas not made a slip with his mouth, and has not been pierced by the\r\npain of sin;”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_528\" id=\"FNanchor_528\">[528]</a> or has repented of what he has said amiss, or has\r\nspoken so as to wound no one. On the whole, let young men and young\r\nwomen altogether keep away from such festivals, that they may not make\r\na slip in respect to what is unsuitable. For things to which their\r\nears<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_226\">[226]</span> are unaccustomed, and unseemly sights, inflame the mind, while\r\nfaith within them is still wavering; and the instability of their age\r\nconspires to make them easily carried away by lust. Sometimes also\r\nthey are the cause of others stumbling, by displaying the dangerous\r\ncharms of their time of life. For Wisdom appears to enjoin well: “Sit\r\nnot at all with a married woman, and recline not on the elbow with\r\nher;”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_529\" id=\"FNanchor_529\">[529]</a> that is, do not sup nor eat with her frequently. Wherefore\r\nhe adds, “And do not join company with her in wine, lest thy heart\r\nincline to her, and by thy blood slide to ruin.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_530\" id=\"FNanchor_530\">[530]</a> For the licence\r\nof intoxication is dangerous, and prone to deflower. And he names “a\r\nmarried woman,” because the danger is greater to him who attempts to\r\nbreak the connubial bond.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","THE INSTRUCTOR.","BOOK II.","CHAPTER VII. DIRECTIONS FOR THOSE WHO LIVE TOGETHER."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_527","paragraph_id":"pg71937-paragraph-400"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"9c675c4afa07785bf05eda3d63ba444a388acbc26c156b5ae629e207e47719ed","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1867,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"EPH","chapter":5,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Eph. v. 4","verse":4,"verse_end":4}],"headings":[],"id":"pg71937-Footnote_527","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_527","source_ebook":71937,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_527\" id=\"Footnote_527\">[527]</a> Eph. v. 4.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"8e5c5bc39922dbad2626ac7651c2eb2e3d94cdcbd721f781e9792143ebb1cd03","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/71937/pg71937-images.html#Footnote_527","text_sha256":"33b43840fae899831b40dadca5c787d1431b1cf392ae712eee0da6e0effc383c","verified":false,"work_id":null}