{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"p-left\">Wherefore also the apostle exhorts, “that your faith\r\nshould not be in the wisdom of men,” who profess to persuade, “but<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_226\">[226]</span> in\r\nthe power of God,”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_717\" id=\"FNanchor_717\">[717]</a> which alone without proofs, by mere faith, is\r\nable to save. “For the most approved of those that are reputable knows\r\nhow to keep watch. And justice will apprehend the forgers and witnesses\r\nof lies,” says the Ephesian.<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_718\" id=\"FNanchor_718\">[718]</a> For he, having derived his knowledge\r\nfrom the barbarian philosophy, is acquainted with the purification\r\nby fire of those who have led bad lives, which the Stoics afterwards\r\ncalled the Conflagration (ἐκπύρωσις), in which also they teach that\r\neach will arise exactly as he was, so treating of the resurrection;\r\nwhile Plato says as follows, that the earth at certain periods is\r\npurified by fire and water: “There have been many destructions of men\r\nin many ways; and there shall be very great ones by fire and water;\r\nand others briefer by innumerable causes.” And after a little he adds:\r\n“And, in truth, there is a change of the objects which revolve about\r\nearth and heaven; and in the course of long periods there is the\r\ndestruction of the objects on earth by a great conflagration.” Then\r\nhe subjoins respecting the deluge: “But when, again, the gods deluge\r\nthe earth to purify it with water, those on the mountains, herdsmen\r\nand shepherds, are saved; those in your cities are carried down by the\r\nrivers into the sea.” And we showed in the first Miscellany that the\r\nphilosophers of the Greeks are called thieves, inasmuch as they have\r\ntaken without acknowledgment their principal dogmas from Moses and the\r\nprophets. To which also we shall add, that the angels who had obtained\r\nthe superior rank, having sunk into pleasures, told to the women the\r\nsecrets which had come to their knowledge; while the rest of the angels\r\nconcealed them, or rather, kept them against the coming of the Lord.\r\nThence emanated the doctrine of providence, and the revelation of high\r\nthings; and prophecy having already been imparted to the philosophers\r\nof the Greeks, the treatment of dogma arose among the philosophers,\r\nsometimes true when they hit the mark, and sometimes erroneous, when\r\nthey comprehended not the secret of the prophetic allegory. And this it\r\nis proposed briefly to indicate in running over the points requiring\r\nmention. Faith,<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_227\">[227]</span> then, we say, we are to show must not be inert and\r\nalone, but accompanied with investigation. For I do not say that we are\r\nnot to inquire at all. For “Search, and thou shalt find,”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_719\" id=\"FNanchor_719\">[719]</a> it is\r\nsaid.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK V.","CHAPTER I. ON FAITH."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_717","paragraph_id":"pg73020-paragraph-306"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"509670d26ee15560d12a606f705bdc9315898fbc0e0ac069b155ece445f2bcdc","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"1CO","chapter":2,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"1 Cor. ii. 5","verse":5,"verse_end":5}],"headings":[],"id":"pg73020-Footnote_717","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_717","source_ebook":73020,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_717\" id=\"Footnote_717\">[717]</a> 1 Cor. ii. 5.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"c35077683d75abe553cc6ef5d3ef5a1a978f07dfbcf4bad5c3d56302ad03dc19","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_717","text_sha256":"5ff1a060c1728599bd6a063b923753d69eef8fbe7d922099610c47d02a8d4b2e","verified":false,"work_id":null}