{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>There is then in philosophy, though stolen as the fire by Prometheus,\r\na slender spark, capable of being fanned into flame, a trace of wisdom\r\nand an impulse from God. Well, be it so that “the thieves and robbers”\r\nare the philosophers among the Greeks, who from the Hebrew prophets\r\nbefore the coming of the Lord received fragments of the truth, not with\r\nfull knowledge, and claimed these as their own teachings, disguising\r\nsome points, treating others sophistically by their ingenuity, and\r\ndiscovering other things, for perchance they had “the spirit of\r\nperception.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_958\" id=\"FNanchor_958\">[958]</a> Aristotle, too, assented to Scripture, and declared\r\nsophistry to have stolen wisdom, as we intimated before. And the\r\napostle says, “Which things we speak, not in the words which man’s\r\nwisdom teacheth, but which the Holy Ghost teacheth.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_959\" id=\"FNanchor_959\">[959]</a> For of the\r\nprophets it is said, “We have all received of His fulness,”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_960\" id=\"FNanchor_960\">[960]</a> that\r\nis, of Christ’s. So that the prophets are not thieves. “And my doctrine\r\nis not mine,” saith the Lord, “but the Father’s which sent me.” And of\r\nthose who steal He says: “But he that speaketh of himself, seeketh his\r\nown glory.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_961\" id=\"FNanchor_961\">[961]</a> Such are the Greeks, “lovers of their own selves, and\r\nboasters.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_962\" id=\"FNanchor_962\">[962]</a> Scripture, when it speaks of these as wise, does not\r\nbrand those who are really wise, but those who are wise in appearance.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","THE MISCELLANIES.","BOOK I.","CHAPTER XVII. ON THE SAYING OF THE SAVIOUR, “ALL THAT CAME BEFORE ME WERE THIEVES AND ROBBERS.”"],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_960","paragraph_id":"pg71937-paragraph-744"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"c82c559d32c6e7be910fdd9e0e8c4d4aed34008fa761994bcc8b58cbf3524749","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1867,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"JHN","chapter":1,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"John i. 16","verse":16,"verse_end":16}],"headings":[],"id":"pg71937-Footnote_960","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_960","source_ebook":71937,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_960\" id=\"Footnote_960\">[960]</a> John i. 16.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"8e5c5bc39922dbad2626ac7651c2eb2e3d94cdcbd721f781e9792143ebb1cd03","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/71937/pg71937-images.html#Footnote_960","text_sha256":"ef6854a10b805642e74797ace67c83ab5b3e595601f1ee191fab3cfa1db5f1fb","verified":false,"work_id":null}