{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Our Gnostic then alone, having grown old in the Scriptures, and\r\nmaintaining apostolic and ecclesiastic orthodoxy in doctrines, lives\r\nmost correctly in accordance with the gospel, and discovers the proofs,\r\nfor which he may have made search (sent forth as he is by the Lord),\r\nfrom the law and the prophets. For the life of the Gnostic, in my\r\nview, is nothing but deeds and words corresponding to the tradition\r\nof the Lord. But “all have not knowledge. For I would not have you\r\nto be ignorant, brethren,” says the apostle, “that all were under\r\nthe cloud, and partook of spiritual meat and drink;”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1305\" id=\"FNanchor_1305\">[1305]</a> clearly\r\naffirming that all who heard the word did not take in the magnitude\r\nof knowledge in deed and word. Wherefore also he added: “But with all\r\nof them He was not well pleased.” Who is this? He who said, “Why do\r\nye call me Lord, and do not the will of my Father?”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1306\" id=\"FNanchor_1306\">[1306]</a> That is the\r\nSaviour’s teaching, which to us is spiritual food, and drink that knows\r\nno thirst, the water of gnostic life. Further it is said, knowledge is\r\nsaid “to puff up.” To whom we say: Perchance seeming knowledge is said\r\nto puff up, if one<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1307\" id=\"FNanchor_1307\">[1307]</a> suppose the expression means “to be swollen\r\nup.” But if, as is rather the case, the expression of the apostle\r\nmeans, “to entertain great and true sentiments,” the difficulty is\r\nsolved. Following, then, the Scriptures, let us establish what has\r\nbeen said: “Wisdom,” says Solomon, “has inflated her children.” For\r\nthe Lord did not work conceit by the particulars of His teaching; but\r\nHe produces trust in the truth and expansion of mind, in the knowledge\r\nthat is communicated by the Scriptures, and contempt for the things\r\nwhich drag into sin, which is the meaning of the expression “inflated.”\r\nIt teaches the magnificence of the wisdom implanted in her children\r\nby instruction. Now the apostle says, “I will know not the speech of\r\nthose that are puffed up, but the power;”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1308\" id=\"FNanchor_1308\">[1308]</a> if ye understand the\r\nScriptures magnanimously (which means truly; for nothing is greater\r\nthan truth). For in that lies the power of the children of wisdom\r\nwho are puffed up. He<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_485\">[485]</span> says, as it were, I shall know if ye rightly\r\nentertain great thoughts respecting knowledge. “For God,” according\r\nto David, “is known in Judea,” that is, those that are Israelites\r\naccording to knowledge. For Judea is interpreted “Confession.” It is,\r\nthen, rightly said by the apostle, “This, <i>Thou shalt not commit\r\nadultery</i>, <i>Thou shalt not steal</i>, <i>Thou shalt not covet</i>;\r\nand if there be any other commandment, it is comprehended in this word,\r\n<i>Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself</i>.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1309\" id=\"FNanchor_1309\">[1309]</a></p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK VII.","CHAPTER XVI. SCRIPTURE THE CRITERION BY WHICH TRUTH AND HERESY ARE DISTINGUISHED."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_1308","paragraph_id":"pg73020-paragraph-1175"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"d8921cdc7d83eead76b8cb044dfcfb48472074b70da9b8dcd175be9ffd28c7be","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":4,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"1 Cor. iv. 19","verse":19,"verse_end":19}],"headings":[],"id":"pg73020-Footnote_1308","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_1308","source_ebook":73020,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_1308\" id=\"Footnote_1308\">[1308]</a> 1 Cor. iv. 19.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"c35077683d75abe553cc6ef5d3ef5a1a978f07dfbcf4bad5c3d56302ad03dc19","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_1308","text_sha256":"a86e283d9e493c5fd0fb99cebe8fd6f4374f8526afa195d49ce6d667b518d926","verified":false,"work_id":null}