{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>By which consideration<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1065\" id=\"FNanchor_1065\">[1065]</a> is solved the question propounded to us\r\nby the heretics, Whether Adam was created perfect or imperfect? Well,\r\nif imperfect, how could the work of a perfect God—above all, that\r\nwork being man—be imperfect? And if perfect, how did he transgress\r\nthe commandments? For they shall hear from us that he was not perfect\r\nin his creation, but adapted to the reception of virtue. For it is\r\nof great importance in regard to virtue to be made fit for its<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_360\">[360]</span>\r\nattainment. And it is intended that we should be saved by ourselves.\r\nThis, then, is the nature of the soul, to move of itself. Then, as we\r\nare rational, and philosophy being rational, we have some affinity with\r\nit. Now an aptitude is a movement towards virtue, not virtue itself.\r\nAll, then, as I said, are naturally constituted for the acquisition of\r\nvirtue.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK VI.","CHAPTER XII. HUMAN NATURE POSSESSES AN ADAPTATION FOR PERFECTION; THE GNOSTIC ALONE ATTAINS IT."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_1065","paragraph_id":"pg73020-paragraph-780"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"35987a8e92b9ac41634b8a0d859b2793a50e9d1632e1b2126654168c4137f89e","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg73020-Footnote_1065","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_1065","source_ebook":73020,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_1065\" id=\"Footnote_1065\">[1065]</a> <i>i.e.</i> that mentioned in the last sentence of\r\nchap. xi., which would more appropriately be transferred to chap. xii.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"c35077683d75abe553cc6ef5d3ef5a1a978f07dfbcf4bad5c3d56302ad03dc19","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_1065","text_sha256":"c2db11fc44238584e496181ef49091ceb1174407e0d7d1f026fbcac8aaa18fe3","verified":false,"work_id":null}