{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>And when, again, it is said in the ode, “For He hath\r\ntriumphed gloriously: the horse and his rider hath He cast into the\r\nsea;”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_781\" id=\"FNanchor_781\">[781]</a> the many-limbed and brutal affection, lust, with the rider\r\nmounted, who gives the reins to pleasures, “He has cast into the sea,”\r\nthrowing them away into the disorders of the world. Thus also Plato,\r\nin his book <i>On the Soul</i>, says that the charioteer and the horse\r\nthat ran off—the irrational part, which is divided in two, into anger\r\nand concupiscence—fall down; and so the myth intimates that it was\r\nthrough the licentiousness of the steeds that Phaëthon was thrown out.\r\nAlso in the case of Joseph: the brothers<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_253\">[253]</span> having envied this young man,\r\nwho by his knowledge was possessed of uncommon foresight, stripped off\r\nthe coat of many colours, and took and threw him into a pit (the pit\r\nwas empty, it had no water), rejecting the good man’s varied knowledge,\r\nspringing from his love of instruction; or, in the exercise of the bare\r\nfaith, which is according to the law, they threw him into the pit empty\r\nof water, selling him into Egypt, which was destitute of the divine\r\nword. And the pit was destitute of knowledge; into which being thrown\r\nand stript of his knowledge, he that had become unconsciously wise,\r\nstript of knowledge, seemed like his brethren. Otherwise interpreted,\r\nthe coat of many colours is lust, which takes its way into a yawning\r\npit. “And if one open up or hew out a pit,” it is said, “and do not\r\ncover it, and there fall in there a calf or ass, the owner of the\r\npit shall pay the price in money, and give it to his neighbour; and\r\nthe dead body shall be his.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_782\" id=\"FNanchor_782\">[782]</a> Here add that prophecy: “The ox\r\nknoweth his owner, and the ass his master’s crib: but Israel hath not\r\nunderstood me.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_783\" id=\"FNanchor_783\">[783]</a> In order, then, that none of those, who have\r\nfallen in with the knowledge taught by thee, may become incapable of\r\nholding the truth, and disobey and fall away, it is said, Be thou sure\r\nin the treatment of the word, and shut up the living spring in the\r\ndepth from those who approach irrationally, but reach drink to those\r\nthat thirst for truth. Conceal it, then, from those who are unfit to\r\nreceive the depth of knowledge, and so cover the pit. The owner of the\r\npit, then, the Gnostic, shall himself be punished, incurring the blame\r\nof the others stumbling, and of being overwhelmed by the greatness\r\nof the word, he himself being of small capacity; or transferring the\r\nworker into the region of speculation, and on that account dislodging\r\nhim from offhand faith. “And will pay money,” rendering a reckoning,\r\nand submitting his accounts to the “omnipotent Will.”</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK V.","CHAPTER VIII. THE USE OF THE SYMBOLIC STYLE BY POETS AND PHILOSOPHERS."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_783","paragraph_id":"pg73020-paragraph-380"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"5fe137672dad37d1f82f473f3761149eac4f2fc8e83ee3d87e2267257faa0d3d","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"ISA","chapter":1,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Isa. i. 3","verse":3,"verse_end":3}],"headings":[],"id":"pg73020-Footnote_783","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_783","source_ebook":73020,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_783\" id=\"Footnote_783\">[783]</a> Isa. i. 3.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"c35077683d75abe553cc6ef5d3ef5a1a978f07dfbcf4bad5c3d56302ad03dc19","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_783","text_sha256":"95638546212212e4857f1edbac98ff99bac6c61a759221084cb1712a60c2befb","verified":false,"work_id":null}