{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Such were the impediments in the way of my writing. And even now I\r\nfear, as it is said, “to cast the pearls before swine, lest they tread\r\nthem under foot, and turn and rend us.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_917\" id=\"FNanchor_917\">[917]</a> For it is difficult to\r\nexhibit the really pure and transparent words respecting the true\r\nlight, to swinish and untrained hearers. For scarcely could anything\r\nwhich they could hear be more ludicrous than these to the multitude;\r\nnor any subjects on the other hand more admirable or more inspiring to\r\nthose of noble nature. “But the natural man receiveth not the things of\r\nthe Spirit of God; for they are foolishness to him.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_918\" id=\"FNanchor_918\">[918]</a> But the wise\r\ndo not utter with their mouth what they reason in council. “But what\r\nye hear in the ear,” says the Lord, “proclaim upon the houses;”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_919\" id=\"FNanchor_919\">[919]</a>\r\nbidding them receive the secret traditions of the true knowledge, and\r\nexpound them aloft and conspicuously; and as we have heard in the\r\near, so to deliver them to whom it is requisite; but not enjoining us\r\nto communicate to all without distinction, what is said to them in\r\nparables. But there is only a delineation in the memoranda, which have\r\nthe truth sowed sparse and broadcast, that it may escape the notice\r\nof those who pick up seeds like jackdaws; but when they find a good\r\nhusbandman, each one of them will germinate and produce corn.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","THE MISCELLANIES.","BOOK I.","CHAPTER XII. THE MYSTERIES OF THE FAITH NOT TO BE DIVULGED TO ALL."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_918","paragraph_id":"pg71937-paragraph-717"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"90185a9e08457e6ff606037069fbb133d46155b972e416e40a43e094c52dadc8","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1867,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg71937-Footnote_918","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_918","source_ebook":71937,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_918\" id=\"Footnote_918\">[918]</a> 1 Cor. ii, 14.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"8e5c5bc39922dbad2626ac7651c2eb2e3d94cdcbd721f781e9792143ebb1cd03","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/71937/pg71937-images.html#Footnote_918","text_sha256":"5f57bc9d39d25fd4563bf5c05c90fa3686b5a2af1b53f9dac3dd32dd428eb50a","verified":false,"work_id":null}