{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"p-left\">“For dreadful in his destruction is a loquacious\r\nman.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_539\" id=\"FNanchor_539\">[539]</a> And it is with triflers as with old shoes: all the rest is\r\nworn away by evil; the tongue only is left for destruction. Wherefore\r\nWisdom gives these most useful exhortations: “Do not<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_229\">[229]</span> talk trifles\r\nin the multitude of the elders.” Further, eradicating frivolousness,\r\nbeginning with God, it lays down the law for our regulation somewhat\r\nthus: “Do not repeat your words in your prayer.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_540\" id=\"FNanchor_540\">[540]</a> Chirruping and\r\nwhistling, and sounds made through the fingers, by which domestics are\r\ncalled, being irrational signs, are to be given up by rational men.\r\nFrequent spitting, too, and violent clearing of the throat, and wiping\r\none’s nose at an entertainment, are to be shunned. For respect is\r\nassuredly to be had to the guests, lest they turn in disgust from such\r\nfilthiness, which argues want of restraint. For we are not to copy oxen\r\nand asses, whose manger and dunghill are together. For many wipe their\r\nnoses and spit even whilst supping.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","THE INSTRUCTOR.","BOOK II.","CHAPTER VII. DIRECTIONS FOR THOSE WHO LIVE TOGETHER."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_539","paragraph_id":"pg71937-paragraph-402"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"880c3eae11f18ea0ac951c67b6a346584c27e2feea89fad370053c6eacc9e696","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1867,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"SIR","chapter":9,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Ecclus. ix. 25","verse":25,"verse_end":25}],"headings":[],"id":"pg71937-Footnote_539","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_539","source_ebook":71937,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_539\" id=\"Footnote_539\">[539]</a> Ecclus. ix. 25.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"8e5c5bc39922dbad2626ac7651c2eb2e3d94cdcbd721f781e9792143ebb1cd03","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/71937/pg71937-images.html#Footnote_539","text_sha256":"d1c5d51975d5396dab9f4a98df9ed199f7e2263f41d862abcbed64327299984a","verified":false,"work_id":null}