{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Again: “Abraham, when he came to the place which God told him of on\r\nthe third day, looking up, saw the place afar off.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_809\" id=\"FNanchor_809\">[809]</a> For the first\r\nday is that which is constituted by the sight<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_265\">[265]</span> of good things; and the\r\nsecond is the soul’s<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_810\" id=\"FNanchor_810\">[810]</a> best desire; on the third, the mind perceives\r\nspiritual things, the eyes of the understanding being opened by the\r\nTeacher who rose on the third day. The three days may be the mystery of\r\nthe seal,<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_811\" id=\"FNanchor_811\">[811]</a> in which God is really believed. It is consequently afar\r\noff that he sees the place. For the region of God is hard to attain;\r\nwhich Plato called the region of ideas, having learned from Moses that\r\nit was a place which contained all things universally. But it is seen\r\nby Abraham afar off, rightly, because of his being in the realms of\r\ngeneration, and he is forthwith initiated by the angel. Thence says\r\nthe apostle: “Now we see as through a glass, but then face to face,”\r\nby those sole pure and incorporeal applications of the intellect. In\r\nreasoning, it is possible to divine respecting God, if one attempt\r\nwithout any of the senses, by reason, to reach what is individual; and\r\ndo not quit the sphere of existences, till, rising up to the things\r\nwhich transcend it, he apprehends by the intellect itself that which is\r\ngood, moving in the very confines of the world of thought, according to\r\nPlato.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK V.","CHAPTER XI. ABSTRACTION FROM MATERIAL THINGS NECESSARY IN ORDER TO ATTAIN TO THE TRUE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_809","paragraph_id":"pg73020-paragraph-403"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"1c5493711825b4994827e3ebdc4953867187d9f55c5c9da08db126e3cc594551","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"GEN","chapter":22,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Gen. xxii. 3","verse":3,"verse_end":3}],"headings":[],"id":"pg73020-Footnote_809","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_809","source_ebook":73020,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_809\" id=\"Footnote_809\">[809]</a> Gen. xxii. 3, 4.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"c35077683d75abe553cc6ef5d3ef5a1a978f07dfbcf4bad5c3d56302ad03dc19","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_809","text_sha256":"d6bdc48cf5283569047e977889ec91348ad655a2607800ea6929b0639852b6a4","verified":false,"work_id":null}