{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>What, I ask, more graceful, more gay-coloured, than flowers? What, I\r\nsay, more delightful than lilies or roses? “And if God so clothe the\r\ngrass, which is to-day in the field, and to-morrow is cast into the\r\noven, how much more will He clothe you, O ye of little faith!”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_590\" id=\"FNanchor_590\">[590]</a>\r\nHere the particle <i>what</i> (τι) banishes variety in food. For\r\nthis is shown from the<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_256\">[256]</span> scripture, “Take no thought what things ye\r\nshall eat, or what things ye shall drink.” For to take thought of\r\nthese things argues greed and luxury. Now eating, considered merely\r\nby itself, is the sign of necessity; repletion, as we have said, of\r\nwant. Whatever is beyond that, is the sign of superfluity. And what\r\nis superfluous, Scripture declares to be of the devil. The subjoined\r\nexpression makes the meaning plain. For having said, “Seek not what\r\nye shall eat, or what ye shall drink,” He added, “Neither be ye of\r\ndoubtful (or lofty)<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_591\" id=\"FNanchor_591\">[591]</a> mind.” Now pride and luxury make men waverers\r\n(or raise them aloft) from the truth; and the voluptuousness, which\r\nindulges in superfluities, leads away from the truth. Wherefore He says\r\nvery beautifully, “And all these things do the nations of the world\r\nseek after.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_592\" id=\"FNanchor_592\">[592]</a> The nations are the dissolute and the foolish. And\r\nwhat are these things which He specifies? Luxury, voluptuousness, rich\r\ncooking, dainty feeding, gluttony. These are the “What?” And of bare\r\nsustenance, dry and moist, as being necessaries, He says, “Your Father\r\nknoweth that ye need these.” And if, in a word, we are naturally given\r\nto seeking, let us not destroy the faculty of seeking by directing it\r\nto luxury, but let us excite it to the discovery of truth. For He says,\r\n“Seek ye the kingdom of God, and the materials of sustenance shall be\r\nadded to you.”</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","THE INSTRUCTOR.","BOOK II.","CHAPTER XI. ON CLOTHES."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_590","paragraph_id":"pg71937-paragraph-442"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"bb83ac7577d28851818b99e8c637fef89a2ec2eec29ef3f9005ae622c3580e80","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1867,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"LUK","chapter":12,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Luke xii. 28","verse":28,"verse_end":28}],"headings":[],"id":"pg71937-Footnote_590","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_590","source_ebook":71937,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_590\" id=\"Footnote_590\">[590]</a> Luke xii. 28.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"8e5c5bc39922dbad2626ac7651c2eb2e3d94cdcbd721f781e9792143ebb1cd03","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/71937/pg71937-images.html#Footnote_590","text_sha256":"5d391cc0f4cca6bfa510e85408466071581f7b77809c5c942e94a13e8d05ed70","verified":false,"work_id":null}