{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>He, all day and night, speaking and doing the Lord’s commands, rejoices\r\nexceedingly, not only on rising in the morning and at noon, but\r\nalso when walking about, when asleep, when dressing and undressing;\r\nand he teaches his son, if he has a son. He is inseparable from the\r\ncommandment and from hope, and is ever giving thanks to God, like the\r\nliving creatures figuratively spoken of by Esaias, and submissive\r\nin every trial, he says, “The Lord gave, and the Lord hath taken\r\naway.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1278\" id=\"FNanchor_1278\">[1278]</a> For such also was Job; who after the spoiling of his\r\neffects, along with the health of his body, resigned all through love\r\nto the Lord. For “he was,” it is said, “just, holy, and kept apart from\r\nall wickedness.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1279\" id=\"FNanchor_1279\">[1279]</a> Now the word “holy” points out all duties toward\r\nGod, and the entire course of life. Knowing which, he was a Gnostic.\r\nFor we must neither cling too much to such things, even if they are\r\ngood, seeing they are human, nor on the other hand detest them, if they\r\nare bad; but we must be above both [good and bad], trampling the latter\r\nunder foot, and passing on the former to those who need them. But the\r\nGnostic is cautious in accommodation, lest he be not perceived, or lest\r\nthe accommodation become disposition.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK VII.","CHAPTER XII. THE TRUE GNOSTIC IS BENEFICENT, CONTINENT, AND DESPISES WORLDLY THINGS."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_1279","paragraph_id":"pg73020-paragraph-1110"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"8ba1daa21bce0f96fa7f8058a6351e90373a6da88f63ee77361efdf0509a2e2b","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg73020-Footnote_1279","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_1279","source_ebook":73020,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_1279\" id=\"Footnote_1279\">[1279]</a> Job i. 1.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"c35077683d75abe553cc6ef5d3ef5a1a978f07dfbcf4bad5c3d56302ad03dc19","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_1279","text_sha256":"e5bf3892a99614b5caebc11355917bde21f18d05f10b347ebae58c2f0bfa5db3","verified":false,"work_id":null}