{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>If the confession to God is martyrdom, each soul which has lived\r\npurely in the knowledge of God, which has obeyed the commandments, is\r\na witness both by life and word, in whatever way it may be released\r\nfrom the body,—shedding faith as blood along its whole life till its\r\ndeparture. For instance, the Lord says in the Gospel, “Whosoever shall\r\nleave father, or mother, or brethren,” and so forth, “for the sake of\r\nthe gospel and my name,”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_497\" id=\"FNanchor_497\">[497]</a> he is blessed; not indicating simple\r\nmartyrdom, but the gnostic martyrdom, as of the man who has conducted\r\nhimself according to the rule of the gospel, in love to the Lord (for\r\nthe knowledge of the Name and the understanding of the gospel point out\r\nthe gnosis, but not the bare appellation), so as to leave his worldly\r\nkindred, and wealth, and every possession, in order to lead a life\r\nfree from passion. “Mother” figuratively means country and sustenance;\r\n“fathers” are the laws of civil polity: which must be contemned\r\nthankfully by the high-souled just man;<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_147\">[147]</span> for the sake of being the\r\nfriend of God, and of obtaining the right hand in the holy place, as\r\nthe Apostles have done.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK IV.","CHAPTER IV. THE PRAISES OF MARTYRDOM."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_497","paragraph_id":"pg73020-paragraph-187"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"50beeab215c7dd4f0aec487ea0296c77835bb36fecf1013c374b47c58ab8ca67","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"MAT","chapter":19,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Matt. xix. 29","verse":29,"verse_end":29}],"headings":[],"id":"pg73020-Footnote_497","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_497","source_ebook":73020,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_497\" id=\"Footnote_497\">[497]</a> Matt. xix. 29.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"c35077683d75abe553cc6ef5d3ef5a1a978f07dfbcf4bad5c3d56302ad03dc19","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_497","text_sha256":"bd72c8683feca700cbf9a3d074f7ca5d00ff948da12e30aae3b7b2956b0b5467","verified":false,"work_id":null}