{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>The divine apostle writes accordingly respecting us: “For now we see\r\nas through a glass;”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_978\" id=\"FNanchor_978\">[978]</a> knowing ourselves in it by reflection,\r\nand simultaneously contemplating, as we can, the efficient cause,\r\nfrom that, which, in us, is divine. For it is said, “Having seen thy\r\nbrother, thou hast seen thy God:” methinks that now the Saviour God\r\nis declared to us. But after the laying aside of the flesh, “face to\r\nface,”—then definitely and comprehensively, when the heart becomes\r\npure. And by reflection and direct vision, those among the Greeks who\r\nhave philosophized accurately, see God. For such, through our weakness,\r\nare our true views, as images are seen<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_416\">[416]</span> in the water, and as we see\r\nthings through pellucid and transparent bodies. Excellently therefore\r\nSolomon says: “He who soweth righteousness, worketh faith.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_979\" id=\"FNanchor_979\">[979]</a> “And\r\nthere are those who, sowing their own, make increase.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_980\" id=\"FNanchor_980\">[980]</a> And again:\r\n“Take care of the verdure on the plain, and thou shalt cut grass and\r\ngather ripe hay, that thou mayest have sheep for clothing.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_981\" id=\"FNanchor_981\">[981]</a> You\r\nsee how care must be taken for external clothing and for keeping. “And\r\nthou shalt intelligently know the souls of thy flock.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_982\" id=\"FNanchor_982\">[982]</a> “For when\r\nthe Gentiles, which have not the law, do by nature the things contained\r\nin the law, these, having not the law, are a law unto themselves;\r\nuncircumcision observing the precepts of the law,”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_983\" id=\"FNanchor_983\">[983]</a> according to\r\nthe apostle, both before the law and before the advent. As if making\r\ncomparison of those addicted to philosophy with those called heretics,\r\nthe Word most clearly says: “Better is a friend that is near, than a\r\nbrother that dwelleth afar off.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_984\" id=\"FNanchor_984\">[984]</a> “And he who relies on falsehoods,\r\nfeeds on the winds, and pursues winged birds.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_985\" id=\"FNanchor_985\">[985]</a> I do not think\r\nthat philosophy directly declares the Word, although in many instances\r\nphilosophy attempts and persuasively teaches us probable arguments;\r\nbut it assails the sects. Accordingly it is added: “For he hath\r\nforsaken the ways of his own vineyard, and wandered in the tracks of\r\nhis own husbandry.” Such are the sects which deserted the primitive\r\nchurch. Now he who has fallen into heresy passes through an arid\r\nwilderness, abandoning the only true God, destitute of God, seeking\r\nwaterless water, reaching an uninhabited and thirsty land, collecting\r\nsterility with his hands. And those destitute of prudence, that is,\r\nthose involved in heresies, “I enjoin,” remarks Wisdom, saying, “Touch\r\nsweetly stolen bread and the sweet water of theft;”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_986\" id=\"FNanchor_986\">[986]</a> the Scripture\r\nmanifestly applying the terms bread and water to nothing else but to\r\nthose heresies, which employ bread and water in the oblation, not\r\naccording to the rule of the church. For there are those who celebrate\r\nthe Eucharist with mere water. “But begone, stay not in her<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_417\">[417]</span> place.” It\r\nis the synagogue, not the church, that is called by the equivocal name,\r\nplace. Then He subjoins: “For so shalt thou pass through the water of\r\nanother;” reckoning heretical baptism not proper and true water. “And\r\nthou shalt pass over another’s river,” that rushes along and sweeps\r\ndown to the sea; into which he is cast who, having diverged from the\r\nstability which is according to truth, rushes back into the heathenish\r\nand tumultuous waves of life.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","THE MISCELLANIES.","BOOK I.","CHAPTER XIX. 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