{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>The Gnostic, then, hearing a voice ringing in his ear, which says,\r\n“Whom I shall strike, do thou pity,” beseeches that those who hate him\r\nmay repent. For the punishment of malefactors, to be consummated in the\r\nhighways, is for children to witness;<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1263\" id=\"FNanchor_1263\">[1263]</a> for there is no possibility\r\nof the Gnostic, who has from choice trained himself to be excellent and\r\ngood, ever being instructed or delighted with such spectacles.<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1264\" id=\"FNanchor_1264\">[1264]</a>\r\nAnd so, having become incapable of being softened by pleasures, and\r\nnever falling into sins, he is not corrected by the examples of other\r\nmen’s sufferings. And far from being pleased with earthly pleasures and\r\nspectacles is he who has shown a noble contempt for the prospects held\r\nout in this world, although they are divine.</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_1264","paragraph_id":"pg73020-paragraph-1093"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"dab6c0de1deac70ea2627b5e450d014a4cc135d0eca8a8ee128a6468070a11f0","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_1264","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_1264","source_ebook":73020,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_1264\" id=\"Footnote_1264\">[1264]</a> ὑπὸ τοιούτων is here substituted by Heinsius for ὑπὸ\r\nτῶν αὐτῶν.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"c35077683d75abe553cc6ef5d3ef5a1a978f07dfbcf4bad5c3d56302ad03dc19","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_1264","text_sha256":"5d6adda332c67c1c86120f55bf3d6babbe05b007afb3db94a3bb64f8acdad382","verified":false,"work_id":null}