{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"p-left\">yet let him know that it was God Himself that\r\npromulgated<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_272\">[272]</span> the Scriptures by His Son. And he, who announces what is\r\nhis own, is to be believed. “No one,” says the Lord, “hath known the\r\nFather but the Son, and he to whom the Son shall reveal Him.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_828\" id=\"FNanchor_828\">[828]</a>\r\nThis, then, is to be believed, according to Plato, though it is\r\nannounced and spoken “without probable and necessary proofs,” but in\r\nthe Old and New Testament. “For except ye believe,” says the Lord,\r\n“ye shall die in your sins.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_829\" id=\"FNanchor_829\">[829]</a> And again: “He that believeth hath\r\neverlasting life.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_830\" id=\"FNanchor_830\">[830]</a> “Blessed are all they that put their trust\r\nin Him.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_831\" id=\"FNanchor_831\">[831]</a> For trusting is more than faith. For when one has\r\nbelieved<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_832\" id=\"FNanchor_832\">[832]</a> that the Son of God is our teacher, he trusts<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_833\" id=\"FNanchor_833\">[833]</a> that\r\nhis teaching is true. And as “instruction,” according to Empedocles,\r\n“makes the mind grow,” so trust in the Lord makes faith grow.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK V.","CHAPTER XIII. THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD A DIVINE GIFT, ACCORDING TO THE PHILOSOPHERS."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_832","paragraph_id":"pg73020-paragraph-422"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"ef9623c87111c67e32456c7abe5a75f04219aa43bb03831040063410fc859814","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_832","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_832","source_ebook":73020,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_832\" id=\"Footnote_832\">[832]</a> The text ἐπίστηται, but the sense seems to require\r\nἐπίστευσε.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"c35077683d75abe553cc6ef5d3ef5a1a978f07dfbcf4bad5c3d56302ad03dc19","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_832","text_sha256":"1536cac6e9012877c017144984d82161597a8908ec3cae61223d88263537b7bb","verified":false,"work_id":null}