{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>“For the minds of those even who are deemed grave, pleasure<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_63\">[63]</span> makes\r\nwaxen,” according to Plato; since “each pleasure and pain nails to the\r\nbody the soul” of the man, that does not sever and crucify himself from\r\nthe passions. “He that loses his life,” says the Lord, “shall save it;”\r\neither giving it up by exposing it to danger for the Lord’s sake, as He\r\ndid for us, or loosing it from fellowship with its habitual life. For\r\nif you would loose, and withdraw, and separate (for this is what the\r\ncross means) your soul from the delight and pleasure that is in this\r\nlife, you will possess it, found and resting in the looked-for hope.\r\nAnd this would be the exercise of death, if we would be content with\r\nthose desires which are measured according to nature alone, which do\r\nnot pass the limit of those which are in accordance with nature—by\r\ngoing to excess, or going against nature—in which the possibility of\r\nsinning arises. “We must therefore put on the panoply of God, that\r\nwe may be able to stand against the wiles of the devil; since the\r\nweapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God to the\r\npulling down of strongholds, casting down reasonings, and every lofty\r\nthing which exalteth itself against the knowledge of God, and bringing\r\nevery thought into captivity unto the obedience of Christ,”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_224\" id=\"FNanchor_224\">[224]</a>\r\nsays the divine apostle. There is need of a man who shall use in a\r\npraiseworthy and discriminating manner the things from which passions\r\ntake their rise, as riches and poverty, honour and dishonour, health\r\nand sickness, life and death, toil and pleasure. For, in order that\r\nwe may treat things, that are different, indifferently, there is need\r\nof a great difference in us, as having been previously afflicted with\r\nmuch feebleness, and in the distortion of a bad training and nurture\r\nignorantly indulged ourselves. The simple word, then, of our philosophy\r\ndeclares the passions to be impressions on the soul that is soft and\r\nyielding, and, as it were, the signatures of the spiritual powers with\r\nwhom we have to struggle. For it is the business, in my opinion, of\r\nthe maleficent powers to endeavour to produce somewhat of their own\r\nconstitution in everything, so as to overcome and make their own those\r\nwho have renounced them. And it follows, as<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_64\">[64]</span> might be expected, that\r\nsome are worsted; but in the case of those who engage in the contest\r\nwith more athletic energy, the powers mentioned above, after carrying\r\non the conflict in all forms, and advancing even as far as the crown\r\nwading in gore, decline the battle, and admire the victors.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK II.","CHAPTER XX. THE TRUE GNOSTIC EXERCISES PATIENCE AND SELF-RESTRAINT."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_224","paragraph_id":"pg73020-paragraph-99"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"88ecea713f317efae3db2eb4d1f0e651f831a6cc432a498292c3eae23939643d","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"EPH","chapter":6,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Eph. vi. 11","verse":11,"verse_end":11}],"headings":[],"id":"pg73020-Footnote_224","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_224","source_ebook":73020,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_224\" id=\"Footnote_224\">[224]</a> Eph. vi. 11.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"c35077683d75abe553cc6ef5d3ef5a1a978f07dfbcf4bad5c3d56302ad03dc19","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_224","text_sha256":"27146510746bf4f4702582fb8c3410cf6ed64b0aad8f1bc6f9cc6730ac51efc1","verified":false,"work_id":null}