{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>If, then, “the milk” is said by the apostle to belong to the babes, and\r\n“meat” to be the food of the full-grown, milk will be understood to\r\nbe catechetical instruction—the first food, as it were, of the soul.\r\nAnd meat is the mystic contemplation; for this is the flesh and the\r\nblood of the Word, that is, the comprehension of the divine power and\r\nessence. “Taste and see that the Lord is Christ,”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_803\" id=\"FNanchor_803\">[803]</a> it is said. For\r\nso<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_261\">[261]</span> He imparts of Himself to those who partake of such food in a more\r\nspiritual manner; when now the soul nourishes itself, according to the\r\ntruth-loving Plato. For the knowledge of the divine essence is the meat\r\nand drink of the divine Word. Wherefore also Plato says, in the second\r\nbook of the <i>Republic</i>, “It is those that sacrifice not a sow, but\r\nsome great and difficult sacrifice,” who ought to inquire respecting\r\nGod. And the apostle writes, “Christ our passover was sacrificed for\r\nus;”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_804\" id=\"FNanchor_804\">[804]</a>—a sacrifice hard to procure, in truth, the Son of God\r\nconsecrated for us.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK V.","CHAPTER X. THE OPINION OF THE APOSTLES ON VEILING THE MYSTERIES OF THE FAITH."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_804","paragraph_id":"pg73020-paragraph-393"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"e54eb4a58c4b5cfbde609abc2942713b6aa5201f3687b1297bd66fd1426a84a4","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"1CO","chapter":5,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"1 Cor. v. 7","verse":7,"verse_end":7}],"headings":[],"id":"pg73020-Footnote_804","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_804","source_ebook":73020,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_804\" id=\"Footnote_804\">[804]</a> 1 Cor. v. 7.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"c35077683d75abe553cc6ef5d3ef5a1a978f07dfbcf4bad5c3d56302ad03dc19","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_804","text_sha256":"4ad05845a6635011719eae65f30164c04b56bddb16548364209395579a3cda2f","verified":false,"work_id":null}