{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Now among the Greeks, Minos the king of nine years’ reign,<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_13\">[13]</span> and\r\nfamiliar friend of Zeus, is celebrated in song; they having heard how\r\nonce God conversed with Moses, “as one speaking with his friend.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_39\" id=\"FNanchor_39\">[39]</a>\r\nMoses, then, was a sage, king, legislator. But our Saviour surpasses\r\nall human nature. He is so lovely, as to be alone loved by us, whose\r\nhearts are set on the true beauty, for “He was the true light.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_40\" id=\"FNanchor_40\">[40]</a> He\r\nis shown to be a King, as such hailed by unsophisticated children and\r\nby the unbelieving and ignorant Jews, and heralded by the prophets.\r\nSo rich is He, that He despised the whole earth, and the gold above\r\nand beneath it, with all glory, when given to Him by the adversary.\r\nWhat need is there to say that He is the only High Priest, who alone\r\npossesses the knowledge of the worship of God?<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_41\" id=\"FNanchor_41\">[41]</a> He is Melchizedek,\r\n“King of peace,”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_42\" id=\"FNanchor_42\">[42]</a> the most fit of all to head the race of men.\r\nA legislator too, inasmuch as He gave the law by the mouth of the\r\nprophets, enjoining and teaching most distinctly what things are to be\r\ndone, and what not. Who of nobler lineage than He whose only Father is\r\nGod? Come, then, let us produce Plato assenting to those very dogmas.\r\nThe wise man he calls rich in the <i>Phædrus</i>, when he says, “O\r\ndear Pan, and whatever other gods are here, grant me to become fair\r\nwithin; and whatever external things I have, let them be agreeable to\r\nwhat is within. I would reckon the wise man rich.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_43\" id=\"FNanchor_43\">[43]</a> And the Athenian\r\nstranger,<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_44\" id=\"FNanchor_44\">[44]</a> finding fault with those who think that those who have\r\nmany possessions are rich, speaks thus: “For the very rich to be also\r\ngood is impossible—those, I mean, whom the multitude count rich. Those\r\nthey call rich, who, among a few men, are owners of the possessions\r\nworth most money; which any bad man may possess.” “The whole world of\r\nwealth belongs to the believer,”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_45\" id=\"FNanchor_45\">[45]</a> Solomon says, “but not a penny to\r\nthe unbeliever.” Much more, then, is the scripture to be believed which\r\nsays, “It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than\r\nfor a rich man”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_46\" id=\"FNanchor_46\">[46]</a> to<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_14\">[14]</span> lead a philosophic life. But, on the other\r\nhand, it blesses “the poor;”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_47\" id=\"FNanchor_47\">[47]</a> as Plato understood when he said,\r\n“It is not the diminishing of one’s resources, but the augmenting of\r\ninsatiableness, that is to be considered poverty; for it is not slender\r\nmeans that ever constitutes poverty, but insatiableness, from which\r\nthe good man being free, will also be rich.” And in <i>Alcibiades</i>\r\nhe calls vice a servile thing, and virtue the attribute of freemen.\r\n“Take away from you the heavy yoke, and take up the easy one,”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_48\" id=\"FNanchor_48\">[48]</a> says\r\nthe Scripture; as also the poets call [vice] a slavish yoke. And the\r\nexpression, “Ye have sold yourselves to your sins,” agrees with what is\r\nsaid above: “Every one, then, who committeth sin is a slave; and the\r\nslave abideth not in the house for ever. But if the Son shall make you\r\nfree, then shall ye be free, and the truth shall make you free.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_49\" id=\"FNanchor_49\">[49]</a></p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK II.","CHAPTER V. 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