{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"p-left\">As slaves the Scripture views those “under sin” and “sold\r\nto sin,” the lovers of pleasure and of the body; and beasts rather\r\nthan men, “those who have become like to cattle, female-mad horses,\r\nneighing after their neighbours’ wives.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_495\" id=\"FNanchor_495\">[495]</a> The licentious is “the\r\nlustful ass,” the covetous is the “savage wolf,” and the deceiver is “a\r\nserpent.” The severance, therefore, of the soul from the body, made a\r\nlife-long study, produces<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_145\">[145]</span> in the philosopher gnostic alacrity, so that\r\nhe is easily able to bear natural death, which is the dissolution of\r\nthe chains which bind the soul to the body. “For the world is crucified\r\nto me, and I to the world,” the [apostle] says; “and now I live, though\r\nin the flesh, as having my conversation in heaven.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_496\" id=\"FNanchor_496\">[496]</a></p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK IV.","CHAPTER III. THE TRUE EXCELLENCE OF MAN."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_496","paragraph_id":"pg73020-paragraph-184"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"05b6c7ad40a09b83f2e95962440fc0df8e6d0c5247707f13ce2c5b4a34b30a33","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"GAL","chapter":6,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Gal. vi. 14","verse":14,"verse_end":14},{"book":"PHP","chapter":3,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Phil. iii. 20","verse":20,"verse_end":20}],"headings":[],"id":"pg73020-Footnote_496","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_496","source_ebook":73020,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_496\" id=\"Footnote_496\">[496]</a> Gal. vi. 14; Phil. iii. 20.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"c35077683d75abe553cc6ef5d3ef5a1a978f07dfbcf4bad5c3d56302ad03dc19","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_496","text_sha256":"b756acdad64d62bce5ad7b6c22c0a4ed3f239bec8b8fe2561b339ea2c629a5ba","verified":false,"work_id":null}