{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>For Paul too, in the epistles, plainly does not disparage philosophy;\r\nbut deems it unworthy of the man who has attained to the elevation\r\nof the Gnostic, any more to go back to the Hellenic “philosophy,”\r\nfiguratively calling it “the rudiments of this world,”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1006\" id=\"FNanchor_1006\">[1006]</a> as being\r\nmost rudimentary, and a preparatory training for the truth. Wherefore\r\nalso, writing to the Hebrews, who were declining again from faith to\r\nthe law, he says, “Have ye not need again of one to teach you which are\r\nthe first principles of the oracles of God, and are become such as have\r\nneed of milk, and not of strong meat?”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1007\" id=\"FNanchor_1007\">[1007]</a> So also to the Colossians,\r\nwho were Greek converts, “Beware<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_340\">[340]</span> lest any man spoil you by philosophy\r\nand vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of\r\nthis world, and not after Christ,”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1008\" id=\"FNanchor_1008\">[1008]</a>—enticing them again to return\r\nto philosophy, the elementary doctrine.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK VI.","CHAPTER VIII. PHILOSOPHY IS KNOWLEDGE GIVEN BY GOD."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_1007","paragraph_id":"pg73020-paragraph-727"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"f1076d7f17b1569b8090ac6ae88d9856f1ecf80cefb765fecbaeaa2627230ea1","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"HEB","chapter":5,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Heb. v. 12","verse":12,"verse_end":12}],"headings":[],"id":"pg73020-Footnote_1007","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_1007","source_ebook":73020,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_1007\" id=\"Footnote_1007\">[1007]</a> Heb. v. 12.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"c35077683d75abe553cc6ef5d3ef5a1a978f07dfbcf4bad5c3d56302ad03dc19","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_1007","text_sha256":"74c1dcb9491743498025f0121494ee70164848f247a7d502fe3069b7792f3ec1","verified":false,"work_id":null}