{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>And let it not be this one man alone—Plato; but, O philosophy,\r\nhasten to produce many others also, who declare the only true God to\r\nbe God, through His inspiration, if in any measure they have grasped\r\nthe truth. For Antisthenes did not think out this doctrine of the\r\nCynics; but it is in virtue of his being a disciple of Socrates that\r\nhe says, “that God is not like to any; wherefore no one can know Him\r\nfrom an image.” And Xenophon the Athenian would have in his own person\r\ncommitted freely to writing somewhat of the truth, and given the same\r\ntestimony as Socrates, had he not been afraid of the cup of poison,\r\nwhich Socrates had to drink. But he hints nothing less; he says: “How\r\ngreat and powerful He is who moves all things, and is Himself at rest,\r\nis manifest; but what He is in form is not revealed. The sun himself,\r\nintended to be the source of light to all around,<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_72\">[72]</span> does not deem it\r\nfitting to allow himself to be looked at; but if any one audaciously\r\ngazes on him, he is deprived of sight.” Whence, then, does the son of\r\nGryllus learn his wisdom? Is it not manifestly from the prophetess of\r\nthe Hebrews,<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_67\" id=\"FNanchor_67\">[67]</a> who prophesies in the following style?—</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","EXHORTATION TO THE HEATHEN.","CHAPTER VI. BY DIVINE INSPIRATION PHILOSOPHERS SOMETIMES HIT ON THE TRUTH."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_67","paragraph_id":"pg71937-paragraph-170"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"8d3a70cda04213e3d4a9392e7a02d316a3487ac21a3c27268d1e657bcaa93283","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1867,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg71937-Footnote_67","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 1867 English translation; translator died 1875. Electronic transcription subject to Project Gutenberg reuse terms.","source_anchor":"Footnote_67","source_ebook":71937,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_67\" id=\"Footnote_67\">[67]</a> The <i>Sibyl</i>.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"8e5c5bc39922dbad2626ac7651c2eb2e3d94cdcbd721f781e9792143ebb1cd03","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/71937/pg71937-images.html#Footnote_67","text_sha256":"a2c7fb55326505038099cf612d58b94de47b939356f7e860fbad579c6b515b78","verified":false,"work_id":null}