{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>But one man applies less, one more, to learning and training. Wherefore\r\nalso some have been competent to attain to perfect virtue, and others\r\nhave attained to a kind of it. And some, on the other hand, through\r\nnegligence, although in other respects of good dispositions, have\r\nturned to the opposite. Now much more is that knowledge which excels\r\nall branches of culture in greatness and in truth, most difficult to\r\nacquire, and is attained with much toil. “But, as seems, they know not\r\nthe mysteries of God. For God created man for immortality, and made him\r\nan image of His own nature;”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1066\" id=\"FNanchor_1066\">[1066]</a> according to which nature of Him who\r\nknows all, he who is a Gnostic, and righteous, and holy with prudence,\r\nhastes to reach the measure of perfect manhood. For not only are\r\nactions and thoughts, but words also, pure in the case of the Gnostic:\r\n“Thou hast proved mine heart; Thou hast visited me by night,” it is\r\nsaid; “Thou hast subjected me to the fire, and unrighteousness was not\r\nfound in me: so that my mouth shall not speak the works of men.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1067\" id=\"FNanchor_1067\">[1067]</a></p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK VI.","CHAPTER XII. HUMAN NATURE POSSESSES AN ADAPTATION FOR PERFECTION; THE GNOSTIC ALONE ATTAINS IT."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_1067","paragraph_id":"pg73020-paragraph-781"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"90bde23af8e7cbeb2cede25574e79fcfa8a502b5aca1baf7fbbf39f96890933d","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"PSA","chapter":17,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Ps. xvii. 3","verse":3,"verse_end":3}],"headings":[],"id":"pg73020-Footnote_1067","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_1067","source_ebook":73020,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_1067\" id=\"Footnote_1067\">[1067]</a> Ps. xvii. 3, 4.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"c35077683d75abe553cc6ef5d3ef5a1a978f07dfbcf4bad5c3d56302ad03dc19","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_1067","text_sha256":"4f4cf3beb4a0734edb86ac8b0b8fd3c5393bba85c0324725f8bb94bcb5c95411","verified":false,"work_id":null}