{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>As, then, the virtues follow one another, why need I say what has\r\nbeen demonstrated already, that faith hopes through repentance, and\r\nfear through faith; and patience and practice in these along with\r\nlearning terminate in love, which is perfected by knowledge? But that\r\nis necessarily to be noticed, that the Divine alone is to be regarded\r\nas naturally wise. Therefore also wisdom, which has taught the truth,\r\nis the power of God; and in it the perfection of knowledge is embraced.\r\nThe philosopher loves and likes the truth, being now considered as a\r\nfriend, on account of his love, from his being a true servant. The\r\nbeginning of knowledge is wondering at objects, as Plato says in his\r\n<i>Theætetus</i>; and Matthew exhorting in the <i>Traditions</i>,\r\nsays, “Wonder at what is before you;” laying this down first as the\r\nfoundation of further knowledge. So also in the Gospel to the Hebrews\r\nit is written, “He that wonders shall reign, and he that has reigned\r\nshall rest.” It is impossible, therefore, for an ignorant<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_29\">[29]</span> man, while\r\nhe remains ignorant, to philosophize, not having apprehended the idea\r\nof wisdom; since philosophy is an effort to grasp that which truly is,\r\nand the studies that conduce thereto. And it is not the rendering of\r\none<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_97\" id=\"FNanchor_97\">[97]</a> accomplished in good habits of conduct, but the knowing how\r\nwe are to use and act and labour, according as one is assimilated to\r\nGod. I mean God the Saviour, by serving the God of the universe through\r\nthe High Priest, the Word, by whom what is in truth good and right is\r\nbeheld. Piety is conduct suitable and corresponding to God.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK II.","CHAPTER IX. THE CONNECTION OF THE CHRISTIAN VIRTUES."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_97","paragraph_id":"pg73020-paragraph-54"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"e0727c38ced1370d564f376123585e470dadd7f738d575f78ab0052cf4414143","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg73020-Footnote_97","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_97","source_ebook":73020,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_97\" id=\"Footnote_97\">[97]</a> This clause is hopelessly corrupt: the text is utterly\r\nunintelligible, and the emendation of Sylburgius is adopted in the\r\ntranslation.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"c35077683d75abe553cc6ef5d3ef5a1a978f07dfbcf4bad5c3d56302ad03dc19","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_97","text_sha256":"e5f6f9cce42995b8d0cd2efcaa544c4510381bb7b754be866160d9bda97bdf36","verified":false,"work_id":null}