{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>“I would never part with virtue for unrighteous gain.” But plainly,\r\nunrighteous gain is pleasure and pain, toil and fear; and, to speak\r\ncomprehensively, the passions of the soul, the present of which is\r\ndelightful, the future vexatious. “For what is the profit,” it is said,\r\n“if you gain the world and lose the soul?”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1104\" id=\"FNanchor_1104\">[1104]</a> It is clear, then,\r\nthat those who do not perform good actions, do not know what is for\r\ntheir own advantage. And if so, neither are they capable of<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_370\">[370]</span> praying\r\naright, so as to receive from God good things; nor, should they receive\r\nthem, will they be sensible of the boon; nor, should they enjoy them,\r\nwill they enjoy worthily what they know not; both from their want\r\nof knowledge how to use the good things given them, and from their\r\nexcessive stupidity, being ignorant of the way to avail themselves of\r\nthe divine gifts.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK VI.","CHAPTER XIV. DEGREES OF GLORY IN HEAVEN."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_1104","paragraph_id":"pg73020-paragraph-803"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"4e8e3afcb7e2b84404d47f8667173df3c8f14c461cb0503a7289f07ce9765b26","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"MAT","chapter":8,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Matt. viii. 26","verse":26,"verse_end":26},{"book":"MRK","chapter":8,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Mark viii. 36","verse":36,"verse_end":36},{"book":"LUK","chapter":9,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Luke ix. 25","verse":25,"verse_end":25}],"headings":[],"id":"pg73020-Footnote_1104","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_1104","source_ebook":73020,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_1104\" id=\"Footnote_1104\">[1104]</a> Matt. viii. 26; Mark viii. 36; Luke ix. 25.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"c35077683d75abe553cc6ef5d3ef5a1a978f07dfbcf4bad5c3d56302ad03dc19","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_1104","text_sha256":"9ed5627966e7c8b82965c2c610a4f2ecac0f090a963244b088c782df212a1503","verified":false,"work_id":null}