{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Well, they preserving the tradition of the blessed doctrine derived\r\ndirectly from the holy apostles, Peter, James, John, and Paul, the son\r\nreceiving it from the father (but few were like the fathers), came by\r\nGod’s will to us also to deposit those ancestral and apostolic seeds.\r\nAnd well I know that they will exult; I do not mean delighted with\r\nthis tribute, but solely on account of the preservation of the truth,\r\naccording as they delivered it. For such a sketch as this, will, I\r\nthink, be agreeable to a soul desirous of preserving from escape the\r\nblessed tradition. “In a man who loves wisdom the Father will be\r\nglad.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_828\" id=\"FNanchor_828\">[828]</a> Wells, when<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_356\">[356]</span> pumped out, yield purer water; and that of\r\nwhich no one partakes, turns to putrefaction. Use keeps steel brighter,\r\nbut disuse produces rust in it. For, in a word, exercise produces a\r\nhealthy condition both in souls and bodies. “No one lighteth a candle,\r\nand putteth it under a bushel, but upon a candlestick, that it may give\r\nlight to those who are regarded worthy of the feast.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_829\" id=\"FNanchor_829\">[829]</a> For what is\r\nthe use of wisdom, if it makes not him who can hear it wise? For still\r\nthe Saviour saves, “and always works, as He sees the Father.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_830\" id=\"FNanchor_830\">[830]</a> For\r\nby teaching, one learns more; and in speaking, one is often a hearer\r\nalong with his audience. For the teacher of him who speaks and of him\r\nwho hears is one—who waters both the mind and the word. Thus the Lord\r\ndid not hinder from doing good while keeping the Sabbath; but allowed\r\nus to communicate of those divine mysteries, and of that holy light,\r\nto those who are able to receive them. He did not certainly disclose\r\nto the many what did not belong to the many; but to the few to whom\r\nHe knew that they belonged, who were capable of receiving and being\r\nmoulded according to them. But secret things are entrusted to speech,\r\nnot to writing, as is the case with God.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","THE MISCELLANIES.","BOOK I.","CHAPTER I. PREFACE—THE AUTHOR’S OBJECT—THE UTILITY OF WRITTEN COMPOSITIONS."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_828","paragraph_id":"pg71937-paragraph-665"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"69a8ca26c1fbd295af0e9f9f62498e7bd57ceda7294840f494a5f14ad6207cd9","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1867,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"PRO","chapter":29,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Prov. xxix. 3","verse":3,"verse_end":3}],"headings":[],"id":"pg71937-Footnote_828","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_828","source_ebook":71937,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_828\" id=\"Footnote_828\">[828]</a> Prov. xxix. 3.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"8e5c5bc39922dbad2626ac7651c2eb2e3d94cdcbd721f781e9792143ebb1cd03","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/71937/pg71937-images.html#Footnote_828","text_sha256":"9eb579d65937ea449ff6e34dd584190af8d7cbb950f9d0b959bfffa22aab58ac","verified":false,"work_id":null}