{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>I cannot help admiring in every particular that divine utterance:\r\n“Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_273\">[273]</span> not in by the\r\ndoor into the sheepfold, but climbeth up some other way, the same\r\nis a thief and a robber. But he that entereth in by the door is the\r\nshepherd of the sheep. To him the porter openeth.” Then the Lord says\r\nin explanation, “I am the door of the sheep.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_834\" id=\"FNanchor_834\">[834]</a> Men must then\r\nbe saved by learning the truth through Christ, even if they attain\r\nphilosophy. For now that is clearly shown “which was not made known to\r\nother ages, which is now revealed to the sons of men.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_835\" id=\"FNanchor_835\">[835]</a> For there\r\nwas always a natural manifestation of the one Almighty God, among all\r\nright-thinking men; and the most, who had not quite divested themselves\r\nof shame with respect to the truth, apprehended the eternal beneficence\r\nin divine providence. In fine, then, Xenocrates the Chalcedonian was\r\nnot quite without hope that the notion of the Divinity existed even in\r\nthe irrational creatures. And Democritus, though against his will, will\r\nmake this avowal by the consequences of his dogmas; for he represents\r\nthe same images as issuing, from the divine essence, on men and on the\r\nirrational animals. Far from destitute of a divine idea is man, who,\r\nit is written in Genesis, partook of inspiration, being endowed with a\r\npurer essence than the other animate creatures. Hence the Pythagoreans\r\nsay that mind comes to man by divine providence, as Plato and Aristotle\r\navow; but we assert that the Holy Spirit inspires him who has believed.\r\nThe Platonists hold that mind is an effluence of divine dispensation in\r\nthe soul, and they place the soul in the body. For it is expressly said\r\nby Joel, one of the twelve prophets, “And it shall come to pass after\r\nthese things, I will pour out of my Spirit on all flesh, and your sons\r\nand your daughters shall prophesy.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_836\" id=\"FNanchor_836\">[836]</a> But it is not as a portion\r\nof God that the Spirit is in each of us. But how this dispensation\r\ntakes place, and what the Holy Spirit is, shall be shown by us in the\r\nbooks on prophecy, and in those on the soul. But “incredulity is good\r\nat concealing the depths of knowledge,” according to Heraclitus; “for\r\nincredulity escapes from ignorance.”</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK V.","CHAPTER XIII. THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD A DIVINE GIFT, ACCORDING TO THE PHILOSOPHERS."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_834","paragraph_id":"pg73020-paragraph-424"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"be459a1d12c75909baff54770b9017037570d82c62ebb74b3e67da6fad522332","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"JHN","chapter":10,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"John x. 1–3","verse":1,"verse_end":3}],"headings":[],"id":"pg73020-Footnote_834","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_834","source_ebook":73020,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_834\" id=\"Footnote_834\">[834]</a> John x. 1–3, 7.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"c35077683d75abe553cc6ef5d3ef5a1a978f07dfbcf4bad5c3d56302ad03dc19","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_834","text_sha256":"d1d9f1778cfd5b73355fa37312a9fd8fd952f8bc00cd539c656a72a206120054","verified":false,"work_id":null}