{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>This is the true athlete—he who in the great stadium, the fair world,\r\nis crowned for the true victory over all the passions. For He who\r\nprescribes the contest is the Almighty God, and He who awards the\r\nprize is the only-begotten Son of God. Angels and gods are spectators;\r\nand the contest, embracing all the varied exercises, is “not against\r\nflesh and blood,”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1215\" id=\"FNanchor_1215\">[1215]</a> but against the spiritual powers of inordinate\r\npassions that work through the flesh. He who obtains the mastery in\r\nthese struggles, and overthrows the tempter, menacing, as it were, with\r\ncertain contests, wins immortality. For the sentence of God in most\r\nrighteous judgment is infallible. The spectators<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1216\" id=\"FNanchor_1216\">[1216]</a> are summoned to\r\nthe contest, and the<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_420\">[420]</span> athletes contend in the stadium; the one, who has\r\nobeyed the directions of the trainer, wins the day. For to all, all\r\nrewards proposed by God are equal; and He Himself is unimpeachable.\r\nAnd he who has power receives mercy, and he that has exercised will is\r\nmighty.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK VII.","CHAPTER III. THE GNOSTIC AIMS AT THE NEAREST LIKENESS POSSIBLE TO GOD AND HIS SON."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_1215","paragraph_id":"pg73020-paragraph-950"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"7061182afcf767d2287f3bd1420af946e6a5567bb37790268124a3e6feccdde0","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"EPH","chapter":6,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Eph. vi. 12","verse":12,"verse_end":12}],"headings":[],"id":"pg73020-Footnote_1215","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_1215","source_ebook":73020,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_1215\" id=\"Footnote_1215\">[1215]</a> Eph. vi. 12.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"c35077683d75abe553cc6ef5d3ef5a1a978f07dfbcf4bad5c3d56302ad03dc19","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_1215","text_sha256":"022dd625c46f729f4cfe7cca45c8070d6c3a7db59f9a1d67c7b77148a3bbf0a4","verified":false,"work_id":null}