{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>But to those miserable men, witness to the Lord by blood seems a most\r\nviolent death, not knowing that such a gate of death is the beginning\r\nof the true life; and they will understand neither the honours after\r\ndeath, which belong to those who have lived holily, nor the punishments\r\nof those who have lived unrighteously and impurely. I do not say only\r\nfrom our Scriptures (for almost all the commandments indicate them);\r\nbut they will not even hear their own discourses. For the Pythagorean\r\nTheano writes, “Life were indeed a feast to the wicked, who, having\r\ndone evil, then die; were not the soul immortal, death would be a\r\ngodsend.” And Plato in the <i>Phædo</i>, “For if death were release\r\nfrom everything,” and so forth. We are not then to think according to\r\nthe <i>Telephus</i> of Æschylus, “that a single path leads to Hades.”\r\nThe ways are many, and the sins that lead thither. Such deeply erring\r\nones as the unfaithful are, Aristophanes properly makes the subjects\r\nof comedy. “Come,” he says,<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_160\">[160]</span> “ye men of obscure life, ye that are like\r\nthe race of leaves, feeble, wax figures, shadowy tribes, evanescent,\r\nfleeting, ephemeral.” And Epicharmus, “This nature of men is inflated\r\nskins.” And the Saviour has said to us, “The spirit is willing, but the\r\nflesh is weak.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_534\" id=\"FNanchor_534\">[534]</a> “Because the carnal mind is enmity against God,”\r\nexplains the apostle: “for it is not subject to the law of God, neither\r\nindeed can be. And they that are in the flesh cannot please God.”\r\nAnd in further explanation continues, that no one may, like Marcion,\r\nregard the creature as evil. “But if Christ be in you, the body is dead\r\nbecause of sin; but the Spirit is life because of righteousness.” And\r\nagain: “For if ye live after the flesh, ye shall die. For I reckon that\r\nthe sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared to\r\nthe glory which shall be revealed in us. If we suffer with Him, that we\r\nalso may be glorified together as joint-heirs of Christ. And we know\r\nthat all things work together for good to them that love God, to them\r\nthat are called according to the purpose. For whom He did foreknow,\r\nHe also did predestinate to be conformed to the image of His Son,\r\nthat He might be the first-born among many brethren. And whom He did\r\npredestinate, them He also called; and whom He called, them He also\r\njustified; and whom He justified, them He also glorified.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_535\" id=\"FNanchor_535\">[535]</a></p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK IV.","CHAPTER VII. THE BLESSEDNESS OF THE MARTYR."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_534","paragraph_id":"pg73020-paragraph-205"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"3ec19becc7b60aa3fff41c0d2f63edbb1f5a0e2ef56439e1f105a0f73c61ab03","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":26,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Matt. xxvi. 41","verse":41,"verse_end":41}],"headings":[],"id":"pg73020-Footnote_534","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_534","source_ebook":73020,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_534\" id=\"Footnote_534\">[534]</a> Matt. xxvi. 41.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"c35077683d75abe553cc6ef5d3ef5a1a978f07dfbcf4bad5c3d56302ad03dc19","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_534","text_sha256":"9b2ed95ecb757f2fd445010eb697955850d69e57eace5ffddcbb4880b3b99e8f","verified":false,"work_id":null}