{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Fear is not then irrational. It is therefore rational. How could it be\r\notherwise, exhorting as it does, <i>Thou shalt not kill</i>, <i>Thou\r\nshalt not commit adultery</i>, <i>Thou shalt not steal</i>, <i>Thou\r\nshalt not bear false witness</i>? But if they will quibble about\r\nthe names, let the philosophers term the fear of the law, cautious\r\nfear, (εὐλάβεια,) which is a shunning (ἔκκλισις) agreeable to reason.\r\nSuch Critolaus of Phasela not inaptly called fighters about names\r\n(ὀνοματομάχοι). The commandment, then, has already appeared fair and\r\nlovely even in the highest degree, when conceived under a change of\r\nname.<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_21\">[21]</span> Cautious fear (εὐλάβεια) is therefore shown to be reasonable,\r\nbeing the shunning of what hurts; from which arises repentance for\r\nprevious sins. “For the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom;\r\ngood understanding is to all that do it.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_68\" id=\"FNanchor_68\">[68]</a> He calls wisdom a doing,\r\nwhich is the fear of the Lord paving the way for wisdom. But if the law\r\nproduces fear, the knowledge of the law is the beginning of wisdom;\r\nand a man is not wise without law. Therefore those who reject the law\r\nare unwise; and in consequence they are reckoned godless (ἄθεοι). Now\r\ninstruction is the beginning of wisdom. “But the ungodly despise wisdom\r\nand instruction,”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_69\" id=\"FNanchor_69\">[69]</a> saith the Scripture.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK II.","CHAPTER VII. THE UTILITY OF FEAR. OBJECTIONS ANSWERED."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_68","paragraph_id":"pg73020-paragraph-43"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"203a61da901c9a472617144deeb3cac8fe9b78a6f4183e5f25f5c6f65ee93791","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"PSA","chapter":111,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Ps. cxi. 10","verse":10,"verse_end":10}],"headings":[],"id":"pg73020-Footnote_68","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_68","source_ebook":73020,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_68\" id=\"Footnote_68\">[68]</a> Ps. cxi. 10.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"c35077683d75abe553cc6ef5d3ef5a1a978f07dfbcf4bad5c3d56302ad03dc19","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_68","text_sha256":"adfe946b9a4d0a3737fae7e0fdf21a4f7bb1474f828c2ecb119cc50eb82a9d38","verified":false,"work_id":null}