{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>This, then, is the type of “the law and the prophets which were until\r\nJohn;”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_784\" id=\"FNanchor_784\">[784]</a> while he, though speaking more perspicuously as no longer\r\nprophesying, but pointing out as now present, Him, who was proclaimed\r\nsymbolically from the beginning,<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_254\">[254]</span> nevertheless said, “I am not worthy\r\nto loose the latchet of the Lord’s shoe.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_785\" id=\"FNanchor_785\">[785]</a> For he confesses that he\r\nis not worthy to baptize so great a Power; for it behoves those, who\r\npurify others, to free the soul from the body and its sins, as the foot\r\nfrom the thong. Perhaps also this signified the final exertion of the\r\nSaviour’s power toward us—the immediate, I mean—that by His presence,\r\nconcealed in the enigma of prophecy, inasmuch as he, by pointing out\r\nto sight Him that had been prophesied of, and indicating the Presence\r\nwhich had come, walking forth into the light, loosed the latchet of the\r\noracles of the [old] economy, by unveiling the meaning of the symbols.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK V.","CHAPTER VIII. THE USE OF THE SYMBOLIC STYLE BY POETS AND PHILOSOPHERS."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_785","paragraph_id":"pg73020-paragraph-381"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"d9f83d185b7f5fb0637f7e7c6f1b804a9a6dc79c7bb2aff5f8be7b482c70992e","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"MRK","chapter":1,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Mark i. 7","verse":7,"verse_end":7},{"book":"LUK","chapter":3,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Luke iii. 16","verse":16,"verse_end":16},{"book":"JHN","chapter":1,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"John i. 27","verse":27,"verse_end":27}],"headings":[],"id":"pg73020-Footnote_785","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_785","source_ebook":73020,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_785\" id=\"Footnote_785\">[785]</a> Mark i. 7; Luke iii. 16; John i. 27.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"c35077683d75abe553cc6ef5d3ef5a1a978f07dfbcf4bad5c3d56302ad03dc19","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_785","text_sha256":"fa696e65376831900c9e355bfcb9c3bf58d46dd496d927c123f0acd99a18dcd9","verified":false,"work_id":null}