{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Human art, moreover, produces houses, and ships, and cities, and\r\npictures. But how shall I tell what God makes? Behold the whole\r\nuniverse; it is His work: and the heaven, and the sun, and angels, and\r\nmen, are the works of His fingers.<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_63\" id=\"FNanchor_63\">[63]</a> How great is the power of God!\r\nHis bare volition was the creation of the universe. For God alone made\r\nit, because He alone is truly God. By the bare exercise of volition He\r\ncreates; His mere willing was followed by the springing into being of\r\nwhat He willed. Consequently the choir of philosophers are in error,\r\nwho indeed most nobly confess that man was made for the contemplation\r\nof the heavens, but who worship the objects that appear in the heavens\r\nand are apprehended by sight. For if the heavenly bodies are not the\r\nworks of men, they were certainly created for man. Let none of you\r\nworship the sun, but set his desires on the Maker of the sun; nor deify\r\nthe universe, but seek after the Creator of the universe. The only\r\nrefuge, then, which remains for him who would reach the portals of\r\nsalvation is divine wisdom. From this, as from a sacred asylum, the man\r\nwho presses after salvation, can be dragged by no demon.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","EXHORTATION TO THE HEATHEN.","CHAPTER IV. THE ABSURDITY AND SHAMEFULNESS OF THE IMAGES BY WHICH THE GODS ARE WORSHIPPED."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_63","paragraph_id":"pg71937-paragraph-158"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"a5549dc1410c96bfd26c7eda1f60893afb44c43d5553e8540067a938fb88ca2d","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1867,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"PSA","chapter":8,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Ps. viii. 4","verse":4,"verse_end":4}],"headings":[],"id":"pg71937-Footnote_63","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 1867 English translation; translator died 1875. Electronic transcription subject to Project Gutenberg reuse terms.","source_anchor":"Footnote_63","source_ebook":71937,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_63\" id=\"Footnote_63\">[63]</a> Ps. viii. 4.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"8e5c5bc39922dbad2626ac7651c2eb2e3d94cdcbd721f781e9792143ebb1cd03","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/71937/pg71937-images.html#Footnote_63","text_sha256":"88eeb243e8dbeac36e66a0b33fbde88dcf32fc26f7f8232d4ea3af58c74ceab4","verified":false,"work_id":null}