{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"drop-cap p-left\">The use of crowns and ointments is not necessary for us; for it impels\r\nto pleasures and indulgences, especially on the approach of night. I\r\nknow that the woman brought to the sacred supper “an alabaster box of\r\nointment,”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_541\" id=\"FNanchor_541\">[541]</a> and anointed the feet of the Lord, and refreshed Him;\r\nand I know that the ancient kings of the Hebrews were crowned with gold\r\nand precious stones. But the woman not having yet received the Word\r\n(for she was still a sinner), honoured the Lord with what she thought\r\nthe most precious thing in her possession—the ointment; and with the\r\nornament of her person, with her hair, she wiped off the superfluous\r\nointment, while she expended on the Lord tears of repentance:\r\n“wherefore her sins are forgiven.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_542\" id=\"FNanchor_542\">[542]</a></p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","THE INSTRUCTOR.","BOOK II.","CHAPTER VIII. ON THE USE OF OINTMENTS AND CROWNS."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_542","paragraph_id":"pg71937-paragraph-404"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"f423dd10b757579c6a67911c4adc836721dbc5ffd328c3b22167a1d7f2ab448f","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1867,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"LUK","chapter":7,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Luke vii. 47","verse":47,"verse_end":47}],"headings":[],"id":"pg71937-Footnote_542","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_542","source_ebook":71937,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_542\" id=\"Footnote_542\">[542]</a> Luke vii. 47.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"8e5c5bc39922dbad2626ac7651c2eb2e3d94cdcbd721f781e9792143ebb1cd03","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/71937/pg71937-images.html#Footnote_542","text_sha256":"7d1da7aa89c86d5de137280000301fd62ad29011f3dd2dd2a90fde0df6050924","verified":false,"work_id":null}