{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>To those, then, who have repented and not firmly believed, God\r\ngrants their requests through their supplications. But to those who\r\nlive sinlessly and gnostically, He gives, when they have but merely\r\nentertained the thought. For example, to Anna, on her merely conceiving\r\nthe thought, conception was vouchsafed of the child Samuel.<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1071\" id=\"FNanchor_1071\">[1071]</a>\r\n“Ask,” says the Scripture, “and I will do. Think, and I will give.” For\r\nwe have heard that God knows the heart, not judging<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1072\" id=\"FNanchor_1072\">[1072]</a> the soul<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_363\">[363]</span>\r\nfrom [external] movement, as we men; nor yet from the event. For it is\r\nridiculous to think so. Nor was it as the architect praises the work\r\nwhen accomplished that God, on making the light and then seeing it,\r\ncalled it good. But He, knowing before He made it what it would be,\r\npraised that which was made, He having potentially made good, from the\r\nfirst by His purpose that had no beginning, what was destined to be\r\ngood actually. Now that which was future He already said beforehand\r\nwas good, the phrase concealing the truth by hyperbaton. Therefore the\r\nGnostic prays in thought during every hour, being by love allied to\r\nGod. And first he will ask forgiveness of sins; and after, that he may\r\nsin no more; and further, the power of well-doing and of comprehending\r\nthe whole creation and administration by the Lord, that, becoming pure\r\nin heart through the knowledge, which is by the Son of God, he may\r\nbe initiated into the beatific vision face to face, having heard the\r\nscripture which says, “Fasting with prayer is a good thing.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1073\" id=\"FNanchor_1073\">[1073]</a></p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK VI.","CHAPTER XII. HUMAN NATURE POSSESSES AN ADAPTATION FOR PERFECTION; THE GNOSTIC ALONE ATTAINS IT."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_1071","paragraph_id":"pg73020-paragraph-786"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"efa8715f3987aa2e3dd32f4979a10f5327e7025b7f61348b4e957b455f7825fc","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg73020-Footnote_1071","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_1071","source_ebook":73020,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_1071\" id=\"Footnote_1071\">[1071]</a> 1 Sam. i. 13.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"c35077683d75abe553cc6ef5d3ef5a1a978f07dfbcf4bad5c3d56302ad03dc19","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_1071","text_sha256":"d57fefd17de55cca16c52d4fb588cb61734f0da857b20ccc9e96621e99c45c55","verified":false,"work_id":null}