{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Again, he commands to eat that which parts the hoof and<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_252\">[252]</span> ruminates;\r\n“intimating,” says Barnabas, “that we ought to cleave to those who fear\r\nthe Lord, and meditate in their heart on that portion of the word which\r\nthey have received, to those who speak and keep the Lord’s statutes,\r\nto those to whom meditation is a work of gladness, and who ruminate on\r\nthe word of the Lord. And what is the parted hoof? That the righteous\r\nwalks in this world, and expects the holy eternity to come.” Then he\r\nadds, “See how well Moses enacted. But whence could they understand\r\nor comprehend these things? We who have rightly understood speak the\r\ncommandments as the Lord wished; wherefore He circumcised our ears and\r\nhearts, that we may comprehend these things. And when he says, ‘Thou\r\nshalt not eat the eagle, the hawk, the kite, and the crow;’ he says,\r\n‘Thou shalt not adhere to or become like those men who know not how\r\nto procure for themselves subsistence by toil and sweat, but live by\r\nplunder, and lawlessly.’ For the eagle indicates robbery, the hawk\r\ninjustice, and the raven greed. It is also written, ‘With the innocent\r\nman thou wilt be innocent, and with the chosen choice, and with the\r\nperverse thou shalt pervert.’<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_780\" id=\"FNanchor_780\">[780]</a> It is incumbent on us to cleave to\r\nthe saints, because they that cleave to them shall be sanctified.”</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_780","paragraph_id":"pg73020-paragraph-378"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"b7c93c400dcdfb81e2722331848c272bcffdd9095c74f2e3d14f2db46022d48f","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":17,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Ps. xvii. 25","verse":25,"verse_end":25}],"headings":[],"id":"pg73020-Footnote_780","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_780","source_ebook":73020,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_780\" id=\"Footnote_780\">[780]</a> Ps. xvii. 25, 26.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"c35077683d75abe553cc6ef5d3ef5a1a978f07dfbcf4bad5c3d56302ad03dc19","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_780","text_sha256":"4a0995931d03e52df3041f91eeec261833f27ca47a0c826afad4396a603833a9","verified":false,"work_id":null}