{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Come to this point, I recollect one who called himself a Gnostic.\r\nFor, expounding the words, “But I say unto you, he that looketh on\r\na woman to lust after, hath committed adultery,”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_620\" id=\"FNanchor_620\">[620]</a> he thought\r\nthat it was not bare desire that was condemned; but if through the\r\ndesire the act that results from it proceeding beyond the desire\r\nis accomplished in it. For dream employs phantasy and the body.\r\nAccordingly, the historians relate the following decision of Bocchoris\r\nthe just. A youth, falling in love with a courtezan, persuades the\r\ngirl, for a stipulated reward, to come to him next day. But his\r\ndesire being unexpectedly satiated, by laying hold of the girl in a\r\ndream, by anticipation, when the object of his love came according to\r\nstipulation, he prohibited her from coming in. But she, on learning\r\nwhat had taken place, demanded the reward, saying that in this way she\r\nhad sated the lover’s desire. They came accordingly to the judge. He,\r\nordering the youth to hold out the purse containing the reward in the\r\nsun, bade the courtezan take hold of the shadow; facetiously bidding\r\nhim pay the image of a reward for the image of an embrace.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK IV.","CHAPTER XVIII. ON LOVE, AND THE REPRESSING OF OUR DESIRES."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_620","paragraph_id":"pg73020-paragraph-242"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"9c22e10cf428fc4b74dadeb59734f92329f045efdaef5f43e11eb8ae84ba1203","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"MAT","chapter":5,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Matt. v. 28","verse":28,"verse_end":28}],"headings":[],"id":"pg73020-Footnote_620","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_620","source_ebook":73020,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_620\" id=\"Footnote_620\">[620]</a> Matt. v. 28.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"c35077683d75abe553cc6ef5d3ef5a1a978f07dfbcf4bad5c3d56302ad03dc19","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_620","text_sha256":"48417768c42745f973fc874d61e275bf8a2d8bcf0729729427e6f50509f09b21","verified":false,"work_id":null}