{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>But there is another unholy kiss, full of poison, counterfeiting\r\nsanctity. Do you not know that spiders, merely by touching the\r\nmouth, afflict men with pain? And often kisses inject the poison of\r\nlicentiousness. It is then very manifest to us, that a kiss is not\r\nlove. For the love meant is the love of God. “And this is the love\r\nof God,” says John, “that we keep His commandments;”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_748\" id=\"FNanchor_748\">[748]</a> not that\r\nwe stroke each other on the mouth. “And His commandments are not\r\ngrievous.” But salutations of beloved ones in the ways, full as they\r\nare of foolish boldness, are characteristic of those who wish to be\r\nconspicuous to those without, and have not the least particle of grace.\r\nFor if it is proper mystically “in the closet” to pray to God, it will\r\nfollow that we are also to greet mystically our neighbour, whom we are\r\ncommanded to love second similarly to God, within doors, “redeeming the\r\ntime.” “For we are the salt of the earth.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_749\" id=\"FNanchor_749\">[749]</a> “Whosoever shall bless\r\nhis friend early in the morning with a loud voice, it shall be regarded\r\nnot to differ from cursing.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_750\" id=\"FNanchor_750\">[750]</a></p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","THE INSTRUCTOR.","BOOK III.","CHAPTER XI. A COMPENDIOUS VIEW OF THE CHRISTIAN LIFE."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_749","paragraph_id":"pg71937-paragraph-613"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"987bbddf5df54537be0c74ae8ad443d1cb2807a32d01ba3891268b021720b79c","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1867,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"MAT","chapter":5,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Matt. v. 13","verse":13,"verse_end":13}],"headings":[],"id":"pg71937-Footnote_749","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_749","source_ebook":71937,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_749\" id=\"Footnote_749\">[749]</a> Matt. v. 13.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"8e5c5bc39922dbad2626ac7651c2eb2e3d94cdcbd721f781e9792143ebb1cd03","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/71937/pg71937-images.html#Footnote_749","text_sha256":"5ef1d324cb49590ffab56645d8b39cb947d1f93234111af3c945deba83f9b5bd","verified":false,"work_id":null}