{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Reason, the governing principle, remaining unmoved and guiding the\r\nsoul, is called its pilot. For access to the Immutable is obtained by\r\na truly immutable means. Thus Abraham was stationed before the Lord,\r\nand approaching spoke.<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_111\" id=\"FNanchor_111\">[111]</a> And to Moses it is said, “But do thou\r\nstand there<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_33\">[33]</span> with me.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_112\" id=\"FNanchor_112\">[112]</a> And the followers of Simon wish to be\r\nassimilated in manners to the standing form which they adore. Faith,\r\ntherefore, and the knowledge of the truth, render the soul, which makes\r\nthem its choice, always uniform and equable. For congenial to the man\r\nof falsehood is shifting, and change, and turning away, as to the\r\nGnostic are calmness, and rest, and peace. As, then, philosophy has\r\nbeen brought into evil repute by pride and self-conceit, so also gnosis\r\nby false gnosis called by the same name; of which the apostle writing\r\nsays, “O Timothy, keep that which is committed to thy trust, avoiding\r\nthe profane and vain babblings and oppositions of science (gnosis)\r\nfalsely so called; which some professing, have erred concerning the\r\nfaith.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_113\" id=\"FNanchor_113\">[113]</a></p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK II.","CHAPTER XI. THE KNOWLEDGE WHICH COMES THROUGH FAITH THE SUREST OF ALL."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_111","paragraph_id":"pg73020-paragraph-58"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"10d9fb9352a9d98680d94b519b69d7e35b119c35380885eac9f32604e6991da5","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"GEN","chapter":18,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Gen. xviii. 22","verse":22,"verse_end":22}],"headings":[],"id":"pg73020-Footnote_111","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_111","source_ebook":73020,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_111\" id=\"Footnote_111\">[111]</a> Gen. xviii. 22, 23.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"c35077683d75abe553cc6ef5d3ef5a1a978f07dfbcf4bad5c3d56302ad03dc19","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_111","text_sha256":"940b62f7c146570935f3b03196619adf445444a0924f0c840b3149e94ad3e5cd","verified":false,"work_id":null}