{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>So, then, the law sacrifices not the goat, except in the sole case\r\nof the banishment of sins;<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1235\" id=\"FNanchor_1235\">[1235]</a> since pleasure is the metropolis\r\nof vice. It is to the point also that it is said that the eating of\r\ngoat’s flesh contributes to epilepsy. And they say that the greatest\r\nincrease is produced by swine’s flesh. Wherefore it is beneficial to\r\nthose who exercise the body; but to those who devote themselves to\r\nthe development of the soul it is not so, on account of the hebetude\r\nthat results from the eating of flesh. Perchance also some Gnostic\r\nwill abstain from the eating of flesh for the sake of training, and in\r\norder that the flesh may not grow wanton in amorousness. “For wine,”\r\nsays Androcydes, “and gluttonous feeds of flesh make the body strong,\r\nbut the soul more sluggish.” Accordingly such food, in order to clear\r\nunderstanding, is to be rejected.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK VII.","CHAPTER VI. PRAYERS AND PRAISE FROM A PURE MIND, CEASELESSLY OFFERED, FAR BETTER THAN SACRIFICES."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_1235","paragraph_id":"pg73020-paragraph-994"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"96fa556d3fa25b7ce80f23b21de032b4ee82beb29c999ede48bd8ac2f6c31a6c","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_1235","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_1235","source_ebook":73020,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_1235\" id=\"Footnote_1235\">[1235]</a> <i>i.e.</i> in the institution of the scape-goat.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"c35077683d75abe553cc6ef5d3ef5a1a978f07dfbcf4bad5c3d56302ad03dc19","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_1235","text_sha256":"9cbec830120d1bdc59be748dd46a21c87b10a0820d785b0dd9a8247767a4c6f7","verified":false,"work_id":null}