{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"drop-cap p-left\">This, then, “the wisdom of the world is foolishness with God,” and\r\nof those who are “the wise the Lord knoweth their thoughts that they\r\nare vain.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_895\" id=\"FNanchor_895\">[895]</a> Let no man therefore glory on account of pre-eminence\r\nin human thought. For it is written well in Jeremiah, “Let not the\r\nwise man glory in his wisdom, and let not the mighty man glory in his\r\nmight, and let not the rich man glory in his riches: but let him that\r\nglorieth glory in this, that he understandeth and knoweth that I am\r\nthe Lord, that executeth mercy and judgment and righteousness upon the\r\nearth: for in these things is my delight, saith the Lord.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_896\" id=\"FNanchor_896\">[896]</a> “That\r\nwe should trust not in ourselves, but in God who raiseth the dead,”\r\nsays the apostle, “who delivered us from so great a death, that our\r\nfaith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.”\r\n“For the spiritual man judgeth all things, but he himself is judged\r\nof no man.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_897\" id=\"FNanchor_897\">[897]</a> I hear also those words of his, “And these things I\r\nsay, lest any man should beguile you with enticing words, or one should\r\nenter in to spoil you.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_898\" id=\"FNanchor_898\">[898]</a> And again, “Beware lest any man spoil you\r\nthrough philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after\r\nthe rudiments of the world, and not after Christ;”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_899\" id=\"FNanchor_899\">[899]</a> branding not\r\nall philosophy, but the Epicurean, which Paul mentions in the Acts of\r\nthe Apostles,<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_900\" id=\"FNanchor_900\">[900]</a> which abolishes providence and deifies pleasure,\r\nand<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_385\">[385]</span> whatever other philosophy honours the elements, but places not\r\nover them the efficient cause, nor apprehends the Creator.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","THE MISCELLANIES.","BOOK I.","CHAPTER XI. WHAT IS THE PHILOSOPHY WHICH THE APOSTLE BIDS US SHUN?"],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_898","paragraph_id":"pg71937-paragraph-713"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"6cea748d724061ca88fe332463dc0c2c639bbd1b1dcbc9a5ed1d744894aee6f4","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1867,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"COL","chapter":2,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Col. ii. 4","verse":4,"verse_end":4}],"headings":[],"id":"pg71937-Footnote_898","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_898","source_ebook":71937,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_898\" id=\"Footnote_898\">[898]</a> Col. ii. 4, 8.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"8e5c5bc39922dbad2626ac7651c2eb2e3d94cdcbd721f781e9792143ebb1cd03","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/71937/pg71937-images.html#Footnote_898","text_sha256":"365960e2aaa34de194c1408961c923a0dc3f95f843269db78425bec362a3f19b","verified":false,"work_id":null}