{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Again, on the other hand, we may hear: “For in His hand, that is,\r\nin His power and wisdom, are both we and our words, and all wisdom\r\nand skill in works; for God loves nothing but the man that dwells\r\nwith wisdom.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1056\" id=\"FNanchor_1056\">[1056]</a> And again, they have not read what is said by\r\nSolomon; for, treating of the construction of the temple, he says\r\nexpressly, “And it was Wisdom as artificer that framed it; and Thy\r\nprovidence, O Father, governs throughout.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1057\" id=\"FNanchor_1057\">[1057]</a> And how irrational,\r\nto regard philosophy as inferior to architecture and shipbuilding!\r\nAnd the Lord fed the multitude of those that reclined on the grass\r\nopposite to Tiberias with the two fishes and the five barley loaves,\r\nindicating the preparatory training of the Greeks and Jews previous\r\nto the divine grain, which is the food cultivated by the law. For\r\nbarley is sooner ripe for the harvest than wheat; and the fishes\r\nsignified the Hellenic philosophy that was produced and moved in the\r\nmidst of the Gentile billow, given, as they were, for copious food to\r\nthose lying on the ground, increasing no more, like the fragments of\r\nthe loaves, but having partaken of the Lord’s blessing, had breathed\r\ninto them the resurrection of Godhead<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1058\" id=\"FNanchor_1058\">[1058]</a> through the power of the\r\nWord. But if you are curious, understand one of the fishes to mean the\r\ncurriculum of study, and the other the philosophy which supervenes. The\r\ngatherings<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1059\" id=\"FNanchor_1059\">[1059]</a> point out the word of the Lord.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK VI.","CHAPTER XI. THE MYSTICAL MEANINGS IN THE PROPORTIONS OF NUMBERS, GEOMETRICAL RATIOS, AND MUSIC."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_1057","paragraph_id":"pg73020-paragraph-774"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"2d57e1e8c1096b5fa5d2d2d4b492584b233ec4b00a2c03969ffd00f55ed0c79b","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_1057","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_1057","source_ebook":73020,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_1057\" id=\"Footnote_1057\">[1057]</a> Wisd. xiv. 2, 3.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"c35077683d75abe553cc6ef5d3ef5a1a978f07dfbcf4bad5c3d56302ad03dc19","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_1057","text_sha256":"0311bca872726d6c87abcd56ee00f3e9f02d80399e64e1634c2eafd35479387a","verified":false,"work_id":null}