{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"drop-cap p-left\">Whence the law was rightly said to have been given by Moses, being a\r\nrule of right and wrong; and we may call it with accuracy the divine\r\nordinance (θεσμος<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1058\" id=\"FNanchor_1058\">[1058]</a>), inasmuch as it was given by God through\r\nMoses. It accordingly conducts to the divine. Paul says: “The law was\r\ninstituted because of transgressions, till the seed should come, to\r\nwhom the promise was made.” Then, as if in explanation of his meaning,\r\nhe adds: “But before faith came, we were kept under the law, shut up,”\r\nmanifestly through fear, in consequence of sins, “unto the faith which\r\nshould afterwards be revealed; so that the law was a schoolmaster\r\nto bring us to Christ, that we should be justified by faith.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1059\" id=\"FNanchor_1059\">[1059]</a>\r\nThe true legislator is he who assigns to each department of the soul\r\nwhat is suitable to it and to its operations. Now Moses, to speak\r\ncomprehensively, was a living law, governed by the benign Word.\r\nAccordingly, he furnished a good polity, which is the right discipline\r\nof men in social life. He also handled the administration of justice,\r\nwhich is that branch of knowledge which deals with the correction of\r\ntransgressors in the interests of justice. Co-ordinate with it is the\r\nfaculty of dealing with punishments, which is a knowledge of the due\r\nmeasure to be observed in punishments. And punishment, in virtue of its\r\nbeing so, is the correction of the soul. In a word, the whole system of\r\nMoses is suited for the training of such as are<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_462\">[462]</span> capable of becoming\r\ngood and noble men, and for hunting out men like them; and this is the\r\nart of command. And that wisdom, which is capable of treating rightly\r\nthose who have been caught by the Word, is legislative wisdom. For it\r\nis the property of this wisdom, being most kingly, to possess and use.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","THE MISCELLANIES.","BOOK I.","CHAPTER XXVI. MOSES RIGHTLY CALLED A DIVINE LEGISLATOR, AND, THOUGH INFERIOR TO CHRIST, FAR SUPERIOR TO THE GREAT LEGISLATORS OF THE GREEKS, MINOS AND LYCURGUS."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_1058","paragraph_id":"pg71937-paragraph-831"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"0b38545e57acac6b3de9ab24ffea8ee0dec5b9125055f1d217625f3438992dd3","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1867,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg71937-Footnote_1058","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_1058","source_ebook":71937,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_1058\" id=\"Footnote_1058\">[1058]</a> From the ancient derivation of this word from θεός.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"8e5c5bc39922dbad2626ac7651c2eb2e3d94cdcbd721f781e9792143ebb1cd03","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/71937/pg71937-images.html#Footnote_1058","text_sha256":"b51dcd2926c63ea154429bd3f49d86904612ebb337e0a68046660c61bb6e648a","verified":false,"work_id":null}