{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>But the knowledge of those who think themselves wise, whether the\r\nbarbarian sects or the philosophers among the Greeks, according to\r\nthe apostle, “puffeth up.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_102\" id=\"FNanchor_102\">[102]</a> But that knowledge, which is the\r\nscientific demonstration of what is delivered according to the true\r\nphilosophy, is founded on faith. Now, we may say that it is that\r\nprocess of reason which, from what is admitted, procures faith in what\r\nis disputed. Now, faith being twofold—the faith of knowledge and that\r\nof opinion—nothing prevents us from calling demonstration twofold, the\r\none resting on knowledge, the other on opinion; since also knowledge\r\nand foreknowledge are designated as twofold, that which is essentially\r\naccurate, that which is defective. And is not the demonstration, which\r\nwe possess, that alone which is true, as being supplied out of the\r\ndivine Scriptures, the sacred writings, and out of the “God-taught\r\nwisdom,” according to the apostle? Learning, then, is also obedience<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_31\">[31]</span>\r\nto the commandments, which is faith in God. And faith is a power of\r\nGod, being the strength of the truth. For example, it is said, “If ye\r\nhave faith as a grain of mustard, ye shall remove the mountain.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_103\" id=\"FNanchor_103\">[103]</a>\r\nAnd again, “According to thy faith let it be to thee.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_104\" id=\"FNanchor_104\">[104]</a> And one\r\nis cured, receiving healing by faith; and the dead is raised up in\r\nconsequence of the power of one believing that he would be raised. The\r\ndemonstration, however, which rests on opinion is human, and is the\r\nresult of rhetorical arguments or dialectic syllogisms. For the highest\r\ndemonstration, to which we have alluded, produces intelligent faith by\r\nthe adducing and opening up of the Scriptures to the souls of those\r\nwho desire to learn; the result of which is knowledge (<i>gnosis</i>).\r\nFor if what is adduced in order to prove the point at issue is assumed\r\nto be true, as being divine and prophetic, manifestly the conclusion\r\narrived at by inference from it will consequently be inferred truly;\r\nand the legitimate result of the demonstration will be knowledge. When,\r\nthen, the memorial of the celestial and divine food was commanded to be\r\nconsecrated in the golden pot, it was said, “The omer was the tenth of\r\nthe three measures.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_105\" id=\"FNanchor_105\">[105]</a> For in ourselves, by the three measures are\r\nindicated three criteria; sensation of objects of sense, speech,—of\r\nspoken names and words, and the mind,—of intellectual objects. The\r\nGnostic, therefore, will abstain from errors in speech, and thought,\r\nand sensation, and action, having heard “that he that looks so as to\r\nlust hath committed adultery;”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_106\" id=\"FNanchor_106\">[106]</a> and reflecting that “blessed are\r\nthe pure in heart, for they shall see God;”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_107\" id=\"FNanchor_107\">[107]</a> and knowing this,\r\n“that not what enters into the mouth defileth, but that it is what\r\ncometh forth by the mouth that defileth the man. For out of the heart\r\nproceed thoughts.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_108\" id=\"FNanchor_108\">[108]</a> This, as I think, is the true and just measure\r\naccording to God, by which things capable of measurement are measured,\r\nthe decad which is comprehensive of man; which summarily the three\r\nabove-mentioned measures pointed out. There are<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_32\">[32]</span> body and soul, the\r\nfive senses, speech, the power of reproduction—the intellectual or\r\nthe spiritual faculty, or whatever you choose to call it. And we must,\r\nin a word, ascending above all the others, stop at the mind; as also\r\ncertainly in the universe overleaping the nine divisions, the first\r\nconsisting of the four elements put in one place for equal interchange;\r\nand then the seven wandering stars and the one that wanders not,\r\nthe ninth, to the perfect number, which is above the nine,<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_109\" id=\"FNanchor_109\">[109]</a> and\r\nthe tenth division, we must reach to the knowledge of God, to speak\r\nbriefly, desiring the Maker after the creation. Wherefore the tithes\r\nboth of the ephah and of the sacrifices were presented to God; and the\r\npaschal feast began with the tenth day, being the transition from all\r\ntrouble, and from all objects of sense.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK II.","CHAPTER XI. 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