{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>And what? Does he not also know the other kind of sacrifice, which\r\nconsists in the giving both of doctrines and of money to those who\r\nneed? Assuredly. But he does not use wordy prayer by his mouth;\r\nhaving learned to ask of the Lord what is requisite. In every place,\r\ntherefore, but not ostensibly and visibly to the multitude, he will\r\npray. But while engaged in walking, in conversation, while in silence,\r\nwhile engaged in reading and in works according to reason, he in every\r\nmood prays. If he but form the thought in the secret chamber of his\r\nsoul, and call on the Father “with unspoken groanings,”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1242\" id=\"FNanchor_1242\">[1242]</a> He is\r\nnear, and is at his side, while yet speaking. Inasmuch as there are but\r\nthree ends of all action, he does everything for its excellence and\r\nutility; but doing aught for the sake of pleasure,<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1243\" id=\"FNanchor_1243\">[1243]</a> he leaves to\r\nthose who pursue the common life.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK VII.","CHAPTER VII. WHAT SORT OF PRAYER THE GNOSTIC EMPLOYS, AND HOW IT IS HEARD BY GOD."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_1243","paragraph_id":"pg73020-paragraph-1032"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"fa8c7c640ba8a17b5819955855f936ffb4a9719fc146dad58d41302ee3c32e91","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_1243","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_1243","source_ebook":73020,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_1243\" id=\"Footnote_1243\">[1243]</a> τὸ δὲ ἐπιτελεῖν διὰ τὸν δύσοιστον κοινὸν βίον is the\r\nreading of the text; which Potter amends, so as to bring out what is\r\nplainly the idea of the author, the reference to pleasure as the third\r\nend of actions, and the end pursued by ordinary men, by changing διά\r\ninto ἡδέα, which is simple, and leaves δύσοιστον (intolerable) to\r\nstand. Sylburgius notes that the Latin translator renders as if he read\r\nδιὰ τὴν ἡδονήν, which is adopted above.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"c35077683d75abe553cc6ef5d3ef5a1a978f07dfbcf4bad5c3d56302ad03dc19","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_1243","text_sha256":"a1f6e2a0de2d78b9cdb3e3081e9e2c365f0aa2a7ef49e45073924515ae21e07a","verified":false,"work_id":null}