{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>But since they will believe neither in what is good justly nor in\r\nknowledge unto salvation, we ourselves reckoning what they claim as\r\nbelonging to us, because all things are God’s; and especially since\r\nwhat is good proceeded from us to the Greeks, let us handle those\r\nthings as they are capable of hearing. For intelligence or rectitude\r\nthis great crowd estimates not by truth, but by what they are delighted\r\nwith. And they will be pleased not more with other things than with\r\nwhat is like themselves. For he who is still blind and dumb, not having\r\nunderstanding, or the undazzled and keen vision of the contemplative\r\nsoul, which the Saviour confers, like the uninitiated at the mysteries,\r\nor the unmusical at dances, not being yet pure and worthy of the\r\npure truth, but still discordant and disordered and material, must\r\nstand outside of the divine choir. “For we compare spiritual things\r\nwith spiritual.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_744\" id=\"FNanchor_744\">[744]</a> Wherefore, in accordance with the method of\r\nconcealment, the truly sacred Word, truly divine and most necessary for\r\nus, deposited in the shrine of truth, was by the Egyptians indicated by\r\nwhat were called<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_233\">[233]</span> among them <i>adyta</i>, and by the Hebrews by the\r\nveil. Only the consecrated—that is, those devoted to God, circumcised\r\nin the desires of the passions for the sake of love to that which is\r\nalone divine—were allowed access to them. For Plato also thought it\r\nnot lawful for “the impure to touch the pure.”</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK V.","CHAPTER IV. DIVINE THINGS WRAPPED UP IN FIGURES BOTH IN THE SACRED AND IN HEATHEN WRITERS."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_744","paragraph_id":"pg73020-paragraph-326"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"d540ad037cd88ed11ac3a7927232212e12325321d7e2c993a25325c2b3a20842","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"1CO","chapter":2,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"1 Cor. ii. 13","verse":13,"verse_end":13}],"headings":[],"id":"pg73020-Footnote_744","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_744","source_ebook":73020,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_744\" id=\"Footnote_744\">[744]</a> 1 Cor. ii. 13.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"c35077683d75abe553cc6ef5d3ef5a1a978f07dfbcf4bad5c3d56302ad03dc19","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_744","text_sha256":"726382d0df91e932aff72fc6b39bf746c51f50537af3725347b4a1ae645c9cb1","verified":false,"work_id":null}