{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, how often would I have gathered thy children,\r\nas a hen her chickens!”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_852\" id=\"FNanchor_852\">[852]</a> And Jerusalem is, when interpreted, “a\r\nvision of peace.” He therefore shows prophetically, that those who\r\npeacefully contemplate sacred things are in manifold ways trained to\r\ntheir calling. What then? He “would,” and could not. How often, and\r\nwhere? Twice; by the prophets, and by the advent. The expression,\r\nthen, “how often,” shows wisdom to be manifold; and in every mode of\r\nquantity and quality, it by all means saves some, both in time and in\r\neternity. “For the Spirit of the Lord fills the earth.” And if any\r\nshould violently say that the reference is to the Hellenic culture,\r\nwhen it is said, “Give not heed to an evil woman; for honey drops from\r\nthe lips of a harlot,” let him hear what follows: “who lubricates thy\r\nthroat for the time.” But philosophy does not flatter. Who, then, does\r\nHe allude to as having committed fornication? He adds expressly, “For\r\nthe feet of folly lead those who use her, after death, to Hades. But\r\nher steps are not supported.” Therefore remove thy way far from silly\r\npleasure. “Stand not at the doors of her house, that thou yield not\r\nthy life to others.” And He testifies, “Then shalt thou repent in old\r\nage, when the flesh of thy body is consumed.” For this is the end of\r\nfoolish pleasure. Such, indeed, is the case. And when He says, “Be\r\nnot much with a strange woman,”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_853\" id=\"FNanchor_853\">[853]</a> He admonishes us to use indeed,\r\nbut not to linger and spend time with, secular culture. For what was\r\nbestowed on each generation advantageously, and at seasonable times,\r\nis a preliminary training for the word of the Lord. “For already\r\nsome men, ensnared by the charms of handmaidens, have despised their\r\nconsort philosophy, and have grown old, some of them in music, some in<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_368\">[368]</span>\r\ngeometry, others in grammar, the most in rhetoric.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_854\" id=\"FNanchor_854\">[854]</a> “But as the\r\nencyclical branches of study contribute to philosophy, which is their\r\nmistress; so also philosophy itself co-operates for the acquisition\r\nof wisdom. For philosophy is the study of wisdom, and wisdom is the\r\nknowledge of things divine and human; and their causes.” Wisdom is\r\ntherefore queen of philosophy, as philosophy is of preparatory culture.\r\nFor if philosophy “professes control of the tongue, and the belly, and\r\nthe parts below the belly, it is to be chosen on its own account. But\r\nit appears more worthy of respect and pre-eminence, if cultivated for\r\nthe honour and knowledge of God.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_855\" id=\"FNanchor_855\">[855]</a> And Scripture will afford a\r\ntestimony to what has been said in what follows. Sarah was at one time\r\nbarren, being Abraham’s wife. Sarah having no child, assigned her maid,\r\nby name Hagar, the Egyptian, to Abraham, in order to get children.\r\nWisdom, therefore, who dwells with the man of faith (and Abraham was\r\nreckoned faithful and righteous), was still barren and without child in\r\nthat generation, not having brought forth to Abraham aught allied to\r\nvirtue. And she, as was proper, thought that he, being now in the time\r\nof progress, should have intercourse with secular culture first (by\r\nEgyptian the world is designated figuratively); and afterwards should\r\napproach to her according to divine providence, and beget Isaac.<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_856\" id=\"FNanchor_856\">[856]</a></p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","THE MISCELLANIES.","BOOK I.","CHAPTER V. 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