{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Dyeing of clothes is also to be rejected. For it is remote both from\r\nnecessity and truth, in addition to the fact that reproach in manners\r\nsprings from it. For the use of colours is not beneficial, for they\r\nare of no service against cold; nor has it anything for covering more\r\nthan other clothing, except the opprobrium alone. And the agreeableness\r\nof the colour<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_259\">[259]</span> afflicts greedy eyes, inflaming them to senseless\r\nblindness. But for those who are white and unstained within, it is\r\nmost suitable to use white and simple garments. Clearly and plainly,\r\ntherefore, Daniel the prophet says, “Thrones were set, and upon\r\nthem sat one like the Ancient of days, and His vesture was white as\r\nsnow.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_594\" id=\"FNanchor_594\">[594]</a> The Apocalypse says also that the Lord Himself appeared\r\nwearing such a robe. It says also, “I saw the souls of those that had\r\nwitnessed, beneath the altar, and there was given to each a white\r\nrobe.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_595\" id=\"FNanchor_595\">[595]</a> And if it were necessary to seek for any other colour, the\r\nnatural colour of truth should suffice. But garments which are like\r\nflowers are to be abandoned to Bacchic fooleries, and to those of the\r\nrites of initiation, along with purple and silver plate, as the comic\r\npoet says:</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","THE INSTRUCTOR.","BOOK II.","CHAPTER XI. ON CLOTHES."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_594","paragraph_id":"pg71937-paragraph-444"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"3e63173041b2bcfae4bbaeb7d45e2ebbcf174db705f1f5bb13467c190cb2f230","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1867,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"DAN","chapter":7,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Dan. vii. 9","verse":9,"verse_end":9}],"headings":[],"id":"pg71937-Footnote_594","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_594","source_ebook":71937,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_594\" id=\"Footnote_594\">[594]</a> Dan. vii. 9.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"8e5c5bc39922dbad2626ac7651c2eb2e3d94cdcbd721f781e9792143ebb1cd03","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/71937/pg71937-images.html#Footnote_594","text_sha256":"cb60f3c7bc365de938b689e18ca84f5406f448b10084058f1535b9c1b52d964f","verified":false,"work_id":null}