{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>And he anointed not him that was comely in person, but him that was\r\ncomely in soul. If, then, the Lord counts the natural beauty of the\r\nbody inferior to that of the soul, what thinks He of spurious beauty,\r\nrejecting utterly as He does all falsehood? “For we walk by faith, not\r\nby sight.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_638\" id=\"FNanchor_638\">[638]</a> Very clearly the Lord accordingly teaches by Abraham,\r\nthat he who follows God must despise country, and relations, and\r\npossessions, and all wealth, by making him a stranger. And therefore\r\nalso He called him His friend, who had despised the substance which he\r\nhad possessed at home. For he was of good parentage, and very opulent;\r\nand so with three hundred and eighteen servants of his own he subdued\r\nthe four kings who had taken Lot captive.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","THE INSTRUCTOR.","BOOK III.","CHAPTER II. AGAINST EMBELLISHING THE BODY."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_638","paragraph_id":"pg71937-paragraph-499"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"114fa1676c3b23623912bb7585c7f7198c795d9b795d22bfc97e5c78d120f64b","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1867,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"2CO","chapter":5,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"2 Cor. v. 7","verse":7,"verse_end":7}],"headings":[],"id":"pg71937-Footnote_638","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_638","source_ebook":71937,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_638\" id=\"Footnote_638\">[638]</a> 2 Cor. v. 7.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"8e5c5bc39922dbad2626ac7651c2eb2e3d94cdcbd721f781e9792143ebb1cd03","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/71937/pg71937-images.html#Footnote_638","text_sha256":"d52294848161f9997eb08981854b3400a2d02be82639e740a93d669acbfbc9bd","verified":false,"work_id":null}