{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>“The decorous tendency of our philanthropy, therefore,” according to\r\nClement, “seeks the common good;” whether by suffering martyrdom, or\r\nby teaching by deed and word,—the latter being twofold, unwritten and\r\nwritten. This is love, to love God and our neighbour. “This conducts to\r\nthe height which is unutterable. ‘Love covers a multitude of sins.<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_613\" id=\"FNanchor_613\">[613]</a>\r\nLove beareth all things, suffereth all things.’<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_614\" id=\"FNanchor_614\">[614]</a> Love joins us to\r\nGod, does all things in concord. In love, all the chosen of God were\r\nperfected. Apart from love, nothing is well pleasing to God.” “Of its\r\nperfection there is no unfolding,” it is said. “Who is fit to be found\r\nin it, except those whom God counts worthy?” To the point the Apostle\r\nPaul speaks, “If I give my body, and have not love, I am sounding\r\nbrass, and a tinkling cymbal.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_615\" id=\"FNanchor_615\">[615]</a> If it is not from a disposition\r\ndetermined by gnostic love that I shall<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_191\">[191]</span> testify, he means; but if\r\nthrough fear and expected reward, moving my lips in order to testify\r\nto the Lord that I shall confess the Lord, I am a common man, sounding\r\nthe Lord’s name, not knowing Him. “For there is the people that loveth\r\nwith the lips; and there is another which gives the body to be burned.”\r\n“And if I give all my goods in alms,” he says, not according to the\r\nprinciple of loving communication, but on account of recompense, either\r\nfrom him who has received the benefit, or the Lord who has promised;\r\n“and if I have all faith so as to remove mountains,” and cast away\r\nobscuring passions, and be not faithful to the Lord from love, “I am\r\nnothing,” as in comparison of him who testifies as a Gnostic, and the\r\ncrowd, and being reckoned nothing better.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK IV.","CHAPTER XVIII. ON LOVE, AND THE REPRESSING OF OUR DESIRES."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_614","paragraph_id":"pg73020-paragraph-238"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"d3fac673ea5b3b21282a434d994bd22802ea6c39eedc3919b9fe962c6c049131","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":13,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"1 Cor. xiii. 7","verse":7,"verse_end":7}],"headings":[],"id":"pg73020-Footnote_614","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_614","source_ebook":73020,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_614\" id=\"Footnote_614\">[614]</a> 1 Cor. xiii. 7.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"c35077683d75abe553cc6ef5d3ef5a1a978f07dfbcf4bad5c3d56302ad03dc19","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_614","text_sha256":"0b48b922242aa7442848fbb1f3be25169c959b1699a836d16728c56e2a5444da","verified":false,"work_id":null}