{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"drop-cap p-left\">And so the use of cups made of silver and gold, and of others inlaid\r\nwith precious stones, is out of place, being only a deception of the\r\nvision. For if you pour any warm liquid into them, the vessels becoming\r\nhot, to touch them is painful. On the other hand, if you pour in what\r\nis cold, the material changes its quality, injuring the mixture, and\r\nthe rich potion is hurtful. Away, then, with Thericleian cups and\r\nAntigonides, and Canthari, and goblets, and Lepastæ,<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_493\" id=\"FNanchor_493\">[493]</a> and the\r\nendless shapes of drinking vessels, and wine-coolers, and wine-pourers\r\nalso. For, on the whole, gold and silver, both publicly and privately,\r\nare an invidious possession when they exceed what is necessary, seldom\r\nto be acquired, difficult to keep, and not adapted for use. The\r\nelaborate vanity, too, of vessels in glass chased, more apt to break\r\non account of the art, teaching us to fear while we drink, is to be\r\nbanished from our well-ordered constitution. And silver couches, and\r\npans and vinegar-saucers, and trenchers and bowls; and besides these,\r\nvessels of silver and gold, some for serving food, and others for other\r\nuses which I am ashamed to name, of easily cleft cedar and thyine wood,\r\nand ebony, and tripods fashioned of ivory, and couches with silver\r\nfeet and inlaid with ivory, and folding-doors of beds studded with\r\ngold and variegated with tortoise-shell, and bed-clothes of purple and\r\nother colours difficult to produce, proofs of tasteless luxury, cunning\r\ndevices of envy and effeminacy,—are all to be relinquished, as having\r\nnothing whatever worth our pains. “For the time is short,” as says the<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_212\">[212]</span>\r\napostle. This then remains that we do, not make a ridiculous figure, as\r\nsome are seen in the public spectacles outwardly anointed strikingly\r\nfor imposing effect, but wretched within. Explaining this more clearly,\r\nhe adds, “It remains that they that have wives be as though they had\r\nnone, and they that buy as though they possessed not.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_494\" id=\"FNanchor_494\">[494]</a> And if he\r\nspeaks thus of marriage, in reference to which God says, “Multiply,”\r\nhow do you not think that senseless display is by the Lord’s authority\r\nto be banished? Wherefore also the Lord says, “Sell what thou hast, and\r\ngive to the poor; and come, follow me.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_495\" id=\"FNanchor_495\">[495]</a></p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","THE INSTRUCTOR.","BOOK II.","CHAPTER III. ON COSTLY VESSELS."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_495","paragraph_id":"pg71937-paragraph-373"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"d138f33b05697fd38c5b8432c4984aa1d1fd3d03d83c28c3d9476c279b0a740c","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1867,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"MAT","chapter":19,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Matt. xix. 21","verse":21,"verse_end":21}],"headings":[],"id":"pg71937-Footnote_495","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_495","source_ebook":71937,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_495\" id=\"Footnote_495\">[495]</a> Matt. xix. 21.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"8e5c5bc39922dbad2626ac7651c2eb2e3d94cdcbd721f781e9792143ebb1cd03","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/71937/pg71937-images.html#Footnote_495","text_sha256":"ba7aa791b2db89fb5bae3af0aa1080b7d821f1882d337cc4560ed5f45c061ab4","verified":false,"work_id":null}