{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"p-left\">fashioners of stones, and worshippers of them. Let your Phidias, and\r\nPolycletus, and your Praxiteles and Apelles too, come, and all that are\r\nengaged in mechanical arts, who, being themselves of the earth, are\r\nworkers of the earth. “For then,” says a certain prophecy, “the affairs\r\nhere turn out unfortunately, when men put their trust in images.” Let\r\nthe meaner artists, too—for I will not stop calling—come. None of\r\nthese ever made a breathing image, or out of earth moulded soft flesh.\r\nWho liquefied the marrow? or who solidified the bones? Who stretched\r\nthe nerves? who distended the veins?<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_91\">[91]</span> Who poured the blood into\r\nthem? Or who spread the skin? Who ever could have made eyes capable\r\nof seeing? Who breathed spirit into the lifeless form? Who bestowed\r\nrighteousness? Who promised immortality? The Maker of the universe\r\nalone: the Great Artist and Father has formed us, such a living image\r\nas man is. But your Olympian Jove, the image of an image, greatly out\r\nof harmony with truth, is the senseless work of Attic hands. For the\r\nimage of God is His Word, the genuine Son of Mind, the Divine Word, the\r\narchetypal light of light; and the image of the Word is the true man,\r\nthe mind which is in man, who is therefore said to have been made “in\r\nthe image and likeness of God,”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_126\" id=\"FNanchor_126\">[126]</a> assimilated to the Divine Word\r\nin the affections of the soul, and therefore rational; but effigies\r\nsculptured in human form, the earthly image of that part of man which\r\nis visible and earth-born, are but a perishable impress of humanity,\r\nmanifestly wide of the truth. That life, then, which is occupied with\r\nso much earnestness about matter, seems to me to be nothing else than\r\nfull of insanity. And custom, which has made you taste bondage and\r\nunreasonable care, is fostered by vain opinion; and ignorance, which\r\nhas proved to the human race the cause of unlawful rites and delusive\r\nshows, and also of deadly plagues and hateful images, has, by devising\r\nmany shapes of demons, stamped on all that follow it the mark of\r\nlong-continued death. Receive, then, the water of the word; wash, ye\r\npolluted ones; purify yourselves from custom, by sprinkling yourselves\r\nwith the drops of truth. The pure must ascend to heaven. Thou art a\r\nman, if we look to that which is most common to thee and others—seek\r\nHim who created thee; thou art a son, if we look to that which is thy\r\npeculiar prerogative—acknowledge thy Father. But do you still continue\r\nin your sins, engrossed with pleasures? To whom shall the Lord say,\r\n“Yours is the kingdom of heaven?” Yours, whose choice is set on God, if\r\nyou will; yours, if you will only believe, and comply with the brief\r\nterms of the announcement; which the Ninevites having obeyed, instead\r\nof the destruction they looked for, obtained a signal deliverance.<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_92\">[92]</span>\r\nHow, then, may I ascend to heaven, is it said? The Lord is the way; a\r\nstrait way, but leading from heaven, strait in truth, but leading back\r\nto heaven, strait, despised on earth; broad, adored in heaven.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","EXHORTATION TO THE HEATHEN.","CHAPTER X. 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