{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>Let the philosophers, then, own as their teachers the Persians, or\r\nthe Sauromatæ, or the Magi, from whom they have learned the impious\r\ndoctrine of regarding as divine certain first principles, being\r\nignorant of the great First Cause, the Maker of all things, and Creator\r\nof those very first principles, the unbeginning God, but reverencing\r\n“these weak and beggarly elements,”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_64\" id=\"FNanchor_64\">[64]</a> as the apostle says, which\r\nwere made for the service of man. And of the rest of the philosophers\r\nwho, passing over the elements, have eagerly sought after something\r\nhigher and nobler, some have descanted on the Infinite, of whom were\r\nAnaximander of Miletus, Anaxagoras of Clazomenæ, and the Athenian\r\nArchelaus, both of<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_68\">[68]</span> whom set Mind (νοȗς) above Infinity; while the\r\nMilesian Leucippus and the Chian Metrodorus apparently inculcated two\r\nfirst principles—fulness and vacuity. Democritus of Abdera, while\r\naccepting these two, added to them images (εἵδωλα); while Alcmæon of\r\nCrotona supposed the stars to be gods, and endowed with life (I will\r\nnot keep silence as to their effrontery). Xenocrates of Chalcedon\r\nindicates that the planets are seven gods, and that the universe,\r\ncomposed of all these, is an eighth. Nor will I pass over those of the\r\nPorch, who say that the Divinity pervades all matter, even the vilest,\r\nand thus clumsily disgrace philosophy. Nor do I think will it be taken\r\nill, having reached this point, to advert to the Peripatetics. The\r\nfather of this sect, not knowing the Father of all things, thinks that\r\nHe who is called the Highest is the soul of the universe; that is, he\r\nsupposes the soul of the world to be God, and so is pierced by his own\r\nsword. For by first limiting the sphere of Providence to the orbit of\r\nthe moon, and then by supposing the universe to be God, he confutes\r\nhimself, inasmuch as he teaches that that which is without God is God.\r\nAnd that Eresian Theophrastus, the pupil of Aristotle, conjectures at\r\none time heaven, and at another spirit, to be God. Epicurus alone I\r\nshall gladly forget, who carries impiety to its full length, and thinks\r\nthat God takes no charge of the world. What, moreover, of Heraclides\r\nof Pontus? He is dragged everywhere to the images—the εἵδωλα—of\r\nDemocritus.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","EXHORTATION TO THE HEATHEN.","CHAPTER V. THE OPINIONS OF THE PHILOSOPHERS RESPECTING GOD."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_64","paragraph_id":"pg71937-paragraph-163"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"670d4560f953ab557b1afeb9b5e8ef8d32b60268aeffb21ecf4b3a85c5f92498","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1867,"explicit_reference_candidates":[{"book":"GAL","chapter":4,"kind":"unreviewed","source_notation":"Gal. iv. 9","verse":9,"verse_end":9}],"headings":[],"id":"pg71937-Footnote_64","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_64","source_ebook":71937,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_64\" id=\"Footnote_64\">[64]</a> Gal. iv. 9.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"8e5c5bc39922dbad2626ac7651c2eb2e3d94cdcbd721f781e9792143ebb1cd03","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/71937/pg71937-images.html#Footnote_64","text_sha256":"67858521ef6ba5bd201a341a672c11687ecdb85b7346c6e2422cf5e375b665e9","verified":false,"work_id":null}