{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>He impoverishes himself, in order that he may never overlook a\r\nbrother<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1270\" id=\"FNanchor_1270\">[1270]</a> who has been brought into affliction, through<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_463\">[463]</span> the\r\nperfection that is in love, especially if he know that he will bear\r\nwant himself easier than his brother. He considers, accordingly, the\r\nother’s pain his own grief; and if, by contributing from his own\r\nindigence in order to do good, he suffer any hardship, he does not fret\r\nat this, but augments his beneficence still more. For he possesses in\r\nits sincerity the faith which is exercised in reference to the affairs\r\nof life, and praises the gospel in practice and contemplation. And, in\r\ntruth, he wins his praise “not from men, but from God,”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_1271\" id=\"FNanchor_1271\">[1271]</a> by the\r\nperformance of what the Lord has taught.</p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","BOOK VII.","CHAPTER XII. THE TRUE GNOSTIC IS BENEFICENT, CONTINENT, AND DESPISES WORLDLY THINGS."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_1270","paragraph_id":"pg73020-paragraph-1102"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"ca3821434fd04eca7007eb0bba0af491cd63ca6a974d40f40fec8508917f0aba","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1869,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg73020-Footnote_1270","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_1270","source_ebook":73020,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_1270\" id=\"Footnote_1270\">[1270]</a> Or His, <i>i.e.</i> the Lord’s.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"c35077683d75abe553cc6ef5d3ef5a1a978f07dfbcf4bad5c3d56302ad03dc19","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/73020/pg73020-images.html#Footnote_1270","text_sha256":"2b48b9699fb73ad63917279892c828dce26f8a783b92c62637b59a125592097b","verified":false,"work_id":null}