{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p>But what passes beyond the bounds of absurdity, is that<span class=\"pagenum\" id=\"Page_281\">[281]</span> they have\r\ninvented mirrors for this artificial shape of theirs, as if it were\r\nsome excellent work or masterpiece. The deception rather requires\r\na veil thrown over it. For as the Greek fable has it, it was not a\r\nfortunate thing for the beautiful Narcissus to have been the beholder\r\nof his own image. And if Moses commanded men to make not an image to\r\nrepresent God by art, how can these women be right, who by their own\r\nreflection produce an imitation of their own likeness, in order to\r\nthe falsifying of their face? Likewise also, when Samuel the prophet\r\nwas sent to anoint one of the sons of Jesse for king, and on seeing\r\nthe eldest of his sons to be fair and tall, produced the anointing\r\noil, being delighted with him, the Lord said to him, “Look not to his\r\nappearance, nor the height of his stature: for I have rejected him. For\r\nman looketh on the eyes, but the Lord into the heart.”<a class=\"fnanchor pginternal\" href=\"#Footnote_637\" id=\"FNanchor_637\">[637]</a></p>","headings":["THE WRITINGS OF CLEMENT OF ALEXANDRIA.","THE INSTRUCTOR.","BOOK III.","CHAPTER II. AGAINST EMBELLISHING THE BODY."],"marker_anchor":"FNanchor_637","paragraph_id":"pg71937-paragraph-498"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"78d151984b054a477259b1e4b1dac59763566b22ae820900fe74a6318309ec5f","edition_title":"The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 1 (of 2)","edition_translators":["William Wilson"],"edition_year":1867,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg71937-Footnote_637","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_637","source_ebook":71937,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\">\n<p><a class=\"label pginternal\" href=\"#FNanchor_637\" id=\"Footnote_637\">[637]</a> 1 Sam. xvi. 7.</p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"8e5c5bc39922dbad2626ac7651c2eb2e3d94cdcbd721f781e9792143ebb1cd03","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/71937/pg71937-images.html#Footnote_637","text_sha256":"3e4fff0d3348eaa5acf9d0dcb10d1cabad67a39b9c21c00db540fec723ba4b4d","verified":false,"work_id":null}