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Book 6 Minor Writers
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Translator’s Biographical Notice.
[1299] Murrhine vessels were first introduced into Rome by Pompey. They were valued chiefly for their variegated colours, and were extremely costly. Some think they were made of onyx stone, others of variegated glass: but most modern writers suppose that what is meant was some sort of porcelain.
[1300] [A lofty spirit of liberal love for literature is here exemplified.]
[1301] It is from these words that the inference is drawn that this epistle was written by a Greek.
[1302] [The teachings of Clement had formed the minor morals of Christians. See vol. ii. book ii. pp. 237, 284.]
[1303] [Thus is reflected the teaching of St. Paul, 1 Tim. v. 2. All women to be honoured, and “all purity” to characterize society with them.]
[1308] [Blessed spirit of primitive piety! Is not this rule too much relaxed in our own Laodicean age?]
[1309] Phil. iv. 7. [How much there is in this letter which ought to prick the consciences of wealthy and “fashionable” Christians of our day!]
Translator’s Biographical Notice.
[1310] De vir. illustr., chap. 78.
[1311] Hist. Eccles., viii. 9 and 10.
[1312] [His diocese belonged to the region over which Alexandria had the primacy by the “ancient usages.”]
Fragments of the Epistle of Phileas to the People of Thmuis.
[1313] In Eusebius, Hist. Eccles., viii. 10.
[1315] χριστοφόροι. So Ignatius of Antioch was called θεοφόρος, God-bearer. [Vol. i. pp. 45, 49, this series.]
[1317] ξύλοις. What is meant, however, may be the instrument called by the Romans equuleus, a kind of rack in the shape of a horse, commonly used in taking the evidence of slaves.
[1318] μαγγάνοις τισί.
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