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Clement of Alexandria
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Introductory Note to Clement of Alexandria
[1344] A bulbous root, much prized in Greece, which grew wild.
[1346] A play here on the words εὐδαίμων and δαίμων.
[1347] ἀκρόδρυα, hard-shelled fruits.
[1352] In allusion to the agapæ, or love-feasts.
[1353] 2 Kings vi. 17-19, Septuagint: 2 Sam. vi. 17-19. A.V.
[1354] ὄνος, perhaps the hake or cod.
[1357] [This remarkable chapter seems to begin with the author’s recollections of Pindar (ἄριστον μὲν ϋδωρ), but to lay down very justly the Scriptural ideas of temperance and abstinence.]
[1359] [Clement reckons only two classes as living faithfully with respect to drink, the abstinent and the totally abstinent.]
[1360] [This seems Clement’s exposition of St. John (vi. 63), and a clear statement as to the Eucharist, which he pronounces spiritual food.]
[1361] [A plain reference to the use of the mixed cup in the Lord’s supper.]
[1362] [If the temperate do well, he thinks, the abstinent do better; but nobody is temperate who does not often and habitually abstain.]
[1363] [A very important principle; for, if wine be “the milk of age,” the use of it in youth deprives age of any benefit from its sober use].
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