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Clement of Alexandria
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Introductory Note to Clement of Alexandria
[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].
[1364] The exact derivation of acrothorakes is matter of doubt. But we have the authority of Aristotle and Erotian for believing that is was applied to those who were slightly drunk. Some regard the clause here as an interpolation.
[1365] Ecclus. xxxi. 27.
[1366] Pentheus in Euripides, Bacch., 918.
[1367] Attributed to Sophocles.
[1368] Ecclus. xxxi. 29.
[1369] [A beautiful maxim, and proving the habit of early Christians to use completory prayers. This the drunkard is in no state to do.]
[1370] Ecclus. xxxi. 26.
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