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Clement of Alexandria
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Introductory Note to Clement of Alexandria
[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.
[1374] [A passage not to be overlooked. Greek, μυστικὸν σύμβολον.]
[1376] ἀνθοσμίας. Some suppose the word to be derived from the name of a town: “The Anthosmian.”
[1378] [Here Clement satirizes heathen manners, and quote Athene, to shame Christians who imitate them.]
[1379] Ecclus. xxxi. 25.
[1380] [The blood of the vine is Christ’s blood. According to Clement, then, it remains in the Eucharist unchanged.]
[1381] Mark xvi. 25; Matt. xxvi. 29. [This also is a noteworthy use of the text.]
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