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Clement of Alexandria
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Introductory Note to Clement of Alexandria
[1395] Or, proud.
[1396] [See Elucidation I. ἐνστάσεσιν τοῦ Χριστιανοῦ.]
[1397] καλοῦ.
Chapter IV.—How to Conduct Ourselves at Feasts.
[1400] The reading ἅλυσις is here adopted. The passage is obscure.
[1402] [He distinguishes between the lewd music of Satanic odes (Tatian, cap. xxxiii. p. 79, supra), and another art of music of which he will soon speak.]
[1405] [Here instrumental music is allowed, though he turns everything into a type.]
[1407] [Even the heathen had such forms. The Christian grace before and after meat is here recognised as a matter of course. 1 Tim. iv. 3, 4.]
[1408] Eph. v. 19; Col. iii. 16.
[1409] [Besides the hymn on lighting the lamps, he notes completory prayer at bedtime.]
[1410] Wisd. Sirach (Ecclus.) xxxix. 15, 16.
[1414] [Observe the contrast between the modest harmonies he praises, and the operatic strains he censures. Yet modern Christians delight in these florid and meretricious compositions, and they have intruded into the solemnities of worship. In Europe, dramatic composers of a sensual school have taken possession of the Latin ceremonial.]
[1415] [On gluttony and drinking, our author borrows much from Plato. Kaye, p. 74.]
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