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Clement of Alexandria
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Introductory Note to Clement of Alexandria
[1452] [“Against such there is no law.” Emollit Mores, etc.]
Chapter VIII.—On the Use of Ointments and Crowns.
[1453] Matt. xxvi. 7, etc.
[1457] [We need not refuse this efflorescence as poetry, nor accept it as exposition.]
[1463] [Considering the use of incense in Hebrew worship, and the imagery of the Apocalypse, the emphasis with which the Fathers reject material incense, is to be noted.]
[1464] Ecclus. xxxviii. 1, 2, 8.
[1465] [An idyllic passage illustrative of our author’s delight in rural scenes and pleasures.]
[1466] [Christianity delights in natural beauty, and always associates its enjoyment with praise to its Author. Ecclus. xliii. 11.]
[1468] [This was a marked characteristic of Christian manners at war with heathenism.]
[1469] [
“Immortal amaranth, a flower which once
In Paradise fast by the tree of life
Began to bloom.”
Paradise Lost, iii. 352.]
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