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Clement of Alexandria
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Introductory Note to Clement of Alexandria
[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.]
[1473] [Seenote 10, p. 253. The beauty of this mysticism need not be pointed out, but it need not be pressed as exposition.]
[1474] [This illustrates, in part, the difference between the esoteric, or mystic, and the more popular teaching of our author.]
[1475] Ecclus. xxxix. 13, 14.
[1476] Ecclus. xxxix. 26, 27.
[1477] [Family prayers, apparently.]
[1478] See p. 258, infra. Sleep, he supposes, frees the soul as really, not so absolutely, as death:—
“Th’ immortal mind that hath forsook
Her mansion in this fleshly nook.”
Penseroso, line 91.]
[1479] Iliad, x. 155. [Note the Scriptural moderation with which he censures, recognising what is allowable, and rejecting the “pride that apes humility.”]
[1480] Luke xii. 35-37. [Concerning “sleep,” see p. 259, infra.]
[1481] [Holy men, on waking in the night, have always used ejaculations, even when unable to rise. Ps. cxix. 62; Acts xvi. 25.]
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