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Clement of Alexandria
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Introductory Note to Clement of Alexandria
[1504] [Naturâ duce, sub lege Logi, omnia fidelibus licent non omnia tamen expediunt. Conf Paulum, I., Ad Corinth, vi. 12.]
[1506] [He has argued powerfully on the delicacy and refinement which should be observed in Christian marriage, to which Lactantius in the next age will be found attributing the glory of chastity, as really as to a pure celibacy. He now continues the argument in a form which our translators do not scruple to English.]
[1507] Ecclus. xxiii. 18, 19.
[1510] Wisd. vii. 10 is probably referred to.
[1512] That is, the Jewish.
[1514] [1 Cor. x. 8; Num. xxv. 1-9. Clement says twenty-four thousand, with the Old Testament, but St. Paul says twenty-three thousand; on which, ad locum, see Speaker’s Commentary.]
[1515] Ecclus. xviii. 30.
[1516] Ecclus. xix. 2, 3, 5.
[1517] [Right reason is the best remedy against all excesses, argues our author, but always subject to the express law of the Gospel.]
[1518] Chap. xi. is not a separate chapter in the Greek, but appears as part of chap. x.
[1524] μετέωρος
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