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Clement of Alexandria
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Introductory Note to Clement of Alexandria
[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
[1526] Clement uses here Platonic language, δόξα meaning opinion established on no scientific basis, which may be true or may be false, and ἐπιστήμη knowledge sure and certain, because based on the reasons of things.
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