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Clement of Alexandria
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Introductory Note to Clement of Alexandria
[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.
[1527] [Martial, Epigrams, passim.]
[1528] [The reproach and opprobrium of foppery.]
[1531] [This refers to the natural tint of unbleached linen, or to wool not whitened by the art of the fuller. Hermas speaks of “pure undressed linen.” Book iii. 4, p. 40, supra.]
[1532] [The colour (probably, for mss. differ) reprehended as the dress of the false shepherd in Hermas. See note 10, book iii. Simil. 6. cap. ii. p. 36, this volume.]
[1533] Ecclus. xi. 4.
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