| << | Contents | >> |
Clement of Alexandria
Show All Footnotes & Jump to 1564
Introductory Note to Clement of Alexandria
[1554] [Amber is referred to, and the extravagant values attributed to it. The mysterious enclosure of bees and other insects in amber, gave it superstitious importance. Clement may have fancied these to be remnants of a pre-adamite earth.]
[1557] [Chrysostom enlarges on this Christian thought most eloquently, in several of his homilies: e.g., on the First Epistle to the Corinthians. Hom. xxi. tom. x. p. 178. Opp., ed. Migne.]
[1558] Iliad, ii. 872.
[1559] [The necklace called κάθεμα or κάθημα seems to be referred to. Ezek. xvi. 11, and Isa. iii. 19, Sept.]
[1560] Ἐλλόβιον by conjecture, as more suitable to the connection than Ἐλλέβορον or Ἐλέβορον. Hellebore of the ms., though Hellebore may be intended as a comic ending.
[1561] [The Greek satirist seems to have borrowed Isaiah’s catalogue. cap. iii. 18–23.]
[1564] Logos is identified with reason; and it is by reason, or the ingenuity of man, that gold is discovered and brought to light. [But here he seems to have in view the comparisons between gold and wisdom, in Job xxviii.]
[1565] εἴ´δωλον, an appearance, an image.
[1568] By mistake for Paul. Clement quotes here, as often, from memory (1 Tim. ii. 9, 10).
Chapter I.—On the True Beauty.
[1574] [On this book, Kaye’s comments extend from p. 91 to p. 111 of his analysis.]
Search Comments
This page has been visited 0451 times.
| << | Contents | >> |
10 per page