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Clement of Alexandria
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Introductory Note to Clement of Alexandria
[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.]
[1575] [Note this psychological dissection. Compare Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, book vi. cap. 2, ἄισθησις, νοῦς, ὂρεξις, sense, intellect, appetition. Also, book i. cap. 11, or 13 in some editions.]
[1576] Odyss., iv. 456–458.
[1579] Isa. liii. 2, 3. [But see also Ps. xlv. 2, which was often cited by the ancients to prove the reverse. Both may be reconciled; he was a fair and comely child like his father David; but, as “the man of sorrows,” he became old in looks, and his countence was marred. For David’s beauty, see 1 Sam. xvi. 12. For our Lord’s at twelve years of age, when the virgin was seeking her child, Canticles, v. 7–16. For his appearance at three and thirty, when the Jews only ventured to credit him with less than fifty years, John viii. 57. See also Irenæus, Against Heresies, cap. xxii. note 12, p. 391, this series.]
Chapter II.—Against Embellishing the Body.
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