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Clement of Alexandria
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Introductory Note to Clement of Alexandria
[1600] Ecclus. xxv. 6.
[1602] [On the other hand, this was Esau’s symbol; and the sensual “satyrs” (Isa. xiii. 2) are “hairy goats,” in the original. So also the originals of “devils” in Lev. xvii. 7, and 2 Chron. xi. 15. See the learned note of Mr. West, in his edition of Leighton, vol. v. p. 161.]
[1604] έγκαταριθμένην seems to be here used in a middle, not a passive sense, as καταριθμημένος is sometimes.
[1606] [Such were the manners with which the Gospel was forced everywhere to contend. That they were against nature is sufficiently clear from the remains of decency in some heathen. Herodotus (book i. cap. 8) tells us that the Lydians counted it disgraceful even for a man to be seen naked.]
[1610] [When the loss of the beard was a token of foppery and often of something worse, shaving would be frivolity; but here he treats of extirpation.]
[1612] Ecclus. xix. 29, 30.
[1613] Hesiod, Works and Days, i. 232.
[1614] Of which they drink.
[1615] [He took upon him our nature, flesh and blood. Heb. ii. 14-16.]
Chapter IV.—With Whom We are to Associate.
[1618] Ecclus. ix. 7.
[1619] Ecclus. xi. 29.
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