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Clement of Alexandria
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Introductory Note to Clement of Alexandria
[1628] [Such were women before the Gospel came. See note to Hermas, cap. xi. note 1, p. 47, this volume, and Elucidation (p. 57) of the same.]
[1629] [The barbarians were more decent than the Greeks, being nearer to the state of nature, which is a better guide than pagan civilization. But see the interesting note of Rawlinson (Herod., vol. i. p. 125, ed. New York), who quotes Thucydides (i. 6) to prove the recent invasion of immodest exposure even among athletes. Our author has this same quotation in mind, for he almost translates it here.]
[1630] [Attic girls raced in the games quite naked. Spartan girls wore only the linen chiton, even in the company of men; and this was esteemed nudity, not unjustly. David’s “uncovering himself” (2 Sam. vi. 20) was nudity of the same sort. Married women assumed to peplus.]
Chapter VI.—The Christian Alone Rich.
Chapter VII.—Frugality a Good Provision for the Christian.
[1642] [Kaye, p. 97.]
[1643] [A beautiful apophthegm, and admirably interpretative of Ps. xxxvii. 25.]
[1644] Deut. viii. 3; Matt. iv. 4.
Chapter VIII.—Similitudes and Examples a Most Important Part of Right Instruction.
[1645] The word used by Clement here for frugality is εύτέλεια, and he supposes the word to mean originally “spending well.” A proper way of spending money is as good as unfailing riches, since it always has enough for all that is necessary.
[1646] [This plea for similitudes illustrates the principle of Hermas, and the ground of the currency of his Pastor.]
[1647] Euripides, Orestes, 588–590.
[1648] Hesiod, Works and Days, i. 291.
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