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Clement of Alexandria
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Introductory Note to Clement of Alexandria
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.
[1649] Ibid.
[1650] Ibid.
[1652] Following Lowth’s conjecture of κακοφρόνων insteasd of that of the text, κακόφρονας.
Chapter IX.—Why We are to Use the Bath.
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