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Clement of Alexandria
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Introductory Note to Clement of Alexandria
[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.
[1653] [The morals of Clement as to decency in bathing need to be enforced among modern Christians, at seaside places of resort.]
[1654] ἀνθρωπογναφεῖα.
Chapter X.—The Exercises Suited to a Good Life.
[1659] Prov. xxxi. 19, 20, Septuagint.
[1662] Ibid.
[1663] φενίνδα or φεννίς.
[1664] The text has ἦλθεν. The true reading, doubtless, is ᾖληθεν. That Pittacus exercised himself thus, is stated by Isidore of Pelusium, Diogenes, Laertius, Plutarch.
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