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Clement of Alexandria
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Introductory Note to Clement of Alexandria
[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.
[1665] Gen. xxx. 37. Not “poplar,” as in A.V. [See Abp. Leighton on “Laban’s lambs,” Comm. on St. Peter, part i. p. 360, and questionable note of an admirable editor, same page.]
[1667] [The old canons allowed to clergymen the recreation of fishing, but not the chase, or fowling. Of this, the godly Izaak Walton fails not to remind us. Complete Angler, p. 38, learned note, and preface by the late Dr. Bethune. New York, 1847.]
Chapter XI.—A Compendious View of the Christian Life.
[1669] [Surely the costly and gorgeous ecclesiastical raiment of the Middle Ages is condemned by Clement’s primitive maxims.]
[1670] Plato’s words are: “The web is not to be more than a woman’s work for a month. White colour is peculiarly becoming for the gods in other things, but especially in cloth. Dyes are not to be applied, except for warlike decorations.”—Plato: De Legibus, xii. 992.
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