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Clement of Alexandria
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Introductory Note to Clement of Alexandria
[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.
[1671] [Another law against colours in clerical attire.]
[1672] Καρὰ Λόγον. The reading in the text is κατάλογον.
[1674] [Natural instinct is St. Paul’s argument (1 Cor. xi. 14, 15); and that it rules for modesty in man as well as women, is finely illustrated by an instructive story in Herodotus (book i. 8–12). The wife of Gyges could be guilty of a heathenish revenge, but nature taught her to abhor exposure. “A woman who puts off her raiment, puts off her modesty,” said Candaules to her foolish husband.]
[1676] [Possibly used thus early as a distinction of matrons.]
[1677] Εὑτυχούσαις, for which the text has ἐντοχούσαις.
[1678] Ecclus. xxi. 21.
[1679] [How this was followed, is proved by the early Christian devices of the catacombs, contrasted with the engraved gems from Pompeii, in the Museo Borbonico at Naples.]
[1680] Masculine.
[1681] γεγλυμμἐνους, written on the margin of Codex clxv. for γεγυμνωμένους (naked) of the text. [Royal Library, Naples.]
[1683] [Here Clement’s rules are arbitrary, and based on their existing ideas of propriety. If it be not improper to shave the head, much less to shave the face, which he allows in part.]
[1684] “Not” does not occur in the mss.
[1685] For δεδοικότες, the conjectural emendation δεδυκότες, has been adopted.
[1686] φυλάσσειν, Sylburg and Bod. Reg., agree better than μαλάσσειν with the context.
[1687] [The chrism (confirmation) was thus administered then, not with material oil, and was called anointing, with reference to 1 John ii. 27. Consult Bunsen, however, who attributes great antiquity to his canons (collected in vol. iii. Hippolytus), p. 22, Church and House Book.]
[1688] 1 Cor. xi. 3. Nov. reads “Christ,” as in St. Paul, instead of “God.”
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