Clement of Alexandria

Footnotes

Introductory Note to Clement of Alexandria

^[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.”

^[1689] 1 Tim. ii. 9.

^[1690] 1 Pet. iii. 1-4.

^[1691] In reference to Prov. xxxi. 22.

^[1692] Prov. xxxi. 26-28, 30, quoted from memory, and with variety of reading.

^[1693] Prov. xii. 4.

^[1694] Prov. v. 3-5, Septuagint.

^[1695] We have read from the New College ms. σωφροσύνη for σωφροσύνης.

^[1696] From some comic poet.

^[1697] Some read ᾤραν ἀπολείπει. [New College ms.] In the translation the conjecture ᾤρα ἀπολείπειν is adopted.

^[1698] An adaptation of Prov. v. 5, 6.

^[1699] An imitation of Zeno’s saying, “It is better to slip with the feet than the tongue.”