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Clement of Alexandria
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Introductory Note to Clement of Alexandria
Chapter VI.—The Benefit of Culture.
[1870] Prov. vi. 6, 8. [The bee is not instanced in Scripture.]
[1871] Matt. vi. 6; John iv. 23.
[1872] [Illustrative of the esoteric principle of Clement. SeeElucidation IX., infra.]
Chapter VII.—The Eclectic Philosophy Paves the Way for Divine Virtue.
[1876] [Most important as defining Clement’s system, and his use of this word, “philosophy.”]
[1877] Something seems wanting to complete the sense.
[1879] [Stillingfleet, Origines Sacræ, vol. i. p.55. Important reference.]
[1883] [See vol. i. p. 18, First Epistle of Clement, chap. xlviii. S.]
Chapter VIII.—The Sophistical Arts Useless.
[1884] ἐπιχειρημα.
[1885] 1 Tim. vi. 3-5. [He treats the sophists with Platonic scorn, but adopts St. Paul’s enlarged idea of sophistry.]
[1886] Phœnissæ, 471, 472.
[1887] [He has no idea of salvation by any other name, though he regards Gentile illumination as coming through philosophy.]
[1888] Where, nobody knows.
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