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Clement of Alexandria
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Introductory Note to Clement of Alexandria
[1945] [Here he expresses merely as an opinion, his “gnostic” ideas as to philosophy, and the salvability of the heathen.]
[1946] Namely Jesus: John viii. 12.
[1947] We have adopted the translation of Potter, who supposes a reference to the fate of Pentheus. Perhaps the translation should be: “excluding Christ, as the apartments destined for women exclude the man;” i.e., all males.
[1949] [His grudging of the term “gnostic” to unworthy pretenders, illustrates the spirit in which we must refuse to recognise the modern (Trent) theology of the Latins, as in any sense Catholic.]
[1950] Eccles. vii. 13, according to Sept.
Chapter XIV.—Succession of Philosophers in Greece.
[1953] [Though Canon Farrar minimizes the Greek scholarship of St. Paul, as is now the fashion, I think Clement credits him with Greek learning. The apostle’s example seems to have inspired the philosophical arguments of Clement, as well as his exuberance of poetical and mythological quotation.]
[1955] “Nequid Nimis.” Μηδὲν ἄγαν.
[1956] Odyss., viii. 351.
[1957] Μελέτη πάντα καθαιρεῖ.
[1958] Or Eubulus.
[1959] [Clement’s Attic scholarship never seduces him from this fidelity to the Scriptures. The argument from superior antiquity was one which the Greeks were sure to feel when demonstrated.]
Chapter XV.—The Greek Philosophy in Great Part Derived from the Barbarians.
[1960] όμακοεῖον.
[1961] Greece is ample, O Cebes, in which everywhere there are good men; and many are the races of the barbarians, over all of whom you must search, seeking such a physician, sparing neither money nor pains.—Phædo, p. 78 A.
[1962] This sense is obtained by the omission of μόνους from the text, which may have crept in in consequence of occuring in the previous text, to make it agree with what Plato says, which is, “And both among Greeks and barbarians, there are many who have shown many and illustrious deeds, generating virtue of every kind, to whom many temples on account of such sons are raised.”—Symp., p. 209 E.
[1963] Plato, Timæus, p. 47 A.
[1964] A mistake of Clement for The Republic.
[1965] Timæus, p. 22 B.
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