| << | Contents | >> |
Clement of Alexandria
Show All Footnotes & Jump to 1962
Introductory Note to Clement of Alexandria
[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.
[1966] About which the learned have tortured themselves greatly. The reference is doubtless here to some pillar inscribed with what was deemed a writing of importance. But as to Acicarus nothing is known.
[1967] Otherwise Zaratus, or Zabratus, or Zaras, who, Huet says, was Zoroaster.
[1968] [Direct testimony, establishing one important fact in the history of philosophy.]
[1969] Adopting Lowth’s emendation, Σιβύλλην φἀναι.
[1970] Or, according to the reading in Pausanias, and the statement of Plutarch, “who was the daughter of Poseidon.”
[1971] Or Samanæi.
[1972] Altered for Ἀλλόβιοι in accordance with the note of Montacutius, who cites Strabo as an authority for the existence of a sect of Indian sages called Hylobii, ὑλόβιοι—Silvicolæ.
Search Comments
This page has been visited 0451 times.
| << | Contents | >> |
10 per page