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Clement of Alexandria
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Introductory Note to Clement of Alexandria
[2095] [As to our author’s chronology, see Elucidation XV., infra.]
Chapter XXII.—On the Greek Translation of the Old Testament.
[2096] [The work of Ezra, as Clement testifies concerning it, adds immensely to the common ideas of his place in the history of the canon.]
[2097] [Concerning the LXX., see cap. vii. p. 308, note 4, supra.]
Chapter XXIII.—The Age, Birth, and Life of Moses.
[2098] This is the account given by Philo, of whose book on the life of Moses this chapter is an epitome, for the most part in Philo’s words.
[2099] “He was the seventh in descent from the first, who, being a foreigner, was the founder of the whole Jewish race.”—Philo.
[2100] [See Ex. ii. 10.]
[2101] [Concerning this, see Deut. xxxiii. 5. And as to “mystics,” with caution, may be read advantageously, the article “Mysteries,” Encyclop. Britann., vol. xxiii. p. 124.]
[2103] Adopting the reading φιλοσοφίαν ἀΐ´ξας instead of φύσιν ἄξας.
[2105] [Eusebius, Præp Evang., ix. 4.]
Chapter XXIV.—How Moses Discharged the Part of a Military Leader.
[2106] Not in Scripture. The reference may be to Matt. vi. 33.
[2108] ἀ privative, and πολλοί, many.
Chapter XXV.—Plato an Imitator of Moses in Framing Laws.
[2109] “I AM,” A.V.: Ex. iii. 14.
[2110] From the ancient derivation of this word from θεος.
[2111] Gal. iii. 19, 23, 24.
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