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Clement of Alexandria
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Introductory Note to Clement of Alexandria
[2124] Isa. lix. 7, 8;Rom. iii. 16, 17.
[2125] Ps. xxxvi. 1; Rom. iii. 18.
Chapter XXVIII.—The Fourfold Division of the Mosaic Law.
[2130] ἐποπτεία, the third and highest grade of initation into the mysteries.
[2131] A saying not in Scripture; but by several of the ancient Fathers attributed to Christ or an apostle. [Jones, Canon, i. 438.]
[2132] “That thou may’st well know whether he be a god or a man.”—Homer.
[2135] The text has τετραχῶς, which is either a mistake for τριχῶς, or belongs to a clause which is wanting. The author asserts the triple sense of Scripture,—the mystic, the moral, and the prophetic. [And thus lays the egg which his pupil Origen was to hatch, and to nurse into a brood of mysticism.]
Chapter XXIX.—The Greeks But Children Compared with the Hebrews.
[2136] [Timæus, p. 22, B.—S.]
[2137] [See Shepherd of Hermas, i. p. 14, ante. S.]
[2139] Gen. xvii. 4. “As for me, behold, My convenant is with thee.”—A.V.
[2140] The allusion here is obscure. The suggestion has been made that it is to ver. 2 of the same chapter, which is thus taken to intimate that the covenant would be verbal, not written.
[2141] Referring to an apocryphal book so called. [This book is not cited as Scripture, but (valeat quantum) as containing a saying attributed to St. Peter. Clement quotes it not infrequently. A very full and valuable account of it may be found in Lardner, vol. ii. p. 252, et seqq. Not less valuable is the account given by Jones, On the Canon, vol. i. p. 355. See all Clement’s citations, same volume, p. 345, et seqq.]
[2142] Στρωματεύς
[2143] Book i. cap. i. p. 299, note 1.
[2144] Ed. Rivingtons, London, 1835.
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