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Clement of Alexandria
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Introductory Note to Clement of Alexandria
[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.
[2145] Book i. cap. i. p. 301,note 9.
[2146] See Jones, On the Canon, vol. iii. p. 44
[2147] Antiquities, vol. i. p. 66, ed. Bohn.
[2148] Book i. cap. i. p. 301, note 10.
[2149] Book i. cap. i. p. 302, note 5.
[2150] p. 428, infra.
[2151] See also Fragments, p. 164, vol. ix. this series, Edin. Edition.
[2152] For matters further pertaining to Clement, consult Routh, i. 140, i. 148, i. 127, i. 169, ii. 59 (Eusebius, vi. 13), ii. 165, 167, 168, 171–172, 179, 307, 416, 491.
[2153] [“The Epistles of the New Testament have all a particular reference to the condition and usages of the Christian world at the time they were written. Therefore as they cannot be thoroughly understood, unless that condition and those usages are known and attended to, so futher, though they be known, yet if they be discontinued or changed … references to such circumstances, now ceased or altered, cannot, at this time, be urged in that manner and with that force which they were to the primitive Christians.” This quotation from one of Bishop Butler’s Ethical Sermons has many bearings on the study of our author; but the sermon itself, with its sequel, On Human Nature, may well be read in connection with the Stromata. See Butler, Ethical Discourses, p. 77. Philadelphia, 1855.]
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