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Clement of Alexandria
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Introductory Note to Clement of Alexandria
[2186] Χριστός and χρηστός are very frequently compared in the patristic authors.
[2188] Plato’s sister’s son and successor.
[2189] σπουδαῖος.
Chapter V.—He Proves by Several Examples that the Greeks Drew from the Sacred Writers.
[2190] The words of Jacob to Esau slightly changed from the Septuagint: “For God hath shown mercy to me, and I have all things”—οτι ἠλέησέ με ὁ Θεὸς καὶ ἔστι μοι πάντα (Gen. xxxiii. 11).
[2193] So the name Israel is explained, Stromata, i. p. 334, Potter; [see p. 300, supra.]
[2195] [This passage, down to the reference to Plato, is unspeakably sublime. One loves Clement for this exclusive loyalty to the Saviour.]
[2197] The Stoics defined piety as “ the knowledge of the worship of God.”
[2199] Socrates in the Phœdrus, near the end, [p. 279.]
[2200] Introduced by Plato in The Laws, conversing with Socrates.
[2201] Taken likely from some apocryphal writing.
[2206] Isa. liii. 3. [That is after he became the Man of Sorrows; not originally.]
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