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Clement of Alexandria
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Introductory Note to Clement of Alexandria
[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.]
[2207] πιστότης.
[2208] Ecclus. xv. 10.
[2209] Laertius, in opposition to the general account, ascribes the celebrated αὐτὸς εφα to Pythagoras Zacynthus. Suidas, who with the most ascribes it to the Samian Pythagoras, says that it meant “God has said,” as he professed to have received his doctrines from God.
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