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Clement of Alexandria
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Introductory Note to Clement of Alexandria
[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.
[2210] This famous line of Epicharmus the comic poet is quoted by Tertullian (de Anima), by Plutarch, by Jamblichus, and Porphyry.
[2211] Ecclus. vi. 33.
Chapter VI.—The Excellence and Utility of Faith.
[2213] Rom. x. 17, 14, 15.
[2214] Loadstone. [Philosophy of the second centure. See note in Migne.]
[2215] 1 Cor. i. 9, x. 13.
[2217] Not in Script.
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