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Clement of Alexandria
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Introductory Note to Clement of Alexandria
[2428] i.e., not entering into a second marriage after a wife’s death. But instead of μονογαμίου some read κακογαμίου—bad marriage.
[2429] [To be a mother, indeed, one must be first a wife; the woman who has a child out of wedlock is not entitled to this holy name.]
[2430] [A holy marriage, as here so beautifully defined, was something wholly unknown to Roman and Greek civilization. Here we find the Christian family established.]
[2431] Matt. v. 32; xix. 9.
[2432] Lev. xx. 10; Deut. xxii. 22.
[2436] Reden Jesu. St. John xii. 23-26.
[2437] “Words of Jesus.” Translation (vol. v. p. 354, ed. Edinburgh, 1856).
[2438] Stromata, book ii. cap. xi. p. 358, supra.
[2439] Quotation from Milman, p. 166, this volume.
The Stromata, or Miscellanies: Book III.
[2440] After much consideration, the Editors have deemed it best to give the whole of this book in Latin. [In the former Book, Clement has shown, not without a decided leaning to chaste celibacy, that marriage is a holy estate, and consistent with the perfect man in Christ. He now enters upon the refutation of the false-Gnostics and their licentious tenets. Professing a stricter rule to begin with, and despising the ordinances of the Creator, their result was the grossest immorality in practice. The melancholy consequences of an enforced celibacy are, here, all foreseen and foreshown; and this Book, though necessarily offensive to our Christian tastes, is most useful as a commentary upon the history of monasticism, and the celibacy of priests, in the Western churches. The resolution of the Edinburgh editors to give this Book to scholars only, in the Latin, is probably wise. I subjoin a succint analysis, in the elucidations.]
Caput I.—Basilidis Sententiam de Continentia Et Nuptiis Refutat.
Caput II.—Carpocratis Et Epiphanis Sententiam de Feminarum Communitate Refutat.
[2447] Vid. Irenæum, lib. i. c. 2, p. 51.
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