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Clement of Alexandria
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Introductory Note to Clement of Alexandria
[2773] [The Edin. Trans. has “best at everything,” but I have corrected it in closer accord with the comparative degree in the Greek.]
[2776] [It is a sad token of our times that some women resent this law of the Christian family. In every society there must be presidency even among equals; and even Christ, though “equal to the Father,” in the Catholic theology, is yet subordinate. See Bull, Defens. Fid., Nicæn. Works, vol. v. p. 685.]
[2777] Col. iii. 18-25, iv. 1, iii. 11.
[2779] Col. iii. 12-15. [Again let us note this Catholic democracy of the Christian brotherhood (see p. 416, supra), for which indeed we should be thankful as Christ’s freemen.]
[2780] [Book iii. cap. iii., supra.]
[2781] [He who studies the Sapiential books of the Bible and Apocrypha and the Sermon on the Mount, is a philosopher of the sort here commended.]
Chapter IX.—Christ’s Sayings Respecting Martyrdom.
[2785] [Rom. x. 10. The indifference of our times is based on an abuse of the principle that God sees the heart, and needs no public (sacramental) profession of faith. Had this been Christ’s teaching, there would have been no martyrs and no visible Church to hand down the faith.]
[2786] [Rom. x. 10. The indifference of our times is based on an abuse of the principle that God sees the heart, and needs no public (sacramental) profession of faith. Had this been Christ’s teaching, there would have been no martyrs and no visible Church to hand down the faith.]
[2787] [Absolutely necessary (i.e., open profession of Chirst) to the conversion of others, and the perpetuation of the Christian Church.]
[2789] [See p. 18, this volume.]
[2791] [As a reflection of the condition and fidelity of Christians, still “sheep for the slaughter.” At such a period the tone and argument of this touching chapter are suggestive.]
Chapter X.—Those Who Offered Themselves for Martyrdom Reproved.
[2793] [An excellent rendering, which the Latin translator misses (see ed. Migne, ad loc.), the reference being to Jas. ii. 7.]
Chapter XI.—The Objection, Why Do You Suffer If God Cares for You, Answered.
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