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Clement of Alexandria
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Introductory Note to Clement of Alexandria
[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.
[2794] [Self-condemned. A pathetic description of the indifference of the Roman law to the rights of the people. Pilates all were these judges of Christ’s followers or Gallios at best.]
[2796] Wisd. iii. 1. [This is pronounced canonical Scripture by the Trent theology, and yet the same theology asserts a purgatory to which none but the faithful are committed.]
Chapter XII.—Basilides’ Idea of Martyrdom Refuted.
[2798] [This exposition of Basilides is noteworthy. It is very doubtful, whether, even in poetry, the Platonic idea of pre-existence should be encouraged by Christians, as, e.g., in that sublimest of moderns lyrics, Wordsworth’s ode on Immortality and Childhood.]
[2800] The text has παιδευτικῆς τέχνης τῆς τοιάδε, for which Sylburgius suggests τοιᾶσδε, as translated above.
Chapter XIII.—Valentinian’s Vagaries About the Abolition of Death Refuted.
[2802] [Kaye, p. 322.]
[2803] [See the Valentinian jargon about the Demiurge (rival of the true Creator), in Irenæus, vol. i. p. 322, this series.]
[2804] Phil. i. 29, 30; ii. 1, 2, 17.
[2807] [Kaye, p. 405.]
[2808] [The valuable note of Routh, on a fragment of Melito, should be consulted. Reliquiæ, vol i. p. 140.]
Chapter XIV.—The Love of All, Even of Our Enemies.
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