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Clement of Alexandria
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Introductory Note to Clement of Alexandria
[3031] 1 Cor. xi. 3; 2 Cor. xi. 31.
[3032] And the whole place is very correctly called the Logeum (λογεῖον), since everything in heaven has been created and arranged in accordance with right reason (λόγοις) and proportion (Philo, vol. iii. p. 195, Bohn’s translation).
[3034] i.e., the oracular breastplate.
Chapter VIII.—The Use of the Symbolic Style by Poets and Philosophers.
[3036] [Kaye, p. 181.]
[3037] This line has given commentators considerable trouble. Diodorus says that the Telchimes—fabled sons of Ocean—were the first inhabitants of Rhodes.
[3038] σύνεσις. Sylburgius, with much probability, conjectures σύνδεσις, binding together.
[3039] Βέδυ, Ζάψ, Χθών, Πλῆκτρον, Σφίγξ, Κναξζβί, Χθύπτης, Φλεγμός, Δρώψ. On the interpretation of which, much learning and ingenuity have been expended.
[3040] [See valuable references and note on the Sibylline and Orphic sayings. Leighton, Works, vol. vi. pp. 131, 178.]
[3041] Orpheus.
[3042] Lev. xi; Deut. xiv.
[3044] [Epistle of Barnabas, vol. i, p. 143, 144. S.]
[3048] Matt. xi. 13; Luke xvi. 16.
[3049] Mark i. 7; Luke iii. 16; John i. 27.
Chapter IX.—Reasons for Veiling the Truth in Symbols.
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