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Introductory Note to Clement of Alexandria
[3252] [Instructive remarks on the confusions, etc., in Greek authors, may be seen in Schliemann, Mycenœ, p. 36, ed. New York, 1878.]
Chapter V.—The Greeks Had Some Knowledge of the True God.
[3253] We have the same statement made, Stromata, i. 19, p. 322, ante, Potter p. 372; also v. 14, p. 465, ante, Potter p. 730,—in all of which Lowth adopts περίφρασιν as the true reading, instead of περίφασιν. In the first of these passages, Clement instances as one of the circumlocutions or roundabout expressions by which God was known to the Greek poets and philosophers, “The Unknown God.” Joannes Clericus proposes to read παράφασιν (palpitatio), touching, feeling after. [See Strom., p. 321, and p. 464, note 1.]
[3254] i.e., “The Word of God’s power is His Son.”
[3255] Instead of ἡν … ἐξουσίας, as in the text, we read ὦν εξουσίαν .
[3256] None of the attempts to amend this passage are entirely successful. The translation adopts the best suggestions made.
[3257] [A strange passage; but its “darkness visible” seems to lend some help to the understanding of the puzzle about the second-first Sabbath of Luke vi. 1.]
[3258] i.e., of atonement.
[3259] Jer. xxxi. 31, 32; Heb. viii. 8-10.
[3260] Most likely taken from some apocryphal book bearing the name of Paul.
Chapter VI.—The Gospel Was Preached to Jews and Gentiles in Hades.
[3261] [The ideas on which our author bases his views of Christ’s descent into the invisible world, are well expounded by Kaye, p. 189.]
[3262] Matt. xxiii. 4; Luke xi. 46.
[3263] Matt. ix. 22, etc.
[3264] The passage which seems to be alluded to here is Job xxviii. 22, “Destruction and Death say, We have heard the fame thereof with our ears.”
[3265] εὐηγγελίσθαι used actively for εὐαγγελίσαι, as also immediately after εὐηγγελισμένοι for εὐαγγελισάμενοι.
[3267] Potter, p. 452. [See ii. p. 357, supra.]
[3268] Ezek. xviii. 23, 32; xxxiii. 11, etc.
[3269] Hermas, book iii. chap. xvi. p. 49. Quoted also in Stromata, ii. p. 357, ante, from which the text here is corrected; Potter, 452.
[3271] τάξιν.
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