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Clement of Alexandria
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Introductory Note to Clement of Alexandria
[3354] Wisd. vi. 10.
[3355] Wisd. vii. 16.
[3356] Wisd. xiv. 2, 3.
[3357] That is, resurrection effected by divine power.
[3358] Such seems the only sense possible of this clause,—obtained, however, by substituting for συνάλογοι λόγοὐ κ.τ.λ., σύλλογοι λόγον κ.τ.λ.
[3363] Prudence, fortitude, justice, temperance. [Known as the philosophical virtues.]
Chapter XII.—Human Nature Possesses an Adaptation for Perfection; The Gnostic Alone Attains It.
[3364] i.e., that mentioned in the last sentence of chap xi., which would more appropriately be transferred to chap. xii.
[3365] Wisd. ii. 22, 25.
[3367] Sylburgius proposes κοσμικάς, worldly, instead of κοσμίας, decorous; in which case the sentence would read: “and [true] poverty, destitution in worldly desires.”
[3369] The reading of the text has, “not of the same mother, much less of the same father,” which contradicts Gen. xx. 12, and has been therefore amended as above.
[3371] Or, “judging from the motion of the soul;” the text reading here οὐ κινήματος ψυχῆς, for which, as above, is proposed, οὐκ ἐκ κινήματος ψυχῆν.
[3372] Tob. xii. 8.
[3373] Metaphorical expression for perfect. The phrase “a quadrangular man” is found in Plato and Aristotle. [The proverbial τετρἀγονος ἄνευ ψόγου, of the Nicomach. Ethics, i. 10, and of Plato in the Protagoras, p. 154. Ed. Bipont, 1782.]
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