Appearance      Marker   

 

<<  Contents  >>

Clement of Alexandria

Footnotes

Show All Footnotes

Show All Footnotes & Jump to 3387

Introductory Note to Clement of Alexandria

[3377] John xiii. 33.

[3378] This is cited by Diogenes Laertius as the first dictum of Epicurus. It is also referred to as such by Cicero, De Natura Deorum, and by others.

Chapter XIII.—Degrees of Glory in Heaven Corresponding with the Dignities of the Church Below.

[3379] In opposition to the heretical opinion, that those who are saved have an innate original excellence, on account of which they are saved. [Elucidation VIII.]

[3380] Or, “elected”—χειροτονούμενος. Acts xiv. 23, “And when they had ordained (χειροτονήσαντες) them elders in every church.” A different verb (καθίστημι) is used in Tit. i. 5.

[3381] Presbytery or eldership.

[3382] πσωτοκαθεδρία,Mark xii. 39, Luke xx. 46.

[3383] Rev. iv. 4, xi. 16.

[3384] Eph ii. 14, 15, 16, iv. 13.

[3385] προκοπαί. [Book vii. cap. i, infra.]

[3386] 1 Thess. iv. 17.

[3387] 1 Cor. xv. 41.

[3388] Eph. iv. 13.

Chapter XIV.—Degrees of Glory in Heaven.

[3389] Ps. xv. i.

[3390] John i. 47; Matt v. 8.

[3391] έποπτεία, the third and highest grade of initiation of the Eleusinian mysteries (Liddell and Scott’s Lexicon).

[3392] John x. 16.

[3393] John x. 27.

[3394] Mark v. 34, etc.

[3395] The text here has ὄτι, for which has been substituted (Potter and Sylb.) οί, as above; τήν after αὐλῆς (fold) requires to be omitted also in rendering the sentence as we have done.

[3396] Wisd. iv. 17.

[3397] Wisd. v. 3-5.

 

 

 

10 per page

 

 

 Search Comments 

 

This page has been visited 0451 times.

 

<<  Contents  >>