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Clement of Alexandria
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Introductory Note to Clement of Alexandria
Chapter XIV.—Degrees of Glory in Heaven.
[3391] έποπτεία, the third and highest grade of initiation of the Eleusinian mysteries (Liddell and Scott’s Lexicon).
[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.
[3400] The author reckons three kinds of actions, the first of which is κατόρθωμα, right or perfect action, which is characteristic of the perfect man and Gnostic alone, and raises him (εἰς τὴν ἀνωτάτω δόξαν) to the height of glory. The second is the class of τῶν μέσων, medium, or intermediate actions, which are done by less perfect believers, and procure a lower grade of glory. In the third place he reckons sinful actions (ἀμαρτητικάς), which are done by those who fall away from salvation (Potter).
[3401] [2 Pet. i. 11.]
[3402] To produce this sense, καθῆκεν of the text is by Potter changed into καθῆκειν.
[3403] On the authority of one of the ms., Sylburgius reads ὄλον instead of λόγον in the text.
[3404] Matt. viii. 26; Mark viii. 36; Luke ix. 25.
[3405] From the Acharneis of Aristophanes, quoted also by Cicero; with various readings in each. Heinsius substitutes παλαμάσθων for παλαμᾶσθαι of the text.
[3406] [Bunsen, Hippol., iii. p. 141.]
[3407] Wisd. iii. 9.
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