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Clement of Alexandria
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Introductory Note to Clement of Alexandria
[3519] Lowth here reads ἐκτεινομένῳ, agreeing with πνεύματι, instead of ἐκτεινομένη, as in the Oxford text.
[3521] Instead of ἐπίγησιν, the corrupt reading of the text, ἐπίκτησιν (as above), ἐπίδοσιν, and ἐπ᾽ ἐξήγησιν have been proposed.
[3523] The text has ὅτε but the sense seems to require, as Sylburgius suggests, ὅθεν or ὥστε.
[3524] [The salvability of the heathen through Christ, is everywhere conspicuous in our author’s system; but there is a solemn dignity in the concluding paragraphs of this chapter, which deserves reflection. It would not be becoming for me to express my own views upon the subject here, but it is one assuming fresh importance in our day.]
[3525] Instead of ἑλόμενος, Sylburgius proposes ἁλάμενος, making a leap by faith to perfection.
[3526] The reading varies here. For οἰκήσεις of the text, Heinsius and the Latin translator adopt οἰκείαν, which, on the whole, seems preferable to οἴ´κησιν or ἡκούσης.
Chapter III.—The Gnostic Aims at the Nearest Likeness Possible to God and His Son.
[3530] Rom. vi. 6, 7;2 Cor. x. 5; Eph. iv. 22-24; Col. iii. 8, 9, etc.
[3532] κρατεῖν is hear supplied to complete the sense.
[3533] ἀντιτάσσεσθαι is suggested instead of ἀντιτάσσεται of the text.
[3534] ἄμα is here, on the authority of a ms., and with the approval of Sylburguis, to be substituted for ἅλμα.
[3535] κόσμιος, καὶ ὑπερκόσμιος. The author plays on the double meaning of κόσμος, world or order.
[3537] τὸ θέατρον used for the place, the spectacle, and the spectators.
[3538] Ἀδράστεια, a name given to Nemesis, said to be from an altar erected to her by Adrastus; but as used here, and when employed as an adjective qualifying Nemesis, it has reference to διδράσκω.
Chapter IV.—The Heathens Made Gods Like Themselves, Whence Springs All Superstition.
[3539] Iliad, ix. 533, etc.
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