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Introductory Note to Clement of Alexandria
[3545] A Platonic phrase: παίγνιον Θεοῦ.
[3546] So Sylburgius, who, instead of παιδιᾶς τέχνης of the text, reads παιδιὰν τέχνης.
[3547] God Himself is ὶερός, and everything dedicated to Him.
[3548] Montacutius suggests ἐκκλήτων, from its connection with Εκκλησία, instead of ἐκλεκτῶν. [Notes 3 and 5, p. 290, supra.]
Chapter VI.—Prayers and Praise from a Pure Mind, Ceaselessly Offered, Far Better Than Sacrifices.
[3549] Translated as arranged by Grotius.
[3550] These lines are translated as arranged by Grotius, who differs in some parts from the text.
[3551] ἐφ᾽ οἷς, is substituted by Lowth for ἅ in the text.
[3552] δρυῶν, a probable conjecture of Gataker for the reading of the text, δαιμόνων.
[3553] ἀνθρώπου supplied by Lowth.
[3554] [Again the spiritualizing of incense.]
[3555] [This is extraordinary language in Clement, whose views of Gentilism are so charitable. Possibly it is mere pleasantry, though he speaks of idolatry only. He recognises the divine institution of sacrifice, elsewhere.]
[3556] ψυχή, animal life.
[3557] i.e., in the institution of the scape-goat.
[3558] Or, of water. For instead of ὑλικῆς in the text, it is proposed to read ὑδατικῆς.
[3559] [Again, for the Gospel-day, he spiritualizes the incense of the Law.]
[3560] Consult Matt. iii. 11; Luke iii. 16; Heb. iv. 12. [See what is said of the philosophic ἐκπύρωσις (book v. cap. i. p. 446, supra, this volume) by our author. These passages bear on another theological matter, of which see Kaye, p. 466.]
[3561] [See useful note of Kaye, p. 309.]
Chapter VII.—What Sort of Prayer the Gnostic Employs, and How It is Heard by God.
[3563] [It is hardly needful to say that our author means “not merely in a specified place,” etc. See p. 290, supra, as to time and place.]
[3564] [See p. 200, this volume; also, infra, this chapter, p. 537.]
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