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Clement of Alexandria
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Introductory Note to Clement of Alexandria
[3580] Or, “persecuted;” for ἀδικουμένου (Lowth) and διωκομένου (Potter and Latin translator) have been both suggested instead of the reading of the text, διακονουμένου.
[3581] προσφέρεσθαι and προφέρεσθαι are both found here.
[3582] συνιέντας, and (Sylburgius) συνιόντας.
[3583] [Our Lord answered when adjured by the magistrate; but Christians objected to all extra-judicial oaths, their whole life being sworn to truth.]
[3584] [This must be noted, because our author seems to tolerate a departure from strict truth in the next chapter.]
Chapter IX.—Those Who Teach Others, Ought to Excel in Virtues.
[3585] [Philo is here quoted by editors, and a passage from Plato. “Sophists,” indeed! With insane persons, and in like cases, looser moralists have argued thus, but Clement justly credits it to Sophistry. Elucidation I.]
[3586] Rom. ii. 25; Eph. ii. 11. [Plainly, he introduces this example of an apparent inconsistency, because only so far he supposes the Gnostic may allow himself, without playing false, to temporize.]
[3587] 1 Cor. ix. 19, etc.
[3588] This sentence is obscure, and has been construed and amended variously.
Chapter X.—Steps to Perfection.
[3590] [Τῶν κατεπειγόντων γνῶσις. This definition must be borne in mind. It destroys all pretences that anything belonging to the faith, i.e., dogma, might belong to an esoteric system.]
[3597] [Here, also, the morality of the true Gnostic is distinguished from the system of dogmas, την τῶν δογμάτων θεωρίαν. Elucidation II.]
Chapter XI.—Description of the Gnostic’s Life.
[3598] [Others see the letter only, but the true Gnostic penetrates to the spirit, of the law.]
[3599] [Here is no toleration of untruth. See p. 538, supra.]
[3600] [The bearing of this beautiful anecdote upon clerical wedlock and the sanctity of the married life must be obvious.]
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