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Clement of Alexandria
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Introductory Note to Clement of Alexandria
[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.]
[3601] [1 Cor. vii. 29. S.]
[3602] [Brute bravery is here finely contrasted with real courage: a distinction rarely recognised by the multitude. Thus the man who trembles, yet goes into peril in view of duty, is the real hero. Yet the insensible brute, who does not appreciate the danger, often passes for his superior, with the majority of men.]
[3603] [Again note our author’s fidelity to the law of intrepid truthfulness, and compare pp. 538, 540.]
[3604] [Jas. v. 12. S.]
Chapter XII.—The True Gnostic is Beneficent, Continent, and Despises Worldly Things.
[3606] [The habit of beneficence is a form of virtue, which the Gospel alone has bred among mankind.]
[3607] ὁρᾷ: or, desires, ἑρᾷ, as Sylburgius suggests.
[3611] [This striking tribute to chaste marriage as consistent with Christian perfection exemplified by apostles, and in many things superior to the selfishness of celibacy, is of the highest importance in the support of a true Catholicity, against the false. p. 541, note 1.]
[3612] Matt. vi. 24; Luke xvi. 13.
[“Rapt into still communion that transcends
The imperfect offices of prayer and praise.”
Wordsworth: Excursion, book i. 208.]
[3614] According to the text, instead of “to behold,” as above, it would be “not to behold.” Lowth suggests the omission of “not,” (μή). Retaining it, and translating “is not even for children to behold,” the clause yields a suitable sense.
[3615] ὑπὸ τοιούτων is here substituted by Heinsius for ὑπὸ τῶν αὐτῶν.
[3617] [The stationary days, Wednesday and Friday. See constitutions called Apostolical, v. 19, and vii. 24; also Hermas, Shepherd, p. 33, this volume, and my note.]
[3618] [Rom. vi. 5. The original of Clement’s argument seems to me to imply that he is here speaking of the Paschal festival, and the true keeping of it by a moral resurrection (1 Cor. v. 7, 8). But the weekly Lord’s day enforces the same principle as the great dominical anniversary.]
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