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Clement of Alexandria
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Introductory Note to Clement of Alexandria
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.]
[3619] ποθεῖν suggested by Lowth instead of ποιεῖν.
[3620] [The peril of wealth and “business,” thus enforced in the martyr-age, is too little insisted upon in our day; if, indeed, it is not wholly overlooked.]
[3621] ἀτεχνῶς adopted instead of ἀτέχνως of the text, and transferred to the beginning of this sentence from the close of the preceding, where it appears in the text.
[3622] See Matt. xx. 21. Mark xi. 23; 1 Cor. xiii. 2, etc.
[3623] Or His, i.e., the Lord’s.
[3624] Referring to Matt. vi. 21.
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