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Clement of Alexandria
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Introductory Note to Clement of Alexandria
[3648] εὐπειθεῖς here substituted by Sylburgius for ἀπειθσῖς. May not the true reading be ἀπαθείς, as the topic is ἀπαθεια?
[3653] ἄνευ: or above, ἄνω.
[3656] [Ps. lxxiii. 1. The “Israelite indeed” is thus recognised as the wheat, although tares grow with it in the Militant Church. See cap xv., infra.]
[3657] Matt. v.; sic. τέλειοι, τελείως.
Chapter XV.—The Objection to Join the Church on Account of the Diversity of Heresies Answered.
[3658] [Matt. xiii. 28. But for our Lord’s foreshowing, the existence of so much evil in the Church would be the greatest stumbling-block of the faithful.]
[3659] The “eccleisastical canon” here recognised, marks the existence, at this period, of canon-law. See Bunsen, Hippol., book iii. p. 105.]
[3661] δοκίμους, same word as above translated “approved.”
[3662] [A most important testimony to the primitive rule of faith. Negatively it demonstrates the impossibility of any primitive conception of the modern Trent doctrine, that the holder of a particular see is the arbiter of truth and the end of controversy.]
[3663] [A just comment on the late Vatican Council, and its shipwreck of the faith. See Janus, Pope and Council, p. 182.]
Chapter XVI.—Scripture the Criterion by Which Truth and Heresy are Distinguished.
[3664] [One of the most important testimonies of primitive antiquity. Elucidation III.]
[3666] [A reference to the sickening and profane history of an apocryphal book, hereafter to be noted. But this language is most noteworthy as an absolute refutation of modern Mariolatry.]
[3667] Tertullian, who treats of the above-mentioned topic, attributes these words to Ezekiel: but they are sought for in vain in Ezekiel, or in any other part of Scripture. [The words are not found in Ezekiel, but such was his understanding of Ezek. xliv. 2.]
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