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Introductory Note to Clement of Alexandria
[3836] This extract, almost verbatim, has been already given from Eusebius, among the extracts from the Hypotyposes, p. 579.
[3837] See p. 219, and the argument following, supra.
[3838] [The solemn words of our Lord about the perils of wealth and “the deceitfulness of riches” are much insisted on by Hermas, especially in the beautiful opening of the Similitudes (book iii.); and it seems remarkable, that, even in the age of martyrs and confessors, such warnings should have seemed needful. Clement is deeply impressed with the duty of enforcing such doctrine; and perhaps the germ of this very interesting essay is to be found in that eloquent passage in his Stromata (book ii. cap. 5, pp. 351, 352), to which the reader may do well to recur, using it as a preface to the following pages. Elucidation I.]
[3840] This clause is defective in the ms. and is translated as supplemented by Fell from conjecture.
[3842] Mark x. 17-31. Clement does not give always Mark’s ipsissima verba.
[3843] Instead of μεῖναι Fell here suggests μὴ εἵναι, non-being.
[3849] The reading of the ms. is πραθῆναι, which is corrupt. We have changed it into περιθεῖναι. Various other emendations have been proposed. Perhaps it should be προσθεῖναι, “to add.”
[3851] The application of the words ἡ καινὴ κτισις to Christ has been much discussed. Segaar has a long note on it, the purport of which he thus sums up: ἡ καινὴ κτίσις is a creature to whom nothing has ever existed on earth equal or like, man but also God, through whom is true light and everlasting life. [The translator has largely availed himself of the valuable edition and notes of Charles Segaar (ed. Utrecht, 1816), concerning whom see Elucidation II.]
[3854] Luke v. 29; xix. 9.
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