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Clement of Alexandria
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Introductory Note to Clement of Alexandria
[856] [I am glad that our learned translator makes nothing of the statement of Photius, that one of the works of Clement (now lost) contained many things unworthy of his orthodoxy and piety; but it may be well to say here, that Photius himself suggests that heretics had corrupted some of his writings, and that his genuine works testify against these very corruptions. Dupin thinks that if Clement ever wrote such things they much have crept into his works from fragments of his earlier writings, while he was a mere Platonist, at most an inquirer into Christianity. But his great repute in the Catholic Church after his decease, is sufficient to place his character far above all suspicions of his having ever swerved from the “faith of the Church.”]
[857] The Greek is ὑπερτάτην, lit. highest. Potter appeals to the use of ὑέρτερος in Sophocles, Electr. 455, in the sense of stronger, as giving a clue to the meaning here. The scholiast in Klotz takes the words to mean that the hand is held over them.
[859] Ps. xcvi. 1, xvciii. 1.
[860] Odyssey, iv. 220.
[861] Matt. iii. 9;Luke iii. 8.
[862] Matt. iii. 7; Luke iii. 7.
[864] Probably a quotation from a hymn.
[865] Ps. cx. 3. Septuagint has, “before the morning star.”
[868] [Isa. xlii. 10. Note that in all the Psalms where this expression is used, there is a foretaste of the New Covenant and of the manifestation of the Word.]
[874] This may be translated, “of God the Christ.”
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