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Clement of Alexandria
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Introductory Note to Clement of Alexandria
[905] If we read χαριέστερον, this is the only sense that can be put on the words. But if we read χαριστήριον, we may translate “a memorial of gratified lust.”
[906] Odyss., xx. 351.
Chapter IV.—The Absurdity and Shamefulness of the Images by Which the Gods are Worshipped.
[907] Vulg., Sibyllini, p. 253.
[908] [The Trent Creed makes the saints and their images objects of worship. It is evident that Clement never imagined the existence of an image among Christians. See p. 188, infra.]
[909] [The Trent Creed makes the saints and their images objects of worship. It is evident that Clement never imagined the existence of an image among Christians. See p. 188, infra.]
[910] Pantarkes is said to have been the name of a boy loved by Phidias: but as the word signifies “all-assisting,” “all-powerful,” it might also be made to apply to Zeus.
[911] Iliad, xvi. 433.
[912] Iliad, i. 221; μετὰ δαίμονας αλλους.
[913] Odyss., viii. 266.
[914] [Is not this a rebuke to many of the figures and pictures which vulgarize abodes of wealth in America?]
[915] Sibyl. Justin Martyr, Cohort. ad Græcos, p. 81. See p. 280, vol. i of this series.
[916] Ex. xx. 4. [Clement even regards the art of painters and sculptors as unlawful for Christians.]
Chapter V.—The Opinions of the Philosophers Respecting God.
Chapter VI.—By Divine Inspiration Philosophers Sometimes Hit on the Truth.
[921] Timæus.
[923] [This great truth comes forcibly from an Attic scholar. Let me refer to a very fine passage in another Christian scholar, William Cowper (Task, book ii.): “All truth is from the sempiternal source,” etc.]
[924] The Sibyl.
[925] Or Asseus, native of Asso.
Chapter VII.—The Poets Also Bear Testimony to the Truth.
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