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Introductory Note to Clement of Alexandria

[973] Ps. xxxiv. 8, where Clem. has read Χριστός for χρηστός.

[974] Ps. xxxiv. 11.

[975] [Here seems to be a running allusion to the privileges of the Christian Church in its unity, and to the “Psalms and hymns and spiritual songs,” which were so charming a feature of Christian worship. Bunsen, Hippolytus, etc., vol. ii. p. 157.]

Chapter X.—Answer to the Objection of the Heathen, that It Was Not Right to Abandon the Customs of Their Fathers.

[976] Zech. iii. 2.

[977] Iliad, ii. 315.

[978] Isa. i. 3.

[979] Isa. liv. 17.

[980] Isa. liv. 17, where Sept. reads, “ye shall be righteous.”

[981] Isa. lv. 1.

[982] 1 Cor. ii. 9.

[983] Deut. xxx. 15.

[984] Isa. i. 19.

[985] Isa. i. 20, xxxiii. 11.

[986] Minerva.

[987] Gen. i. 26.

[988] [Immersion was surely the form of primitive baptism, but these words, if not a reference to that sacrament, must recall Isa. lii. 15.]

[989] [This fine passage will be recalled by what Clement afterward, in the Stromata, says of prayer. Book vii. vol. ii. p. 432. Edin.]

[990] John iii. 19.

[991] Odyss., xiii. 203.

[992] A translation in accordance with the Latin version would run thus: “While a certain previous conception of divine power is nevertheless discovered within us.” But adopting that in the text the argument is: there is unquestionably a providence implying the exertion of divine power. That power is not exercised by idols or heathen gods. The only other alternative is, that it is exercised by the one self-existent God.

[993] Ps. xxiv. 1; 1 Cor. x. 26, 28.

 

 

 

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