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Clement of Alexandria
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Introductory Note to Clement of Alexandria
[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.]
[977] Iliad, ii. 315.
[980] Isa. liv. 17, where Sept. reads, “ye shall be righteous.”
[985] Isa. i. 20, xxxiii. 11.
[986] Minerva.
[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.]
[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.
[994] [1 Pet. ii. 17. This appeal in behalf of the sanctity of man as man, shows the workings of the apostolic precept.]
[995] The expression “conquered by brass or iron” is borrowed from Homer (Il., viii. 534). Brass, or copper, and iron were the metals of which arms were made.
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