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ANF Pseudo-Clementine The Recognitions of Clement
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Introductory Notice to The Recognitions of Clement.
Chapter XLVI.—Christ Acknowledged the God of the Jews.
[658] [Compare Homily XVII. 4.—R.]
[659] Matt. xi. 27. [Comp. Luke x. 22. This objection is given in Homilies XVII. 4, XVIII. 4.—R.]
Chapter XLVIII.—Peter’s Answer.
Chapter XLIX.—The Supreme Light.
[661] This chapter presents the topic which is made the main point in a subsequent discussion with Simon; see Homily XVIII.—R.]
Chapter L.—Simon’s Presumption.
[662] [With chaps. 50, 51, comp. Homily XVII. 13, etc.—R.]
Chapter LIII.—Simon’s Blasphemy.
[663] We render by a periphrasis the expression ineffabili quadam ratione compertum. The meaning seems to be, that the belief of the existence and unity of God is not the result of reasoning, but of intuition or instinct.
[664] [The argument of Simon here differs from that represented in Homilies XVII., XVIII. There Simon asserts that the Framer of the world is not the highest God, because He is not both just and good. Comp. also book iii. 37, 38.—R.]
Chapter LV.—Simon’s Objections Turned Against Himself.
[665] [The attitude of the Apostle Peter toward the Old Testament is differently represented in the Homilies, where false views are admitted to exist in the Scriptures. Comp. Homilies II. 38, 40, 41, 51, III. 4, 5, etc.—R.]
Chapter LVI.—No God Above the Creator.
[666] That is, you take the idea of substance from the God of the Jews, and only enlarge it by the addition of the words above all.
Chapter LX.—The Creator the Supreme God.
Chapter LXII.—Peter’s Experience of Imagination.
[668] [This story (chaps. 62–65) is peculiar to the Recognitions. In Homily XVII. 14–19 there is an argument against the trustworthiness of supernatural visions, which is supposed to be anti-Pauline in its aim.—R.]
Chapter LXVI.—Existence and Conception.
[669] [The remaining chapters of this book hare no exact parallel in the Homilies.—R.]
[670] That is, have no visible or sensible species, according to the Platonic theory of perception.
Chapter LXXI.—Separation from the Unclean.
[671] [Comp. book i. 19, vii. 29; Homilies I. 22, XIII. 4.—R.]
[673] [On the demonology of this work see book iv. 15–19; comp. Homily IX. 8–22.—R.]
[674] [The larger part of book iii. has no direct parallel in the Homilies, though, of course, many of the views presented are given in the latter under different circumstances.—R.]
Chapter I.—Pearls Before Swine.
Chapter XII.—Second Day’s Discussion.
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