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ANF Pseudo-Clementine The Recognitions of Clement
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Introductory Notice to The Recognitions of Clement.
[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.
[676] Chaps ii.–xii. are wanting in the mss. of best authority; and it seems to us indisputable that they form no part of the original work. For this reason, and because we have found them utterly untranslatable, we have omitted them.
[677] [Comp. Homily XVII. 2 for a similar accusation made by Simon.—R.]
Chapter XIII.—Simon a Seducer.
Chapter XIV.—Simon Claims the Fulfilment of Peter’s Promise.
[679] Luke viii. 5. [Comp. Matt. 13.3; Mark 4.3, etc.—R.]
Chapter XV.—Simon’s Arrogance.
[680] [In Homily XIX. the discussion with Simon is respecting the existence of the evil one. Here the treatment is apparently of a higher philosophical character.—R.]
Chapter XX.—Common Principles.
Chapter XXI.—Freedom of the Will.
[682] [Comp. Homilies XI. 8, XIX. 15. But in the Recognitions this topic is more frequently treated. See chap. 26, and elsewhere.—R.]
Chapter XXIV.—God the Author of Good, Not of Evil.
[683] [Comp. Homily XIX. 12. The argument here is far more philosophical.—R.]
Chapter XXVI.—No Goodness Without Liberty.
[684] [Comp. Homily XIX. 15.—R.]
Chapter XXVII.—The Visible Heaven: Why Made.
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