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ANF Pseudo-Clementine The Recognitions of Clement
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Introductory Notice to The Recognitions of Clement.
[697] [Comp. book ii. 15 and Homily II. 26.—R.]
[698] Evidently parodied from Acts viii. 18-24. This incident is peculiar to the Recognitions.—R.]
[699] [Compare with this chapter book ii. 9, 14; Homily II. 32.—R.]
Chapter XLIX.—Simon’s Retreat.
[700] [This account of the close of the discussion is peculiar to the Recognitions.—R.]
Chapter LV.—Ten Commandments Corresponding to the Plagues of Egypt.
[703] Ex. vii., viii.
Chapter LIX.—Good and Evil in Pairs.
[706] [The substance of chaps. 59, 60, occurs in Homily II. 33, 34, just before the postponement of the discussion with Simon.—R.]
[707] [On the doctrine of pairs compare Homily II. 15, etc., 33; III. 23.—R.]
Chapter LXII.—The Christian Life.
Chapter LXIII.—A Deserter from Simon’s Camp.
[709] [This incident is narrated only in the Recognitions.—R.]
Chapter LXIV.—Declaration of Simon’s Wickedness.
[710] [With the remainder of the book compare Homily III. 58–73. The resemblance is general rather than particular.—R.]
Chapter LXV.—Peter Resolves to Follow Simon.
[711] Matt. xviii. 7; Luke xvii. 1.
[712] [In the Homilies full details are given respecting the choice of Zacchæus (who is identified with the publican in Luke xix.), his unwillingness to serve; precepts are also added concerning Church officers.—R.]
Chapter LXVII.—Invitation to Baptism.
[713] This may be translated, “that he may partake of holy things.” Cotelerius supposes the words “holy things” to mean the body and blood of Christ.
Chapter LXVIII.—Twelve Sent Before Him.
[714] [Compare with this chapter the lists in book ii. 1 and in Homily II. 1. The special significance attached to the number twelve is peculiar to this passage.—R.]
Chapter LXXIII.—Tidings of Simon.
[715] [In Homily III. 58 Simon is represented as doing great miracles at Tyre. Peter follows him there, but finds that he has gone. The long discussions with him are assigned to Laodicea. See Homilies, xvi., etc.—R.]
Chapter LXXV.—Contents of Clement’s Despatches to James.
[716] Cotelerius remarks that these ten books previously sent to James (if they ever existed) ought to be distinguished from the ten books of the Recognitions, which were addressed to the same James, but written after those now mentioned.
[717] [This chapter furnishes some positive evidence that the Recognitions are based upon an earlier work. The topics here named do not correspond with those of the Homilies, except in the most general way. Hence this passage does not favour the theory that the author of the Recognitions had the Homilies before him when he wrote. Even in xvi.–xix. of the later work, which Uhlhorn regarded as the nucleus of the entire literature, the resemblances are slight. As already intimated (see Introductory Notice, p. 71), Uhlhorn has abandoned this theory.
On the other hand the chapter bears marks of being the conclusion to a complete document. It can therefore be urged in support of the new view of Lehmann (Die Clementinischen Schriften, Gotha, 1869), that the Recognitions are made up of two parts (books i.–iii., iv.–x.) by two different authors, both parts being based on earlier documents. This chapter is regarded by Hilgenfeld as containing a general outline of the Kerygma Petri, a Jewish-Christian document of Roman origin. In i. 27–72 he finds a remnant of this document incorporated in the Recognitions.—R.]
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