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ANF Pseudo-Clementine The Recognitions of Clement
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Introductory Notice to The Recognitions of Clement.
[718] [In books iv.–vi. the scene is laid at Tripolis. The same city is the locality to which Homilies VIII.–XI. are assigned. The intervening portion (Homilies IV.–VII.) gives the details of the journey here alluded to, telling of various discourses at Tyre. Some of the matter of these discourses occurs in the Recognitions, but under different circumstances. The heathen disputants are not the same.
The parallelisms of the portions assigned to Tripolis are as follows: book iv. has its counterpart in Homily VIII. and in much of Homily IX.; book v. has a parallel in Homily X. and it, parts of XI.; book vi. in its general outline resembles Homily XI.
The discourses of the Apostle as given in the Recognitions are more orderly and logical than those in the Homilies. The views presented differ somewhat, in accordance with the general character of the two works. Much of the matter in the Recognitions occurs in a different order in the Homilies, but the internal evidence seems to point to the priority of the former. Both might be different manipulations of a common documentary source, but that theory is not necessarily applicable to these portions of the literature.—R.]
[719] [“Maroones,” Homily VIII. 1.—R.]
[720] [Comp. Homily VIII. 3.—R.]
Chapter IV.—The Harvest Plenteous.
[721] [With chaps. 4–11 compare Homily VIII. 4–11. The correspondence is quite close.—R.]
[723] Luke xiii. 29; Matt. viii. 11.
[726] Matt. xi. 25. [Luke x. 21; comp. Homily XVIII. 15–17.—R.]
[728] Ædes, in the singular, probably a temple.
[729] [In Homilies VIII. 8, 24, IX. 24, the healing takes place after the discourses.—R.]
Chapter XI.—Suffering Salutary.
[730] [In Homily VIII. 12–16 there is inserted a curious account of the fall of man and angels, and of a race of giants.—R.]
Chapter XII.—Translation of Enoch.
[731] [Chap. 12 has no exact parallel in the Homilies, but Homily VIII. 17 resembles it.—R.]
[732] There seems to be here a mixing up of the translation of Enoch with the statement that in the days of Enos men began to call on the name of the Lord; Gen. iv. 26.
Chapter XIII.—Origin of Idolatry.
[734] [There is a similar chapter in Homily IX. 7, but in a discourse on the following day.—R.]
Chapter XIV.—God Both Good and Righteous.
[735] [With chaps. 14–22 compare Homily IX. 8–18. The general outline is the same, and the resemblances quite close in the larger part of both passages.—R.]
Chapter XVII.—The Gospel Gives Power Over Demons.
Chapter XXIII.—Evil Not in Substance.
[737] [Chaps. 23–26 have no exact parallel in the Homilies; comp. book iii. 16–26. The questions of the origin of evil and of free-will are more fully treated in the Recognitions.—R.]
Chapter XXIV.—Why God Permits Evil.
[738] There is considerable variety of reading in this sentence, and the precise meaning is somewhat obscure. The general sense, however, is sufficiently evident, that if God had refrained from creating those who He foresaw, would fall into evil, this would have been to subject His goodness to their evil.
Chapter XXVI.—Evil Angels Seducers.
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