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ANF Pseudo-Clementine The Recognitions of Clement
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Introductory Notice to The Recognitions of Clement.
[860] [The connection of mathematics and astrology is indicated also in Homily XIV. 3.—R.]
Chapter XII.—Astrology Baffled by Free-Will.
[861] [This argument from human freedom is the favourite one throughout.—R.]
Chapter XVII.—Gentile Cosmogony.
[862] [With this cosmogony (chaps. 17–19, 30–34) compare the discourse of Appion, Homily 3–10.—R.]
[863] [Comp. chap. 31 and Homily VI. 2.—R.]
Chapter XX.—Doings of Jupiter.
[864] [Comp. Homily V. 12–15 for a parallel to chaps. 20–23.—R.]
[865] Dionysius appears here and subsequently in the text for Dionysus the Greek god corresponding to the Latin Bacchus. Some of the other names are more or less corrupt forms.
Chapter XXIV.—Folly of Polytheism.
[866] [Comp. Homily V. 23, where these details appear in a letter written by Clement as if from a woman; also Homily VI. 21.—R.]
Chapter XXV.—Dead Men Deified.
[867] [Comp. Homily VI. 22.—R.]
Chapter XXX.—Cosmogony of Orpheus.
[868] [Comp. chaps. 17–19 and Homily VI. 3–10, 12–19.—R.]
Chapter XXXI.—Hesiod’s Cosmogony.
[869] [Comp. chap. 17 and Homily VI. 2.—R.]
[870] [Comp. Homily VI. 5, 12.—R.]
Chapter XXXII.—Allegorical Interpretation.
[871] [Comp. Homily VI. 6.—R.]
Chapter XXXIII.—Allegory of Jupiter, Etc.
[872] [Comp. Homily VI. 7.—R.]
[873] [With chaps. 33, 34, compare Homily VI. 8–10.—R.]
Chapter XXXV.—Uselessness of These Allegories.
[874] [With this treatment of the allegories compare Homily VI. 17, 18.—R.]
Chapter XL.—Further Information Sought.
[875] [Comp. Homily VI. 2, 14, 15, on the supper of the gods.—R.]
Chapter XLII.—Interpretation of Scripture.
[876] [This discourse of the Apostle (chaps. 42–51) has no exact parallel in the Homilies. It is a fitting conclusion to the discussion.—R.]
Chapter XLV.—All Ought to Repent.
[877] Luke xii. 17, 19, 20.
Chapter XLVIII.—Errors of the Philosophers.
[878] [Compare the argument of Clement, as a heathen inquirer, against the philosophers, in Homily VI. 20.—R.]
Chapter XLIX.—God’s Long-Suffering.
Chapter LI.—Christ the True Prophet.
Chapter LII.—Appion and Anubion.
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