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ANF Pseudo-Clementine The Clementine Homilies
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Introductory Notice to The Clementine Homilies.
[1400] “Incomparably wicked, more wicked than;” literally, “incomparably wicked as.”
[1401] The Greek has ὁμοίως, “in like manner.” We have translated ὅμως.
Chapter I.—Simon Undertakes to Prove that the Creator of the World is Not Blameless.
[1402] This passage is corrupt. Wieseler has proposed to amend it by bold transposition of the clauses. We make one slight alteration in the text.
Chapter II.—The Existence of the Devil Affirmed.
[1403] [Compare with this discussion respecting the origin of the evil one, Recognitions, ix. 55, 56; x. 3, etc. In Recognitions, iii. 15–23, the existence of evil is discussed.—R.]
[1408] This passage is not found in the New Testament. It resembles Eph. iv. 27.
[1409] Matt. v. 37; Jas. v. 12.
Chapter III.—Peter Refuses to Discuss Certain Questions in Regard to the Devil.
[1412] [Comp. Homily XX. 8, 9.—R.]
[1413] This passage is probably corrupt. We have adopted the readings of Cotelerius—ἤ, ἢ, instead of εἰ and μή.
[1414] Lit., “unwritten.”
[1415] The words γενητός and ἀγένητος are difficult to translate. The first means one who has somehow or other come into being; the second, one who has never come into being; but has always been. The mss. confound γενητός with γεννητός, begotten, and ἀγένητος with ἀγέννητος, unbegotten.
Chapter IV.—Suppositions in Regard to the Devil’s Origin.
[1416] We have changed εἰ into ἢ.
[1417] By “Him” is understood God, though it may mean the devil.
Chapter V.—God Not Deserving of Blame in Permitting the Existence of the Devil.
[1418] Lit., “his usefulness was most necessary of all.”
[1419] This sentence is obscure in the original. We have, with Wieseler, read ἐπεί, omitting ἀρχῇ. Instead of supplying μή, we have turned συγγνῶναι into the participle.
Chapter VI.—Peter Accuses Simon of Being Worse Than the Devil.
[1420] We have adopted the pointing of Wieseler.
Chapter VII.—Peter Suspects Simon of Not Believing Even in a God.
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