Part 39 (1/2)

[34] Euseb. _E.H._ vi, 13.

[35] _Strom._ i, 11. The quotation is roughly from Homer, _Od._ ii, 276.

[36] _Strom._ i, 43, i. Some who count themselves _euphueis, monen ka psilen ten pistin apaitousi_.

[37] _Strom._ i, 45, 6, _oi orthodoxastai_.

[38] _Strom._ vii, 55.

[39] _Paedag._ i, 26; 27. Perhaps for ”he saith,” we should read ”it saith,” viz. Scripture.

[40] _Strom._ v, 9.

[41] _Strom._ 43, 3-44, 2.

[42] _Paed._ i, 14, 2; 19. Cf. Blake's poem.

[43] _Paed._ i, 22, 3.

[44] Marcus Aurelius, xi, 3. He may have had in mind some who courted martyrdom.

[45] Euseb. _E.H._ v, 28, quotes a doc.u.ment dealing with men who study Euclid, Aristotle and Theophrastus, and all but wors.h.i.+p Galen, and have ”corrected” the Scriptures. For the view of Tertullian on this, see p.

337.

[46] _Strom._ i, 18, 2.

[47] _Strom._ vi, 80, 5.

[48] _Strom._ vi, 162, 5.

[49] _Strom._ i, 19, 2. _psile te per ton dogmatisthenton autois chromenous phrasei, ue synembainontas eis ten kata meros achri syggnoseos ekkalypsin_.

[50] _Strom._ vi, 59, 1. The exact rendering of the last clause is doubtful; the sense fairly clear.

[51] _Strom._ i, 97, 1-4.

[52] Spherical astronomy. A curious pa.s.sage on this at the beginning of Lucan's _Pharsalia_, vii.

[53] _Strom._ vi, 93, 94. The line comes from a play of Sophocles, fr.

695. It may be noted that Clement has a good many such fragments, and the presence of some very doubtful ones among them, which are also quoted in the same way by other Christian writers (_e.g._ in _Strom_, v, 111-113), raises the possibility of his borrowing other men's quotations to something near certainty. Probably they all used books of extracts. See Justin, _Coh. ad. Gent._ 18; Athenagoras, _Presb._ 5, 24.

[54] _Strom._ vi, 152, 3-154, 1. Cf. _Strom._ iv, 167, 4, ”the soul is not sent from heaven hither for the worse, for G.o.d energizes all things for the better.”--If the English in some of these pa.s.sages is involved and obscure, it perhaps gives the better impression of the Greek.

[55] Cf. _Iliad_, 3, 277.

[56] We may note his fondness for the old idea of Plato that man is an _phytn ouranion_ and has an _emphytos archaia prs ouranon koinonia_.

Cf. _Protr._ 25, 3; 100, 3.

[57] _Strom._ vi, 156, 3-157, 5.