Clement of Alexandria (Α.Ρ. 150-(?) 210) commented on 1 Peter in his Hypotyposes, but the commentary is only preserved in a Latin abridgment.! In his extant works he quotes freely from the Epistle and uses it as if it were familiar to his readers. In the Paedagogus?* (for example), which is addressed to catechumens, he SayS: éyvwkdtes οὖν τὸ ἑκάστου ἔργον, ἐν φόβῳ τὸν τῆς παροικίας ὑμῶν χρόνον ἀναστράφητε, εἰδότες ὃτιοῦ Φθαρτοῖς, ἀργυρίῳ ἢ Χρυσίῳ, ἐλυτρώθημεν ἐκ τῆς pa- ταίας ἡμῶν ἀναστροφῆς πατριπαραδότου, ἀλλὰ τιµίω αἵματι ὡς ἀμνοῦ ἀμώμου καὶ ἀσπίλου Χριστοῦ. ἀἆρκε- TOs οὖν ὁ παρεληλυθὼς χρόνος--ό Πέτρος Φησί-- τὸ βούλημα τῶν ἐθνῶν κατειργάσθαι, πεπορευµένους ἐν ἀσελγείαις, ἐπιθυμίαις, οἰνοφλυγίαις, κώµοις, πότοις. καὶ ἀθεμίτοις ἐιδωλολατρείαιςὸ Andin the Stromateis,* which were intended for more advanced Christians, he has, after quotations from the Second Epistle to the Corinthians: 816 καὶ 6 θαυμάσιος Πέτρος pyotv - ἀγαπητοί, παρακαλῶ ὡς παροίκους καὶ παρεπιδήµους ἀπέχεσθαι τῶν σαρκικῶν ἐπιθυμιῶν, aitives στρατεύον- ται κατὰ τῆς Ψψυχῆς, τὴν ἀναστροφὴν ὑμῶν καλὴν ἔχοντες ἐν τοῖς ἔθνεσιν. ὅτι οὕτως ἐστι τὸ θέλημα τοῦ θεοῦ, ἀγαθοποιοῦντας Φιμοῦν τὴν τῶν ἀφρόνων ἀνθρώπων ἐργασίαν, ὡς ἐλεύθεροι καὶ μὴ ὡς ἐπικάλυμμα ἔχοντες τῆς κακίας τὴν ἐλευθερίαν, GAN ὡς δοῦλοι θεοῦ. On one occasion® he fuses together the sumptuary laws for women laid down by St. Paul and St. Peter: προσιέναι δὲ αὐτὰς 6 παιδάγωγος κελεύει ἐν καταστολή κοσµίῳ, μετὰ αἰδοῦς καὶ σωφροσύνης κοσμεῖν €autds,© ὑποτασσομένας τοῖς ἰδίοις ἀνδράσιν, os καὶ el τινες ἄπειθοῖεν τῷ λόγω, διὰ τῆς τῶν γυναικῶν ἀν- αστροφῆς ἄνευ λόγου κερδηθήσονται, ἐποπτεύσαντες, φησί, τὴν ἓν λόγῳ ἁγνὴν ἀναστροφήν ὑμῶν' dv ἔστω οὐχ 6 ἔξωθεν ἐμπλοκῆς καὶ περιθέσεως χρυσίων ἢ ἐν- δύσεως ἱἵματίων κόσμος, ἀλλ 6 κρυπτὸς τῆς καρδίας ἄνθρωπος ἐν τῷ ἀφθάρτω τοῦ πραέος καὶ ἡσυχίου πνεύ- µατος, ὅ ἔστιν ἐνώπιον τοῦ θεοῦ πολυτελές. This fusion is characteristic: both St, Paul and St. Peter wrote Scripture, and Clement follows popular usage, which never has insisted upon a nice ‘discrimination between the authors of “texts”. Indeed in another place * he refers part of the first Epistle to Timothy ® to St. Peter:
1 Potter’s edition, pp. 1006 f. ITIL, xii. 85. 81 Peter i. 17-10, iv. 3. πι xi. 75; 5 Paedagogus, III., xi. 66. Sr Tim, ii. 9. +x Peter iii. 1-4. 8 Paedagogus, II., xii. 127. ® Tim. ii. 9 f.
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