XVIII.
The Commentaria of Le Nourry have been my guide to the brief analysis of these Elucidations, though I have not always allowed the learned Benedictine to dictate an opinion, or to control my sense of our author's argument.
[2675] See vol. i. p. 332, note 4, this series.
[2676] See the touching story of St. Peter's words to his wife as she was led to martyrdom (Stromata, book vii. p. 451, Edinburgh Edition).
[2677] Works, ii. 252. See, also, the apocryphal collection in this series, hereafter.
[2678] 2 Cor. vi. 17. Compare Ex. xxix. 45, and Lev. xxvi. 12.
[2679] In using the phrase ecclesia nostra (he kata ten Ekklesian kath' hemas), which I take to refer to the church militant, we encounter a formula which we use differently in our day.
[2440] After much consideration, the Editors have deemed it best to give the whole of this book in Latin. [In the former Book, Clement has shown, not without a decided leaning to chaste celibacy, that marriage is a holy estate, and consistent with the perfect man in Christ. He now enters upon the refutation of the false-Gnostics and their licentious tenets. Professing a stricter rule to begin with, and despising the ordinances of the Creator, their result was the grossest immorality in practice. The melancholy consequences of an enforced celibacy are, here, all foreseen and foreshown; and this Book, though necessarily offensive to our Christian tastes, is most useful as a commentary upon the history of monasticism, and the celibacy of priests, in the Western churches. The resolution of the Edinburgh editors to give this Book to scholars only, in the Latin, is probably wise. I subjoin a succint analysis, in the elucidations.]
[2441] Matt. xix. 11, 12.
[2442] Matt. xix. 11, 12.
[2443] 2 Cor. ix. 13, 15.
[2444] Gal. vi. 2.
[2445] 2 Cor. x. 12.
[2446] 1 Cor. vii. 9.
[2447] Vid. Irenæum, lib. i. c. 2, p. 51.
[2448] Ex. xx. 13.
[2449] Matt. v. 28.
[2450] Ex. xx. 17.
[2451] Deut. xxii. 22.
[2452] [[59]Elucidation II.]
[2453] Jude 8-17.
[2454] [[60]Elucidation III.]
[2455] Rom. vii. 24.
[2456] Matt. viii. 22; Luke ix. 60.
[2457] Matt. vi. 24; Luke xvi. 13.
[2458] [Elucidation IV.]
[2459] Matt. v. 24; Luke vi. 30.
[2460] Eph. iv. 20-24.
[2461] Eph. v. 1-4.
[2462] Eph. v. 5-11.
[2463] Rom. vi. 16.
[2464] Num. xxv. 8; 1 John i. 6, 7.
[2465] Matt. v. 20.
[2466] Dan. i. 1.
[2467] Ps. cxviii. 9.
[2468] Jer. x. 2.
[2469] Luke xi. 40.
[2470] Matt. v. 25.; Luke xii. 58.
[2471] Matt. v. 16.
[2472] Gen. i. 28, ix. 1.
[2473] Gen. i. 29; ix. 2, 3.
[2474] Ex. xxi. 24.
[2475] Ex. xxii. 1.
[2476] Deut. vi. 5.
[2477] Deut. xxvii. 15.
[2478] Mal. iii. 15.
[2479] Jer. xii. 1.
[2480] Rom. iii. 8.
[2481] Mal. ii. 17.
[2482] [[61]Elucidation V.]
[2483] 1 Cor. vi. 13, x. 23.
[2484] Gal. v. 13.
[2485] John iii. 3.
[2486] Col. ii. 11.
[2487] Col. iii. 4, 10.
[2488] 1 John. ii. 4.
[2489] [[62]Elucidation VI.]
[2490] 1 John ii. 18, 19.
[2491] Matt. v. 17.
[2492] Matt. xix. 6; Mark. x. 9.
[2493] 1 Cor. vii. 14.
[2494] Matt. xix. 3; Mark x. 2.
[2495] Matt. xxii. 30; Mark xii. 23; Luke xx. 35.
[2496] 1 Cor. vi. 13.
[2497] Rom. xiv. 17.
[2498] Jas. iv. 6; 1 Pet. v. 5.
[2499] Matt. xix. 6; Mark x. 9.
[2500] Matt. xxiv. 37; Luke xvii. 28.
[2501] Luke xviii. 8.
[2502] Matt. xxiv. 19; Mark xiii. 17; Luke xxi. 23.
[2503] Acts i. 7.
[2504] Matt. xix. 11, 12.
[2505] Matt. xix. 10, 11.
[2506] 1 Tim. iv. 1, 3.
[2507] Col. ii. 18, 23.
[2508] 1 Cor. vii. 27.
[2509] 1 Cor. vii. 2, 5.
[2510] Rom. xiv. 3.
[2511] Matt. xi. 18, 19.
[2512] [[63]Elucidation VII.]
[2513] 1 Cor. ix. 5.
[2514] [De disconissa primitiva, confer Bunsenium, apud Hippol., vol. iii. p. 41.]
[2515] Rom. xiv. 17.
[2516] Matt. v. 42.
[2517] Matt. xxv. 35, 36.
[2518] Matt. xxv. 40.
[2519] Prov. xix. 17.
[2520] Prov. iii. 27.
[2521] Prov. iii. 3.
[2522] Prov. x. 4.
[2523] Prov. xiii. 8.
[2524] Matt. xix. 16; Mark x. 17; Luke xviii. 18.
[2525] Prov. xiii. 11.
[2526] Prov. xi. 23.
[2527] Ps. cxi. 9.
[2528] Matt. vi. 19.
[2529] Hagg. i. 6.
[2530] Luke xii. 16-20.
[2531] [[64]Elucidation VIII.]
[2532] Matt. vii. 7.
[2533] Rom. xiii. 12, 13, 14.
[2534] Matt. xix. 12.
[2535] Heb. ix. 14.
[2536] [[65]Elucidation IX.]
[2537] Rom. vi. 14.
[2538] Rom. vi. 15.
[2539] 2 Cor. v. 10.
[2540] 2 Cor. v. 16, 17.
[2541] 2 Cor. vi. 14, 15, 16.
[2542] 2 Cor. vii. 1.
[2543] [[66]Elucidation X.]
[2544] Eph. ii. 5.
[2545] Rom. v. 12-14.
[2546] Gen. iii. 20.
[2547] Phil. i. 20-24.
[2548] Ps. xlviii. 21.
[2549] [[67]Elucidation XI.]
[2550] Matt. xviii. 20.
[2551] 1 Cor. vii. 7.
[2552] [[68]Elucidation XII.]
[2553] Ex. xx. 17.
[2554] Matt. v. 27, 28.
[2555] Deut. xxi. 11, 12, 13.
[2556] Ex. xix. 20.
[2557] 2 Cor. vi. 16, 17, 18.
[2558] 2 Cor. vii. 1.
[2559] 2 Cor. xi. 2.
[2560] 2 Cor. xi. 3.
[2561] 1 Pet. ii. 11, 12, 15, 16.
[2562] Rom. vi. 2, 6.
[2563] Rom. vi. 13.
[2564] Rom. vii. 7.
[2565] Rom. vii. 18.
[2566] Rom. vii. 17.
[2567] Rom. vii. 20, 23, 24.
[2568] Rom. viii. 2, 3, 4.
[2569] Rom. viii. 10, 11.
[2570] Rom. viii. 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 12, 13, 14, 15.
[2571] 1 Cor. vii. 5.
[2572] 1 Cor. vii. 24.
[2573] Rom. viii. 2.
[2574] 1 Cor. vii. 39, 40.
[2575] Rom. vii. 4.
[2576] 2 Cor. xi. 3.
[2577] [[69]Elucidation XIII.]
[2578] 1 Cor. vii. 5.
[2579] Matt. vi. 24.
[2580] Gen. iv. 25.
[2581] 1 Cor. vii. 5.
[2582] Matt. xix. 6.
[2583] Rom. vii. 4.
[2584] Rom. vii. 12.
[2585] John iii. 6.
[2586] 1 Cor. vii. 14.
[2587] Rom. vii. 4.
[2588] 1 Tim. iv. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5.
[2589] Rom. xiv. 21.
[2590] 1 Cor. vii. 8.
[2591] Rom. xiv. 19.
[2592] Sophon. iii. 19.
[2593] Matt. vi. 19.
[2594] Isa. l. 9.
[2595] John vi. 27.
[2596] Luke xx. 35.
[2597] Luke xx. 34.
[2598] Matt. xxiii. 9.
[2599] Matt. xxiii. 9.
[2600] 1 Cor. vii. 32, 33, 34.
[2601] 1 Cor. vi. 18.
[2602] Isa. l. 1.
[2603] 1 Tim. v. 14, 15.
[2604] 1 Tim. iii. 15.
[2605] Luke xix. 20.
[2606] Ps. vi. 8.
[2607] [Elucidation XIV.]
[2608] Isa. lvi. 3.
[2609] 2 Cor. xi. 3.
[2610] Matt. xviii. 11, 12.
[2611] Matt. v. 28.
[2612] Eph. iv. 24.
[2613] Gen. iii. 21.
[2614] Phil. iii. 20.
[2615] 1 Cor. vii. 1, 2.
[2616] 1 Cor. vii. 5.
[2617] 1 Cor. vii. 9.
[2618] 1 Cor. vii. 3, 5.
[2619] Luke xiv. 26.
[2620] Ex. xx. 12.
[2621] 1 Cor. vii. 33.
[2622] 1 Cor. vii. 10, 11.
[2623] Isa. lvi. 3, 4, 5.
[2624] Isa. lxv. 23.
[2625] John xiii. 33.
[2626] Gal. iv. 19.
[2627] 1 Cor. iv. 15.
[2628] Deut. xxiii. 1.
[2629] Matt. xix. 12.
[2630] Jer. xx. 14.
[2631] Jer. xx. 18.
[2632] 4 Esdr. v. 35.
[2633] Job xiv. 4, 5.
[2634] Ps. l. 7.
[2635] Mic. vi. 7.
[2636] Gen. i. 28.
[2637] 1 Cor. xv. 34. Clement reads here eknipsate, "wash," instead of eknepsate, "awake."
[2638] Eph. vi. 12.
[2639] 1 Cor. ix. 27, 25.
[2640] Ps. xlviii. 13, 21.
[2641] Jer. v. 8.
[2642] Isa. xl. 6, 7, 8.
[2643] [[70]Elucidation XV.]
[2644] Prov. xiii. 12.
[2645] Gen. iii. 5.
[2646] Gen. iv. 1.
[2647] 1 Cor. xv. 50.
[2648] Gal. iii. 3.
[2649] Jer. v. 8.
[2650] Prov. i. 14.
[2651] Prov. i. 15, 16, 17.
[2652] Apoc. ix. 10.
[2653] Eph. ii. 3.
[2654] 1 Cor. v. 7.
[2655] Gal. ii. 19, 20.
[2656] Matt. x. 5.
[2657] Prov. i. 18, 19.
[2658] Matt. xxvi. 24.
[2659] Matt. xviii. 6 seqq.
[2660] Rom. ii. 24.
[2661] 1 Cor. v. 11.
[2662] 1 Cor. vi. 13.
[2663] 1 Cor. vi. 16.
[2664] 1 Cor. vii. 5.
[2665] 1 Cor. vii. 3.
[2666] 1 Cor. vii. 10, 11, 12.
[2667] 1 Cor. vii. 14.
[2668] 1 Tim. iii. 2, 4; Tit. i. 6.
[2669] [[71]Elucidation XVI.]
[2670] Tit. i. 15.
[2671] 1 Cor. vi. 9, 10, 11.
[2672] Phil. iv. 8, 9.
[2673] 1 Pet. i. 21, 22.
[2674] 1 Pet. i. 14, 15, 16.
The Stromata, or Miscellanies.