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Clement I, Pope, Hermas, active 2nd century, Ignatius, Saint, Bishop of Antioch, Papias, Saint, Bishop of Hierapolis, Polycarp, Saint, Bishop of Smyrna, Crombie, Frederick, Donaldson, James, Sir, and Roberts, Alexander
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1441. Or, “beast-like.”
1442. It is doubtful if this clause should be referred to Polycarp.
1443. Or, “received.”
1444. Literally, “a portion of.”
1445. The Latin version has, “that he was to.”
1446. The punctuation and construction are here doubtful.
1447. Or, “should prevent him from hastening to the Lord.”
1448. Or, “corrected.”
1449. Comp. Acts xxviii. 13, 14.
1450. Literally, “the ship being driven onwards from the stern.”
1451. Literally, “declaring happy.”
1452. Literally, “for the.”
1453. Literally, “boiling, and saying.”
1454. Or, “in spirit.”
1455. i.e. in his Epistle to the Romans.
1456. The Saturnalia were then celebrated.
1457. Literally, “they came together zealously.”
1458. The amphitheatre itself was sacred to several of the gods.
1459. Prov.x. 24.
1460. Or “deposited.”
1461. To the effect, viz., that the martyrdom of Ignatius had been acceptable to God.
1462. Literally, “the visions of the dreams.”
1463. Literally, “trusting in what God, etc., they look down.”
1464. Or, “life.”
1465. Some read, “that you by hearing may be edified.”
1466. Or, “purified.”
1467. Literally, “which is deceiving.”
1468. Literally, “of what substance, or of what form.”
1469. Some make this and the following clauses affirmative instead of interrogative.
1470. The text is here corrupt. Several attempts at emendation have been made, but without any marked success.
1471. Some read, “Who of you would tolerate these things?” etc.
1472. The text is here uncertain, and the sense obscure. The meaning seems to be, that by sprinkling their gods with blood, etc., they tended to prove that these were not possessed of sense.
1473. The text is here very doubtful. We have followed that adopted by most critics.
1474. Otto, resting on MS. authority, omits the negative, but the sense seems to require its insertion.
1475. Literally, “lessening.”
1476. Comp. Gal.iv. 10.
1477. This seems to refer to the practice of the Jews in fixing the beginning of the day, and consequently of the Sabbath, from the rising of the stars. They used to say, that when three stars of moderate magnitude appeared, it was night; when two, it was twilight; and when only one, that day had not yet departed. It thus came to pass (according to their night-day (νυχθήμερον) reckoning), that whosoever engaged in work on the evening of Friday, the beginning of the Sabbath, after three stars of moderate size were visible, was held to have sinned, and had to present a trespass-offering; and so on, according to the fanciful rule described.
1478. Otto thus supplies the lacuna which here occurs in the MSS., καταδ[ιαιρεῖν].
1479. The great festivals of the Jews are here referred to on the one hand, and the day of atonement on the other.
1480. Literally, “paradoxical.”