Footnotes
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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
Source notes
1. In the only known MS. of this epistle, the title is thus given at the close.
2. Literally, “is greatly blasphemed.”
3. Literally, “did not prove your all-virtuous and firm faith.”
4. Eph.v. 21; 1 Pet. v. 5.
5. Acts xx. 35.
6. Literally, “ye embraced it in your bowels.”
7. 1 Pet.ii. 17.
8. So in the MS., but many have suspected that the text is here corrupt. Perhaps the best emendation is that which substitutes συναισθήσεως, “compassion,” for συνειδήσεως, “conscience.”
9. Tit.iii. 1.
10. Prov.vii. 3.
11. Literally, “enlargement.”
12. Deut.xxxii. 15.
13. It seems necessary to refer αὐτοῦ to God, in opposition to the translation given by Abp. Wake and others.
14. Literally, “Christ;” comp. 2 Cor. i. 21, Eph. iv. 20.
15. Wisd.ii. 24.
16. Gen.iv. 3-8, The writer here, as always, follows the reading of the Septuagint, which in this passage both alters and adds to the Hebrew text. We have given the rendering approved by the best critics; but some prefer to translate, as in our English version, “unto thee shall be his desire, and thou shalt rule over him.” See, for an ancient explanation of the passage, Irenæus, Adv. Hær. iv. 18, 3.
17. Gen.xxvii. 41, etc.
18. Gen.xxxvii.
19. Ex.ii. 14.
20. Num.xii. 14, 15.
21. Num.xvi. 33.
22. 1 Kings xviii. 8, etc.
23. Literally, “those who have been athletes.”
24. Some fill up the lacuna here found in the MS. so as to read, “have come to a grievous death.”
25. Literally “good.”
26. Seven imprisonments of St Paul are not referred to in Scripture.
27. Archbishop Wake here reads “scourged.” We have followed the most recent critics in filling up the numerous lacunæ in this chapter.
28. Some think Rome, others Spain, and others even Britain, to be here referred to.
29. That is, under Tigellinus and Sabinus, in the last year of the Emperor Nero; but some think Helius and Polycletus referred to; and others, both here and in the preceding sentence, regard the words as denoting simply the witness borne by Peter and Paul to the truth of the gospel before the rulers of the earth.
30. Some suppose these to have been the names of two eminent female martyrs under Nero; others regard the clause as an interpolation.
31. Literally, “have reached to the stedfast course of faith.”
32. Gen.ii. 23.
33. Some insert “Father.”
34. Gen.vii.; 1 Pet.iii. 20; 2 Pet. ii. 5.
35. Jonah iii.
36. Ezek.xxxiii. 11.
37. Ezek.xviii. 30.
38. Comp. Isa.i. 18.
39. These words are not found in Scripture, though they are quoted again by Clem. Alex. (Pædag.i. 10) as from Ezekiel.
40. Isa.i. 16-20.