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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
281. The first part of this sentence is not found in Scripture; for the second, comp. Matt.vii. 23, Luke xiii. 27.
282. Matt.x. 16.
283. No such conversation is recorded in Scripture.
284. Or, “Let not the lambs fear.”
285. Matt.x. 28; Luke xii. 4, 5.
286. Or, “know.”
287. The text and translation are here doubtful.
288. Matt.vi. 24; Luke xvi. 13.
289. Matt.xvi. 26.
290. Literally, “speaks of.”
291. Or, “enjoy.”
292. The MS. has, “we reckon.”
293. Ezek.xiv. 14, 20.
294. Literally, “with what confidence shall we.”
295. Wake translates “kingdom,” as if the reading had been βασιλείαν; but the MS. has βασίλειον, “palace.”
296. Literally, “that many set sail for corruptible contests,” referring probably to the concourse at the Isthmian games.
297. Or, “Let us place before us.”
298. Or, “set sail.”
299. Literally, “know.”
300. Literally, “if he be found corrupting.”
301. Baptism is probably meant.
302. Isa.lxvi. 24.
303. Comp. Luke xvi. 10-12.
304. MS. has “we,” which is corrected by all editors as above.
305. Some have thought this a quotation from an unknown apocryphal book, but it seems rather an explanation of the preceding words.
306. Literally, “looked up.”
307. The MS. has εἷς, “one,” which Wake follows, but it seems clearly a mistake for ὡς.
308. Matt.xii. 50.
309. Literally, “rather.”
310. Literally, “malice, as it were, the precursor of our sins.” Some deem the text corrupt.
311. Literally, according to the MS., “it is not possible that a man should find it who are”—the passage being evidently corrupt.
312. The same words occur in Clement’s first epistle, chap. xxiii.
313. 1 Cor.ii. 9.
314. These words are quoted (Clem. Alex. Strom.iii. 9, 13) from the Gospel according to the Egyptians, no longer extant.
315. Thus ends the MS., but what followed will be found in Clem. Alex. as just cited.
316. The title of this epistle in most of the MSS. is, “The Epistle of St Polycarp, Bishop of Smyrna, and holy martyr, to the Philippians.”
317. Or, “Polycarp, and those who with him are presbyters.”
318. Literally, “ye have received the patterns of true love.”
319. Phil.i. 5.
320. Acts ii. 24. Literally, “having loosed the pains of Hades.”