INDEX OF TEXTS (2)

MURRAY AND GIBB, PRINTERS, EDINBURGH

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.

41.  Some read ματαιολογίαν, vain talk.

42.  Gen. v. 24; Heb. xi. 5. Literally, “and his death was not found.”

43.  Isa. xli. 8; 2 Chron. xx. 7; Judith viii. 19; James ii. 23.

44.  Gen. xii. 1-3.

45.  Gen. xiii. 14-16.

46.  Gen. xv. 5, 6; Rom. iv. 3.

47.  Gen. xxi. 22; Heb. xi. 17.

48.  Gen. xix.; comp. 2 Pet. ii. 6-9.

49.  So Joseph. Antiq. i. 11, 4; Irenæus, Adv. Hær. iv. 31.

50.  Literally, “become a judgment and sign.”

51.  Josh. ii.; Heb. xi. 31.

52.  Others of the fathers adopt the same allegorical interpretation, e.g. Justin Mar. Dial. c. Tryph. n. 111; Irenæus, Adv. Hær. iv. 20.

53.  Jer. ix. 28, 24; 1 Cor. i. 31; 2 Cor. x. 17.

54.  Comp. Matt. vi. 12-15, vii. 2; Luke vi. 36-38.

55.  Isa. lxvi. 2.

56.  Prov. ii. 21, 22.

57.  Ps. xxxvii. 35-37. “Remnant” probably refers either to the memory or posterity of the righteous.

58.  Isa. xxix. 13; Matt. xv. 8; Mark vii. 6.

59.  Ps. lxii. 4.

60.  Ps. lxxviii. 36, 37.

61.  Ps. xxxi. 18.

62.  These words within brackets are not found in the MS., but have been inserted from the Septuagint by most editors.

63.  Ps. xii. 3-5.

64.  The Latin of Cotelerius, adopted by Hefele and Dressel, translates this clause as follows: “I will set free the wicked on account of His sepulchre, and the rich on account of His death.”

65.  The reading of the MS. is τῆς πληγῆς, “purify, or free Him, from stripes.” We have adopted the emendation of Junius.

66.  Wotton reads, “If He make.”

67.  Or, “fill Him with understanding,” if πλῆσαι should be read instead of πλάσαι, as Grabe suggests.

68.  Isa. liii. The reader will observe how often the text of the Septuagint, here quoted, differs from the Hebrew as represented by our authorized English version.

69.  Ps. xxii. 6-8.

70.  Heb. xi. 37.

71.  Gen. xviii. 27.

72.  Job i. 1.

73.  Job xiv. 4, 5.

74.  Num. xii. 7; Heb. iii. 2.

75.  Some fill up the lacuna which here occurs in the MS. by “Israel.”

76.  Ex. iii. 11, iv. 10.

77.  This is not found in Scripture.

78.  Or, as some render, “to whom.”

79.  Ps. lxxxix. 21.

80.  Or, “when Thou judgest.”

81.  Literally, “in my inwards.”

82.  Literally, “bloods.”

83.  Ps., li. 1-17.

84.  Literally, “Becoming partakers of many great and glorious deeds, let us return to the aim of peace delivered to us from the beginning.” Comp. Heb. xii. 1.

85.  Or, “collections.”

86.  Job xxxviii. 11.

87.  Or, “stations.”

88.  Prov. xx. 27.

89.  Comp. Heb. xiii. 17; 1 Thess. v. 12, 13.

90.  Or, “the presbyters.”

91.  Some read, “by their silence.”

92.  Comp. 1 Tim. v. 21.

93.  Some translate, “who turn to Him.”

94.  Ps. xxxiv. 11-17.

95.  Ps. xxxii. 10.

96.  Or, as some render, “neither let us have any doubt of.”

97.  Some regard these words as taken from an apocryphal book, others as derived from a fusion of James i. 8 and 2 Pet. iii. 3, 4.

98.  Hab. ii. 3; Heb. x. 37.

99.  Mal. iii. 1.

100.  Comp. 1 Cor. xv. 20; Col. i. 18.

101.  Comp. Luke viii. 5.

102.  This fable respecting the phœnix is mentioned by Herodotus (ii. 73), and by Pliny (Nat. Hist. x. 2), and is used as above by Tertullian (De Resurr. § 13), and by others of the fathers.

103.  Literally, “the mightiness of His promise.”

104.  Ps. xxviii. 7, or from some apocryphal book.

105.  Comp. Ps. iii. 6.

106.  Job xix. 25, 26.

107.  Comp. Tit. i. 2; Heb. vi. 18.

108.  Or “majesty.”

109.  Wisd. xii. 12, xi. 22.

110.  Comp. Matt. xxiv. 35.

111.  Literally, “If the heavens,” etc.

112.  Ps. xix. 1-3.

113.  Literally, “abominable lusts of evil deeds.”

114.  Ps. cxxxix. 7-10.

115.  Literally, “has made us to Himself a part of election.”

116.  Literally, “sowed abroad.”

117.  Deut. xxxii. 8, 9.

118.  Formed apparently from Num. xviii. 27 and 2 Chron. xxxi. 14. Literally, the closing words are, “the holy of holies.”

119.  Some translate, “youthful lusts.”

120.  Prov. iii. 34; James iv. 6; 1 Pet. v. 5.

121.  Job xi. 2, 3. The translation is doubtful.

122.  Literally, “what are the ways of His blessing.”

123.  Literally, “unroll.”

124.  Comp. James ii. 21.

125.  Some translate, “knowing what was to come.”

126.  Gen. xxii.

127.  So Jacobson: Wotton reads, “fleeing from his brother.”

128.  The meaning is here very doubtful. Some translate, “the gifts which were given to Jacob by Him,” i.e. God.

129.  MS. αὐτῶν, referring to the gifts: we have followed the emendation αὐτοῦ, adopted by most editors. Some refer the word to God, and not Jacob.

130.  Comp. Rom. ix. 5.

131.  Gen. xxii. 17, xxviii. 4.

132.  Or, “commandment.”

133.  Or, “in addition to all.”

134.  Gen. i. 26, 27.

135.  Gen. i. 28.

136.  Or, “let us consider.”

137.  Or, “labourer.”

138.  Isa. xl. 10, lxii. 11; Rev. xxii. 12.

139.  The text here seems to be corrupt. Some translate, “He warns us with all His heart to this end, that,” etc.

140.  Dan. vii. 10.

141.  Isa. vi. 3.

142.  1 Cor. ii. 9.

143.  Some translate, “in liberty.”

144.  Or, “of the ages.”

145.  The reading is doubtful: some have ἀφιλοξενίαν, “want of a hospitable spirit.”

146.  Rom. i. 32.

147.  Literally, “didst run with.”

148.  Literally, “didst weave.”

149.  Or, “layest a snare for.”

150.  Ps. l. 16-23. The reader will observe how the Septuagint followed by Clement differs from the Hebrew.

151.  Literally, “that which saves us.”

152.  Or, “rejoices to behold.”

153.  Or, “knowledge of immortality.”

154.  Heb. i. 3, 4.

155.  Ps. civ. 4; Heb. i. 7.

156.  Some render, “to the Son.”

157.  Ps. ii. 7, 8; Heb. i. 5.

158.  Ps. cx. 1; Heb. i. 13.

159.  Some read, “who oppose their own will to that of God.”

160.  Literally, “in these there is use.”

161.  1 Cor. xii. 12, etc.

162.  Literally, “all breathe together.”

163.  Literally, “use one subjection.”

164.  Literally, “according as he has been placed in his charism.”

165.  Comp. Prov. xxvii. 2.

166.  The MS. is here slightly torn, and we are left to conjecture.

167.  Comp. Ps. cxxxix. 15.

168.  Literally, “and silly and uninstructed.”

169.  Literally, “a breath.”

170.  Or, “has perceived.”

171.  Some render, “they perished at the gates.”

172.  Job iv. 16-18, xv. 15, iv. 19-21, v. 1-5.

173.  Some join κατὰ καιροὺς τεταγμένους, “at stated times,” to the next sentence.

174.  Literally, “to His will.”

175.  Or, “consider.”

176.  Or, “by the command of.”

177.  Or, “by the command of.”

178.  Literally, “both things were done.”

179.  Or, “confirmed by.”

180.  Or, “having tested them in spirit.”

181.  Or, “overseers.”

182.  Or, “servants.”

183.  Isa. lx. 17, Sept.; but the text is here altered by Clement. The LXX. have, “I will give thy rulers in peace, and thy overseers in righteousness.”

184.  Num. xii. 10; Heb. iii. 5.

185.  Literally, “every tribe being written according to its name.”

186.  See Num. xvii.

187.  Literally, “on account of the title of the oversight.” Some understand this to mean, “in regard to the dignity of the episcopate;” and others simply, “on account of the oversight.”

188.  The meaning of this passage is much controverted. Some render, “left a list of other approved persons;” while others translate the unusual word ἐπινομὴ, which causes the difficulty, by “testamentary direction,” and many others deem the text corrupt. We have given what seems the simplest version of the text as it stands.

189.  i.e. the apostles.

190.  Or, “oversight.”

191.  Literally, “presented the offerings.”

192.  Or, “Ye perceive.”

193.  Or, “For.”

194.  Dan. vi. 16.

195.  Dan. iii. 20.

196.  Literally, “worshipped.”

197.  Literally, “serve.”

198.  Or, “lifted up.”

199.  Literally, “to such examples it is right that we should cleave.”

200.  Not found in Scripture.

201.  Literally, “be.”

202.  Or, “thou wilt overthrow.”

203.  Ps. xviii. 25, 26.

204.  Or, “war.” Comp. James iv. 1.

205.  Comp. Eph. iv. 4-6.

206.  Rom. xii. 5.

207.  This clause is wanting in the text.

208.  This clause is wanting in the text.

209.  Comp. Matt. xviii. 6, xxvi. 24; Mark ix. 42; Luke xvii. 2.

210.  Literally, “in the beginning of the gospel.”

211.  Or, “spiritually.”

212.  1 Cor. iii. 13, etc.

213.  Or, “inclinations for one above another.”

214.  Literally, “of conduct in Christ.”

215.  Or, “aliens from us,” i.e. the Gentiles.

216.  Literally, “remove.”

217.  Literally, “becoming merciful.”

218.  Ps. cxviii. 19, 20.

219.  James v. 20; 1 Pet. iv. 8.

220.  Comp. 1 Cor. xiii. 4, etc.

221.  Literally, “visitation.”

222.  Or, “good.”

223.  Isa. xxvi. 20.

224.  Ps. xxxii. 1, 2.

225.  Or, “look to.”

226.  Or, “righteously.”

227.  Num. xvi.

228.  Ex. xiv.

229.  Ps. lxix. 31, 32.

230.  Or, “sacrifice.”

231.  Ps. l. 14, 15.

232.  Ps. li. 17.

233.  Ex. xxxii. 7, etc.; Deut. ix. 12, etc.

234.  Ex. xxxii. 9, etc.

235.  Ex. xxxii. 32.

236.  Or, “mighty.”

237.  Literally, “be wiped out.”

238.  Literally, “the multitude.”

239.  Or, “receive.”

240.  Ps. xxiv. 1; 1 Cor. x. 26, 28.

241.  Literally, “and having received their prices, fed others.”

242.  Judith viii. 30.

243.  Esther vii. viii.

244.  Literally, “there shall be to them a fruitful and perfect remembrance, with compassions both towards God and the saints.”

245.  Or, “they unite.”

246.  Ps. cxviii. 18.

247.  Prov. iii. 12: Heb. xii. 6.

248.  Ps. cxli. 5.

249.  Literally, “hand.”

250.  Literally, “err” or “sin.”

251.  Job v. 17-26.

252.  Literally, “to be found small and esteemed.”

253.  Literally, “His hope.”

254.  Prov. i. 23-31.

255.  Junius (Pat. Young), who examined the MS. before it was bound into its present form, stated that a whole leaf was here lost. The next letters that occur are ιπον, which have been supposed to indicate εἶπον or ἔλιπον. Doubtless some passages quoted by the ancients from the Epistle of Clement, and not now found in it, occurred in the portion which has thus been lost.

256.  Comp. Tit. ii. 14.

257.  Literally, “an eternal throne.”

258.  Literally, “from the ages to the ages of ages.”

259.  No title, not even a letter, is preserved in the MS.

260.  Literally, “holy things.”