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As "after the flesh" in our case is being in the midst of sins, and being out of them is to be "not after the flesh;" so also after the flesh, in the case of Christ, was His subjection to natural affections, and not to be subject to them was not to be "after the flesh." "But," he says, "as He was released, so also are we." Let there be no longer, he says, subjection to the influences of the flesh. Thus Clement, the fourth book of the Hypotyposes.

14. From the Same, p. 391.

On 2 Cor. vi. 11. "Our heart is enlarged."

For as heat is wont to expand, so also love. For love is a thing of warmth. As if he would say, I love you not only with mouth, but with heart, and have you all within. Wherefore he says: "ye are not straitened in us, since desire itself expands the soul." "Our heart is enlarged" to teach you all things; "but ye are straitened in your own bowels," that is, in love to God, in which you ought to love me.

Thus Clement, in the fourth book of the Hypotyposes.

15. From Vol. III. V. 286.

Heb. i. 1. "At sundry times and divers manners."

Since the Lord, being the Apostle of the Almighty, was sent to the Hebrews, it was out of modesty that Paul did not subscribe himself apostle of the Hebrews, from reverence for the Lord, and because he was the herald and apostle of the Gentiles, and wrote the Epistle to the Hebrews in addition [to his proper work].

16. From the Same.

The same work contains a passage from The Instructor, book i. chap. vi. The passage is that beginning, "For the blood is found to be," down to "potent charms of affection." Portions, however, are omitted. There are a good many various readings; but although the passage in question, as found in Cramer's work, is printed in full in Migne's edition, on the alleged ground of the considerable variation from the text of Clement, the variation is not such as to make a translation of the passage as found in Cramer of any special interest or value.

We have noted the following readings:--

ginetai, where, the verb being omitted, we have inserted is: There is an obstruction, etc.

suringas, tubes, instead of serangas (hollows), hollows of the breasts.

geitniazouson, for geitniouson, neighbouring (arteries).

epilepsei, for emperilepsei, interruption (such as this).

apoklerosis occurs as in the text, for which the emendation apoleresis, as specified in the note, has been adopted.

hetis esti, omitted here, which is "sweet through grace," is supplied.

P. 142.

gala, milk, instead of manna, manna, (that food) manna.

P. 149.

chre de katanoesai ten phusin (but it is necessary to consider nature), for ou katanenoekotes, t. ph., through want of consideration of nature.

katakleiomeno, agreeing with food, for katakleiomeno, agreeing with heat (enclosed within).

ginetai for gar (which is untranslated), (the blood) is (a preparation) for milk.

P. 144.

toinun ton logon is supplied, and eikotos omitted in the clause, Paul using appropriate figurative language.

P. 145.

ple n is supplied before alla to en aute, and the blood in it, etc., is omitted.

P. 146.

"For Diogenes Apolloniates will have it" is omitted.

pante, rendered "in all respects," is connected with the preceding sentence.

P. 147.

hoti toinun, for Hos d'. And that (milk is produced).

tenikauta for tenikade in the clause, "and the grass and meadows are juicy and moist," not translated.

proeiremeno, above mentioned (milk), omitted.

truphes for trophes, (sweet) nutriment.

to omitted before glukei, sweet (wine), and kathaper, "as, when suffering."

to liparon for to liparo, and aridelos for aridelou, in the sentence: "Further, many use the fat of milk, called butter, for the lamp, plainly," etc.

N. B.

[Le Nourry decides that the Adumbrations were not translated from the Hypotyposes, but Kaye (p. 473) thinks on insufficient grounds. See, also (p. 5), Kaye's learned note.]

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Notes

  1. 3835. This extract, down to "are we," has already been given among the extracts from the Hypotyposes, p. 578.
  2. 3836. This extract, almost verbatim, has been already given from Eusebius, among the extracts from the Hypotyposes, p. 579.
  3. 3837. See p. 219, and the argument following, supra.