73 Ion., 442.

74 [Note her remarkable accord with inspiration, clearly distinguishing between such and the oracles of God. But see, supra, p. 132 and p. 145.]

75 [Having shown what truth there is to be found in heathen poets, he ascends to the Sibyl, and thus comes to the prophets; showing them how to climb upward in this way, and cleverly inducing them to make the best use of their own prophets and poets, by following them to the sources of their noblest ideas.]

76 [How sublimely he now introduces the oracles of truth.]

77 Jer. xxiii. 23.

78 Isa. xl. 12.

79 Isa. lxiv. 1, 2.

80 Isa. lxvi. 1.

81 Jer. viii. 2. xxx. 20, iv. 6.

82 Deut. xxxii. 39.

83 Amos iv. 13.

84 Isa. xlv. 19, 20.

85 Isa. xlv. 21-23.

86 Isa. xl. 18, 19.

87 Isa. x. 10, 11.

88 Isa. x. 14.

89 Prov. viii. 22.

90 Prov. ii. 6.

91 Prov. vi. 9.

92 Prov. vi. 11.

93 Prov. vi. 23.

94 Jer. x. 12.

95 Deut. vi. 4, 13, x. 20.

96 Ps. ii. 10, 12.

97 Ps. iv. 2.

98 Rom. i. 21, 23, 25.

99 Gen. i. 1.

100 This is made up of several passages, as Isa. xiii. 10, Ezek. xxxii. 7, Joel ii. 10, 31, iii. 15.

101 Matt. v. 18.

102 Prov. iii. 11.

103 Heb. xii. 21.

104 Matt. xxv. 41, 46.

105 Eph. iv. 17-19.

106 Eph. v. 14.

107 Ps. cx. 3.

108 Ps. xcv. 8, 9.

109 Ps. xcv. 9-11

110 Ps. xcv. 7.

111 1 Tim. iv. 8.

112 1 Tim. iv. 10.

113 2 Tim. iii. 15.

114 2 Tim. iii. 16, 17. [Here note the testimony of Clement to the universal diffusion and study of the Scriptures.]

115 Matt. iv. 17.

116 Phil. iv. 5.

117 Ps. xxxiv. 8, where Clem. has read risto/j for xrhsto/j.

118 Ps. xxxiv. 11.

119 [Here seems to be a running allusion to the privileges of the Christian Church in its unity, and to the "Psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, " which were so charming a feature of Christian worship. Bunsen, Hippolytus, etc., vol. ii. p. 157.]

120 Zech. iii. 2.

121 Illiad, ii. 315.

122 Isa. i. 3.

123 Isa. liv. 17.

124 Isa. liv. 17, where Sept.reads, "ye shall be righteous."

125 Isa. lv. 1.

126 1 Cor. ii. 9.

127 Deut. xxx. 15.

128 Isa. i. 19.

129 Isa. i. 20, xxxiii. 11.

130 Minerva.

131 Gen. i. 26.

132 [Immersion was surely the form of primitive baptism, but these words, if not a reference to that sacrament, must recall Isa. lii. 15.]

133 [This fine passage will be recalled by what Clement afterward, in the Stromata, says of prayer. Book vii. vol. ii. p. 432. Edin.]

134 John iii. 19.


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