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268 [Note this definition in Christian ethics.]
4 o!qen, an emendation for o!n.
5 Love, or love-feast, a name applied by the ancients to public entertainments. [But surely he is here rebuking, with St. Jude (v. 12), abuses of the Christian agapae by heretics and others.]
15 Deut. viii. 3; Matt. iv. 4.
34 [Clement seems to think this abuse was connected with the agapae not-one might trust-with the Lord's supper.]
37 Literally, "slave-manners," the conduct to be expected from slaves.
43 A bulbous root, much prized in Greece, which grew wild.
45 A play here on the words eu0dai/mwn and dai/mwn.
46 a0kro/drua, hard-shelled fruits.
51 In allusion to the agapae, or love-feasts.
52 2 Kings vi. 17-19, Septuagint: 2 Sam. vi. 17-19. A.V.
53 o!noj, perhaps the hake or cod.
56 [This remarkable chapter seems to begin with the author's recollections of Pindar (a!riston me\n u#dwr), but to lay down very justly the Scriptural ideas of temperance and abstinence.]
58 [Clement reckons only two classes as living faithfully with respect to drink, the abstinent and the totally abstinent.]
59 [This seems Clement's exposition of St. John (vi. 63), and a clear statement as to the Eucharist, which he pronounces spiritual food.]
60 [A plain reference to the use of the mixed cup in the Lord's supper.]
61 [If the temperate do well, he thinks, the abstinent do beter; but nobody is temperate who does not often and habitually abstain.]
62 [A very important principle; for, if wine be "the milk of age," the use of it in youth deprives age of any benefit from its sober use].
63 The exact derivation of acrothorakes is matter of doubt. But we have the authority of Aristotle and Erotian for believing that is was applied to those who were slightly drunk. Some regard the clause here as an interpolation.
65 Pentheus in Euripides, Bacch., 918.