¹ In later Greek parqe/noj was used of both sexes (comp. Rev. xiv. 4). The Syriac original employs both a masculine an a feminine form. This will not always be indicated in the following translation.

² Matt. xix. 12.

³ Or "to the holy virgins who are in God: peace." So Zingerle, and probably Wetstein.

⁴ Zing., not so well, takes this to mean, "by the confession of the mouth" (durch das mündliche Bekenntniss), comparing Matt. vii. 21

⁵ Lit. "by word or by name."

⁶ The Greek word sxh=ma, here adopted in the Syriac, c, is some. times thus used.-Beelen.

⁷ Lit. "much time."

⁸ Prov. iii. 3, 4 (LXX )

⁹ Lit. "fixed." Prov. iv. 18.

¹⁰ Matt. v. 14.

¹¹ Isa. ix. 2: Matt. iv. 16.

¹² Matt. v. 16; 1 Pet. ii. 12

¹³ Probably referring to 1 Cor. xiv. 40.-Beelen

¹⁴ Eph. v. 6.

¹⁵ Matt. xxv. 2.

¹⁶ 2 Tim. iii 5

¹⁷ Lit. "let every one be trying."

¹⁸ Gal. vi. 3, 4

¹⁹ Matt. xii. 33. [More probably Luke vi. 44.-R.]

²⁰ Or "consider". There is no play on words in the passage quoted (2 Tim ii. 7), nor perhaps was this intended in the Syriac.

²¹ 2 Tim. ii. 7.

²² Lit. "true in fear of God." The reading is probably faulty.-Beelen

²³ The ellipsis is usually to be thus filled up in these epistles. [In similar cases which follow, italics will not be used.-R.]

²⁴ Gen. i. 28.

²⁵ Or "the sensual pleasures."

²⁶ Or "from all intercourse with."

²⁷ Either something is here omitted by the transcriber, or Clement has varied the form of expression.-Beelen.

²⁸ "Sanctification."-Beelen. [So A. V. The R. V. correctly renders a9giasmoj, "sanctification," in every instance.-R].]

²⁹ 2 Thess. ii. 13.

³⁰ Col. i. 5.

³¹ Isa. lvi. 4, 5.

³² Heb. xiii. 4.

³³ 1 Cor. vii. 34.

³⁴ Lit. "descend to".

³⁵ 2 Tim. ii 5

³⁶ The words, "in the might of the Holy Spirit," appear to obscure the sense.-Beelen.

³⁷ Gal. iv. 26.

³⁸ Rev. xii. 7.

³⁹ 1 Pet. v. 8.

⁴⁰ 2 Cor. xi. 3.

⁴¹ Lit. "the Eucharist of the Godhead." This is an evidence of later date than the sub-apostolic age.-R].]

⁴² Matt. xvi. 24

⁴³ Lit. "crown of victory."

⁴⁴ Phil. iii. 14

⁴⁵ i.e. continency. [The use of the terms "sanctity," "holy," etc., in the limited sense of "continency," "chaste," etc., is strong evidence of the later origin.-R]

⁴⁶ The last two sentences properly belong to chap. vi.

⁴⁷ Or "the Holy Virgin."

⁴⁸ Matt. xi. 11.

⁴⁹ Lit. "lover," or "friend."

⁵⁰ John xxi. 20.

⁵¹ i.e., a virgin.

⁵² Phil. iv. 3.

⁵³ i.e., virginity.

⁵⁴ i.e., celibate. or chaste.

⁵⁵ Heb. xiii. 7.

⁵⁶ 1 Cor. xi. 1.

⁵⁷ Rom. xiii 14.

⁵⁸ Gal. v. 24.

⁵⁹ 1 Cor vii. 32.

⁶⁰ 1 Pet i. 15 (cf. Lev. xi. 44).

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