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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