He makes use also in these works of testimonies from the disputed Scriptures zetcasino sito web , the so-called Wisdom of Solomon, and of Jesus, the son of Sirach, and the Epistle to the Hebrews, and those of Barnabas, and Clement and Jude. He mentions also Tatian’s
He refers onesto the Jewish authors Philo, Aristobulus, Josephus, Demetrius, and Eupolemus, as showing, all of them, sopra their works, that Moses and the Jewish race existed before the earliest origin of the Greeks. se books abound also mediante much other learning.
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Passover he acknowledges that he had been urged by his friends sicuro commit esatto writing, for posterity, the traditions which he had heard from the ancient presbyters; and in the same work he mentions Melito and Iren’us, and indivis others, and gives extracts from their writings.
Esatto sum up briefly, he has given mediante the Hypotyposes abridged accounts of all canonical Scripture, not omitting the disputed books, — I refer to Jude and the other Catholic epistles, and Barnabas and the so-called Apocalypse of Peter. He says that the Epistle to the Hebrews is the rete informatica of Paul, and that it was written sicuro the Hebrews durante the Hebrew language; but that Luke translated it carefully and published it for the Greeks, and hence the same style of expression is found in this epistle and sopra the Acts. But he says that the words, Paul the Apostle, were probably not prefixed, because, per sending it sicuro the Hebrews, who were prejudiced and suspicious of him, he wisely did not wish to repel them at the very beginning by giving his name.
Farther on he says: “But now, as the blessed presbyter said, since the Lord being the apostle of the Almighty, was sent puro the Hebrews, Paul, as sent sicuro the Gentiles, on account of his modesty did not subscribe himself an apostle of the Hebrews, through respect for the Lord, and because being verso herald and apostle of the Gentiles he wrote puro the Hebrews out of his superabundance.”
Again, con the same books, Clement gives the tradition of the earliest presbyters, as sicuro the order of the Gospels, per the following manner: Gospels containing the genealogies, he says, were written first.
As Peter had preached the Word publicly at Rome, and declared the Gospel by the Spirit, many who were present requested that Mark, who had followed him for verso long time and remembered his sayings, should write them out. And having composed the Gospel he gave it esatto those who had requested it. When
Peter learned of this, he neither directly forbade nor encouraged it. But, last of all, John, perceiving that the external facts had been made plain con the Gospel, being urged by his friends, and inspired by the Spirit, composed a spiritual Gospel. This is the account of Clement.
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Again the above-mentioned Alexander, mediante a excretion letter puro Origen, refers preciso Clement, and at the same time preciso Pant’nus, as being among his familiar acquaintances. He writes as follows:
“For this, as thou knowest, was the will of God, that the ancestral friendship existing between us should remain unshaken; nay, rather should be warmer and stronger. For we know well those blessed fathers who have trodden the way before us, with whom we shall soon be; Pant’nus, the truly blessed man and originale, and the holy Clement, my master and benefactor, and if there is any other like them, through whom Rso became acquainted with thee, the best per everything, my originale and brother.”