68 [A beautiful maxim, and proving the habit of early Christians to use completory prayers. This the drunkard is in no state to do.]
73 [A passage not to be overlooked. Greek, mustiko\n su/mbolon.]
75 a0nqosmi/aj.Some suppose the word to be derived from the name of a town: "The Anthosmian."
77 [Here Clement satirizes heathen manners, and quote Athene, to shame Christians who imitate them.]
79 [The blood of the vine is Christ's blood. According to Clement, then, it remains in the Eucharist unchanged.]
80 Mark xvi. 25; Matt. xxvi. 29. [This also is a noteworthy use of the text.]
83 1 Cor. xi. 20. [Clement has already hinted his opinion, that this referred to a shameful custom of the Corinthians to let an agape precede the Eucharist; an abuse growing out of our Lord's eating of the Passover before he instituted the Eucharist.]
84 toutoij, an emendation for tou/tw|.
89 see Ecclus. xxxi. 19, where, however, we have a different reading.
90 Limpet-shaped cups. [On this chapter consult Kaye, p. 74.]
95 [See Elucidation I. e0nsta/sesin tou= Xristianou=.]
99 The reading a#lusij is here adopted. The passage is obscure.
101 [He distinguishes between the lewd music of Satanic odes (Tatian, cap. xxxiii. p. 79, supra), and another art of music of which he will soon speak.]
104 [Here instrumental music is allowed, though he turns everything into a type.]
106 [Even the heathen had such forms. The Christian grace before and after meat is here recognised as a matter of course. 1 Tim. iv. 3, 4.]
108 [Besides the hymn on lighting the lamps, he notes completory prayer at bedtime.]
109 Wisd. Sirach (Ecclus.) xxxix. 15, 16.
113 [Observe the contrast between the modest harmonies he praises, and the operatic strains he censures. Yet modern Christians delight in these florid and meretricious compositions, and they have intruded into the solemnities of worship. In Europe, dramatic composers of a sensual school have taken possession of the Latin ceremonial.]
114 [On gluttony and drinking, our author borrows much from Plato. Kaye, p. 74.]
116 Matt. vii. 18; Luke vi. 43.
117 [Our author is a terrible satirist; but it is instructive to see Christianity thus prescribing the minor morals, and banishing pagan brutality with holy scorn.]