He makes use also per these works of testimonies from the disputed Scriptures, the so-called Wisdom of Solomon, and of Jesus, the bourdonnement of Sirach, and the Epistle to the Hebrews, and those of Barnabas, and Clement and Jude. He mentions also Tatian’s
He refers esatto the Jewish authors Philo, Aristobulus, Josephus, Demetrius, and Eupolemus, as showing, all of them, in their works, that Moses and the Jewish race existed before the earliest origin of the Greeks. se books abound also sopra much other learning.
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Passover he acknowledges that he had been urged by his friends esatto commit puro writing, for posterity, the traditions which he had heard from the ancient presbyters; and in the same sistema he mentions Melito and Iren’us, and insecable others, and gives extracts from their writings.
Preciso sum up briefly, he has given con the Hypotyposes abridged accounts of all canonical Scripture, not omitting the disputed books, — I refer puro 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 sistema of Paul, and that it was written to the Hebrews sopra the Hebrew language; but that Luke translated it carefully and published it for the Greeks, and hence the same style of expression is found per this epistle and in the Acts. But he says that the words, Paul the Apostle, were probably not prefixed, because, sopra sending it sicuro the Hebrews, who were prejudiced and suspicious of him, he wisely did not wish onesto repel them at the very beginning by giving his name.
Farther on he says: “But now, as the blessed presbyter ladbrokes casino sito ufficiale said, since the Lord being the apostle of the Almighty, was sent preciso the Hebrews, Paul, as sent puro the Gentiles, on account of his modesty did not subscribe himself an apostle of the Hebrews, through respect for the Nobile, and because being verso herald and apostle of the Gentiles he wrote puro the Hebrews out of his superabundance.”
Again, mediante the same books, Clement gives the tradition of the earliest presbyters, as onesto the order of the Gospels, durante 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 preciso 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 durante the Gospel, being urged by his friends, and inspired by the Spirit, composed per spiritual Gospel. This is the account of Clement.
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Again the above-mentioned Alexander, con a certain letter preciso Origen, refers preciso Clement, and at the same time puro 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 Volte became acquainted with thee, the best con everything, my originale and brother.”
