Clement of Alexandria, Miscellanies (Stromata) Book VII

PREFACE.

Not only Cambridge, but the Church at large, owes a deep debt of gratitude to the wise and public-spirited action of the Master, the Reverend Dr. Phear, and the Fellows of Emmanuel College. In 1872, they persuaded the former Fellow of Trinity to leave the beloved and fruitful seclusion of St. Ippolyt’s and become a resident member of their own society. During the six years that passed before Dr. Hort was elected to a Divinity Professorship, he lectured at the College on Origen’s Contra Celsum Against Celsus, the Epistle to the Ephesians, Irenaeus’s Book III, the First Epistle of St. Peter, the First Epistle to the Corinthians, the Epistle of St. James, the Seventh Book of the Stromateis Miscellanies, and chapters 1–3 of the Apocalypse The Book of Revelation.

I felt it to be a high privilege and honor to be entrusted with the task of editing the notes on Clement, which had been left behind by my old friend and schoolfellow. These notes, which are written partly in pencil and partly in ink on an interleaved copy of Dindorf’s text, were not continued beyond section 69. At the end of section 66, the date March 15, 1875, appears, likely denoting the conclusion of a course of lectures.