Friday, December 17, 2010

A Second Example of Clement of Alexandria Identifying the Law of Moses as the μυστικὸν λόγον

It is to those who know hebdomad and ogdoad of the the mystic word (i.e. the Law) that the blessed David delivers clearly, praise thus (Σαφῶς δὲ τὸν περὶ ἑβδομάδος τε καὶ ὀγδοάδος μυστικὸν λόγον τοῖς γιγνώσκουσι παραδίδωσιν ὁ μακάριος Δαβὶδ ὧδέ πως ψάλλων): "Our years were exercised like a spider. The days of our years in them are seventy years; but if in strength, eighty years. And that will be to reign." [Str. 6.17]


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