[730] 1 Pet. ii. 18.
[731] 1 Pet. iii. 8. Clement has substituted ταπεινόφρονες for φιλόφρονες (courteous).
[732] This passage has been variously amended and translated. The reading of the text has been adhered to, but ὀρθόνου has been coupled with what follows.
[733] Sylburg suggests παριούσας (passing by) instead of παριζούσας.
[734] κύβος, a die marked on all the six sides.
[735] διὰ τῶν ἀστραγάλων. The ἀστραγάλοι were dice marked on four sides only. Clement seems to use these terms here indifferently.
[736] Lowth’s conjecture of ἔρως instead of ἐρᾶ has been adopted.
[737] Lev. xi. 13, 14; Deut. xiv. 12.
[738] Ps. i. 1, Septuagint.
[739] Acts iii. 14.