[817] Rom. xi. 33.

[818] Alluding to Gen. xviii. 6; the word used is ἐγκρυφίαι, which Clement, following Philo, from its derivation, takes to signify occult mysteries.

[819] 1 Cor. vi. 6, 7.

[820] Col. ii. 2, 3.

[821] Matt. xii. 11; Mark iv. 11; Luke viii. 10.

[822] Ps. lxxviii. 2.

[823] Matt. xiii. 33.

[824] According to the conjecture of Sylburgius, σύντονος is adopted for σύντομος.

[825] Empedocles.

[826] John i. 18.