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According to the testimony of Eusebius, Clement of Alexandria wrote, in addition to the Stromata, a collection of texts equal in size. These are the eight­‑volume Hypotyposes, commenting on selected scriptural passages from both the Old and New Testaments. While the Stromata (with the exception of the eighth book) was preserved in its entirety, only fragments were preserved from the Hypotyposes. The aim of the present paper is threefold: (1) to summarise how many fragments of Clement’s lost writing Hypotyposes we have, paying close attention to those fragments which are not part of Stählin’s edition – namely, the fragment discovered by Di Benedetti and the fragments surviving in Arabic catenae; (2) to provide a critical evaluation of Riedinger’s hypothesis that certain texts by ps.­‑Caesarius and Isidore of Pelusium contain 24 new fragments of Clement’s Hypotyposes; (3) and lastly, to present arguments for the hypothesis that the text preserved as Eclogae propheticae could have (together with fragments of the Hypotyposes) constituted Clement’s preparatory notes for a Biblical commentary.
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The article introduces and compares two different commentaries on Psalm 18:5c LXX found in the writings of Eusebius of Caesarea Eclogae propheticae and Commentaria in Psalmos. The commentary in Eclogae is based on the Greek translation of Ps 18 in the Septuagint and is Christological. Verse Ps 18:5c LXX is expounded as a metaphor of the unity of the Godhead and the human body in the Son. The explanation in Commentaria uses non­Septuagint Greek translations, it adopts a more literal reading according to which verses Ps 18:5c–7 LXX convey the sun´s dutiful service in the sky to its Creator and Lord. The commentary in Eclogae displays an in all probability earlier, theologically more courageous exegesis, the explanation in Commentaria is more biblical, with the elucidation of the passage with the Scripture itself (a reference to Genesis 1:16–17).
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Clement of Alexandria is well known as the author of Stromata I–VII and Paedagogus I–III, and also the minor works Protrepticus and Quis dives salvetur?. There are several texts by Clement, however, which are often neglected by scholars concerned with Clement’s theology: the so-called Stromata VIII, Excerpta ex Theodoto, Eclogae propheticae and the extant fragments of Hypotyposes. These texts have been evaluated as Clement’s masterpiece by certain scholars while others perceive them as strange and dissonant to Clement’s “standard” theology represented by Stromata and Paedagogus. There were even opinions in the past claiming that these texts represent heretical ideas of a too young or too old Clement. The aim of this paper is to present these works in the light of contemporary scholarship and encourage a reading of these texts as valuable evidence of early Christian (orthodox and heterodox) biblical hermeneutics.
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