Saturday, December 21, 2024

Pope Gelasius I on the Existence of Another "Clement of Alexandria"

  

8. The history of Eusebius of Pamphilius is apocryphal.

The works of Tertullian are apocryphal.

The works of Lactantius are apocryphal.

The works of Africanus are apocryphal.

The works of Posthumianus and Gallus are apocryphal.

The works of Montanus, Priscilla and Maximilla are apocryphal.

All the works of Faustus the Manichee are apocryphal.

The works of Commodian are apocryphal.

The works of the other Clement of Alexandria are apocryphal. . . . (Gelasius, Letter 42, in The Letters of Gelasius I (492-496): Pastor and Micro-manager of the Church of Rome [trans. Bronwen Neil and Pauline Allen; Adnotationes: Commentaries on Early Christian and Patristic Texts; Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2014], 166)

 

 

The identity of this second Clement of Alexandria is uncertain. (Ibid., 166 n. 91)

 

This stood out as it shows there were at least two people with the appellation of “Clement of Alexandria”

 

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