Keywords
Book of Sirach
Clement of Alexandria
John Chrysostom
old age
music
rules of behaviour
Clement of Alexandria
John Chrysostom
old age
music
rules of behaviour
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Szymański, M. (2016). Old Man’s Speech and Music. Sir 32:3 Interpreted by Clement of Alexandria and John Chrysostom. Symbolae Philologorum Posnaniensium Graecae Et Latinae, 25(2), 5–9. https://doi.org/10.14746/sppgl.2015.XXV.2.1
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Abstract
The article tries to answer the question why Clement of Alexandria (Paed. II 58, 1–2) and John Chrysostom (De Eleazaro et septem pueris, PG, vol. 63, coll. 523–4) propose peculiar interpretations of Sir 32:3. At first sight it might seem that the writers used texts of that verse in the Septuagint that were different from its present shape, but the real causes of the discrepancies were, in Clement’s case, his abhorrence of music, and in John Chrysostom’s case, the situation in which his speech was delivered.References
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Clement of Alexandria, The Instructor, transl. W. Wilson, [in:] Ante-Nicene Fathers, ed. A. Roberts, J. Donaldson, A. Cleveland Coxe, vol. II, Buffalo, N.Y. 1885, p. 207–298.
C.H. Cosgrove, Clement of Alexandria and Early Christian Music, “Journal of Early Christian Studies” 14, fasc. 3, 2006, p. 255–282.
St. John Chrysostom, On Eleazar and the Seven Boys, transl. W. Mayer, [in:] St. John Chrysostom, The Cult of the Saints, ed. W. Mayer, B. Neil, Crestwood, N.Y. 2006, p. 119–134.
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