THE CLEMENTINES. CLEMENTINA.
A book containing various homilies from the mouth of the holy apostle Peter, written by the holy Clement; the so-called Clementia, that is, the writings of Clement. This same book contains the following: three prologues, twenty homilies. — J. B. Cotelerius brought these out of the darkness, translated them into Latin, and illustrated them with notes.
TESTIMONIA OF THE ANCIENTS CONCERNING THE CLEMENTINES.
(COTELERIUS, *Patres apostolici*, I, 605.)I. A ST. ATHANASIUS, or someone else, at the end of the *Synopsis of Sacred Scripture*. These are the books of the New Testament which are disputed, etc. The Clementina. From which the truer and God-inspired things were selected and translated; these are what are read, etc.
II. *The Chronicum which they call the Alexandrian*, p. 64 of the Rader edition. B The apostle Peter says concerning this (Nimrod) in the Clementines, and the rest which we have set down above (Vol. I) among the *Testimonia of the ancients concerning the Recognitions*: where you may also see another passage.
III. NICEPHORUS CALLISTI, *Ecclesiastical History*, Book III, Ch. 48. Eusebius Pamphili also rejects the long writings of this (Clement), which he says are a dialogue between Peter and Apion; C which he says do not retain the accurate character of apostolic orthodoxy. But I, if indeed he understands those which are now called the Clementina among us, do not agree; for they are much accepted by the Church: but if there are any others besides these, I cannot say.
IV. The Author of the *Collectanea on the dogmas of the faith from ecclesiastical writers*, a manuscript in the most famous Claromontane library, also mentioned by the most learned Philip Labbe in the *Conspectus of the new edition of St. Damascene*, chapter 1, “On the theology in the Trinity and in the Monad,” begins with a testimony of the Clementines, in this way:
D Of the holy Peter, the prince of the apostles; from the Clementines. Since I have already said that sensible things are a leading-by-the-hand to intelligible things, so that, using it as a sort of path, we may make a safe and firm exposition of theology; come, let us use the image in passing to find the archetype. The rational human, being made to the image and likeness of God, bears within himself symbolically the of the Maker