Ante-Nicene Fathers (Volume 2) - XVI - Book III of 'The stromata or miscellanies'

Required reading
Ante-Nicene Fathers (Volume 2) (Available from Amazon or free here) - Read Book 3 of 'The stromata or miscellanies'.

My summary
Today's reading isn't much of a reading unless you know Latin.

The editor makes an apology in a footnote for why the whole book was not translated: ' After much consideration, the Editors have deemed it best to give the whole of this book in Latin. [In the former Book, Clement has shown, not without a decided leaning to chaste celibacy, that marriage is a holy estate, and consistent with the perfect man in Christ. He now enters upon the refutation of the false-Gnostics and their licentious tenets. Professing a stricter rule to begin with, and despising the ordinances of the Creator, their result was the grossest immorality in practice. The melancholy consequences of an enforced celibacy are, here, all foreseen and foreshown; and this Book, though necessarily offensive to our Christian tastes, is most useful as a commentary upon the history of monasticism, and the celibacy of priests, in the Western churches. The resolution of the Edinburgh editors to give this Book to scholars only, in the Latin, is probably wise. I subjoin a succint analysis, in the elucidations.]'

So as my Latin is not that great, I can't give a summary today.

What grabbed me
I must admit I was a bit surprised about the editor's choice to not translate this large section. They've done the same thing earlier in the volume but only for select chapters - not a whole book!  It's a bizarre form of censorship that I must admit I hadn't come across in my personal reading before.

In my opinion, the work can't claim to be an English translation if you choose not to translate some sections based on their content. 

Next week's reading
Read Book 4 of 'The stromata or miscellanies'.

Now it's your turn
Please post your own notes and thoughts in the comments section below.