of Hebrew names and other typically Alexandrian procedures far beyond the more frugal usage customary in the Asiatic School. But we must also recognise that, notwithstanding the impressive borrowing from Philo’s exegesis, Clement dissociates himself fundamentally from Philo in that his interpretation of the Old Testament remains solidly anchored in Christ, i.e. in history. If they are taken one by one, almost all the characteristics of Origen’s exegesis, from the distinction of several