The writings of Clement of Alexandria, Vol. 2 (of 2)

by Saint of Alexandria Clement

CONTENTS.

THE MISCELLANIES.
BOOK II.
CHAP.		PAGE
1.	Introductory,	[1]
2.	The Knowledge of God can be attained only through Faith,	[3]
3.	Faith not a product of Nature,	[6]
4.	Faith the foundation of all Knowledge,	[8]
5.	He proves by several examples that the Greeks drew fromthe Sacred Writers,	[12]
6.	The Excellence and Utility of Faith,	[16]
7.	The Utility of Fear. Objections Answered,	[20]
8.	The Vagaries of Basilides and Valentinus as to Fear beingthe Cause of Things,	[22]
9.	The Connection of the Christian Virtues,	[26]
10.	To what the Philosopher applies himself,	[29]
11.	The Knowledge which comes through Faith the Surest of All,	[30]
12.	Twofold Faith,	[33]
13.	On First and Second Repentance,	[35]
14.	How a Thing may be Involuntary,	[37]
15.	On the different kinds of Voluntary Actions, and the Sinsthence proceeding,	[38]
16.	How we are to explain the passages of Scripture whichascribe to God Human Affections,	[43]
17.	On the various kinds of Knowledge,	[45]
18.	The Mosaic Law the fountain of all Ethics, and the sourcefrom which the Greeks drew theirs,	[47]
19.	The true Gnostic is an imitator of God, especially in Beneficence,	[57]
20.	The true Gnostic exercises Patience and Self-restraint,	[60]
21.	Opinions of various Philosophers on the Chief Good,	[71]
22.	Plato’s Opinion, that the Chief Good consists in assimilationto God, and its agreement with Scripture,	[74]
23.	On Marriage,	[78]
BOOK III.
1.	Basilidis Sententiam de Continentia et Nuptiis refutat,	[84]
2.	Carpocratis et Epiphanis Sententiam de Feminarum Communitate refutat,	[86]
3.	Quatenus Plato aliique e veteribus præiverint Marcionitisaliisque Hæreticis, qui a Nuptiis ideo abstinent quiaCreaturam malam existimant et nasci Homines inPœnam opinantur,	[89]
4.	Quibus prætextibus utantur Hæretici ad omnis generislicentiam et libidinem exercendam,	[95]
5.	Duo genera Hæreticorum notat: prius illorum qui omniaomnibus licere pronuntiant, quos refutat,	[102]
6.	Secundum genus Hæreticorum aggreditur, illorum scilicetqui ex impia de deo omnium conditore Sententia, Continentiamexercent,	[105]
7.	Qua in re Christianorum Continentia eam quam sibi vindicantPhilosophi antecellat,	[110]
8.	Loca S. Scripturæ ab Hæreticis in vituperium Matrimoniiadducta explicat; et primo verba Apostoli Rom. vi. 14,ab Hæreticorum perversa interpretatione vindicat,	[112]
9.	Dictum Christi ad Salomen exponit, quod tanquam in vituperiumNuptiarum prolatum Hæretici allegabant,	[113]
10.	Verba Christi Matt. xviii. 20, mystice exponit,	[116]
11.	Legis et Christi mandatum de non Concupiscendo exponit,	[117]
12.	Verba Apostoli 1 Cor. vii. 5, 39, 40, aliaque S. Scripturæloca eodem spectantia explicat,	[121]
13.	Julii Cassiani Hæretici verbis respondet; item loco quem exEvangelio Apocrypho idem adduxerat,	[128]
14.	2 Cor. xi. 3, et Eph. iv. 24, exponit,	[129]
15.	1 Cor. vii. 1; Luc. xiv. 26; Isa. lvi. 2, 3, explicat,	[130]
16.	Jer. xx. 14; Job xiv. 3; Ps. l. 5; 1 Cor. ix. 27, exponit,	[132]
17.	Qui Nuptias et Generationem malas asserunt, ii et dei Creationemet ipsam evangelii Dispensationem vituperant,	[133]
18.	Duas extremas Opiniones esse vitandas: primam illorum quiCreatoris odio a Nuptiis abstinent; alteram illorum quihinc occasionem arripiunt nefariis libidinibus indulgendi,	[135]
BOOK IV.
1.	Order of Contents,	[139]
2.	The meaning of the name Stromata [Miscellanies],	[140]
3.	The true Excellence of Man,	[142]
4.	The Praises of Martyrdom,	[145]
5.	On Contempt for Pain, Poverty, and other external things,	[148]
6.	Some points in the Beatitudes,	[150]
7.	The Blessedness of the Martyr,	[158]
8.	Women as well as Men, Slaves as well as Freemen, Candidatesfor the Martyr’s Crown,	[165]
9.	Christ’s Sayings respecting Martyrdom,	[170]
10.	Those who offered themselves for Martyrdom reproved,	[173]
11.	The objection, Why do you suffer if God cares for you,answered,	[174]
12.	Basilides’ idea of Martyrdom refuted,	[175]
13.	Valentinian’s Vagaries about the Abolition of Death refuted,	[179]
14.	The Love of All, even of our Enemies,	[182]
15.	On avoiding Offence,	[183]
16.	Passages of Scripture respecting the Constancy, Patience,and Love of the Martyrs,	[184]
17.	Passages from Clement’s Epistle to the Corinthians onMartyrdom,	[187]
18.	On Love, and the repressing of our Desires,	[190]
19.	Women as well as Men capable of Perfection,	[193]
20.	A Good Wife,	[196]
21.	Description of the Perfect Man, or Gnostic,	[199]
22.	The true Gnostic does Good, not from fear of Punishmentor hope of Reward, but only for the sake of Good itself,	[202]
23.	The same subject continued,	[207]
24.	The reason and end of Divine Punishments,	[210]
25.	True Perfection consists in the Knowledge and Love of God,	[212]
26.	How the Perfect Man treats the Body and the Things of theWorld,	[215]
BOOK V.
1.	On Faith,	[220]
2.	On Hope,	[228]
3.	The objects of Faith and Hope perceived by the Mind alone,	[229]
4.	Divine Things wrapped up in Figures both in the Sacred andin Heathen Writers,	[232]
5.	On the Symbols of Pythagoras,	[236]
6.	The Mystic Meaning of the Tabernacle and its Furniture,	[240]
7.	The Egyptian Symbols and Enigmas of Sacred Things,	[245]
8.	The use of the Symbolic Style by Poets and Philosophers,	[247]
9.	Reasons for veiling the Truth in Symbols,	[254]
10.	The opinion of the Apostles on veiling the Mysteries of theFaith,	[257]
11.	Abstraction from Material Things necessary in order to attainto the true Knowledge of God,	[261]
12.	God cannot be embraced in Words or by the Mind,	[267]
13.	The Knowledge of God a Divine Gift, according to thePhilosophers,	[270]
14.	Greek Plagiarisms from the Hebrews,	[274]
BOOK VI.
1.	Plan,	[302]
2.	The subject of Plagiarisms resumed. The Greeks plagiarizedfrom one another,	[304]
3.	Plagiarism by the Greeks of the Miracles related in theSacred Books of the Hebrews,	[319]
4.	The Greeks drew many of their Philosophical Tenets fromthe Egyptian and Indian Gymnosophists,	[323]
5.	The Greeks had some Knowledge of the true God,	[326]
6.	The Gospel was preached to Jews and Gentiles in Hades,	[328]
7.	What true Philosophy is, and whence so called,	[335]
8.	Philosophy is Knowledge given by God,	[339]
9.	The Gnostic free of all Perturbations of the Soul,	[344]
10.	The Gnostic avails himself of the help of all Human Knowledge,	[349]
11.	The Mystical Meanings in the proportions of Numbers, GeometricalRatios, and Music,	[352]
12.	Human Nature possesses an adaptation for Perfection; theGnostic alone attains it,	[359]
13.	Degrees of Glory in Heaven corresponding with the Dignitiesof the Church below,	[365]
14.	Degrees of Glory in Heaven,	[366]
15.	Different Degrees of Knowledge,	[371]
16.	Gnostic Exposition of the Decalogue,	[383]
17.	Philosophy conveys only an imperfect Knowledge of God,	[393]
18.	The use of Philosophy to the Gnostic,	[401]
BOOK VII.
1.	The Gnostic a true Worshipper of God, and unjustly calumniatedby Unbelievers as an Atheist,	[406]
2.	The Son the Ruler and Saviour of All,	[409]
3.	The Gnostic aims at the nearest Likeness possible to Godand His Son,	[414]
4.	The Heathens made Gods like themselves, whence springsall Superstition,	[421]
5.	The Holy Soul a more excellent Temple than any Edificebuilt by Man,	[424]
6.	Prayers and Praise from a Pure Mind, ceaselessly offered,far better than Sacrifices,	[426]
7.	What sort of Prayer the Gnostic employs, and how it isheard by God,	[431]
8.	The Gnostic so addicted to Truth as not to need to use anOath,	[442]
9.	Those who teach others, ought to excel in Virtues,	[444]
10.	Steps to Perfection,	[446]
11.	Description of the Gnostic’s Life,	[449]
12.	The true Gnostic is Beneficent, Continent, and despisesWorldly Things,	[455]
13.	Description of the Gnostic continued,	[466]
14.	Description of the Gnostic furnished by an Exposition of1 Cor. vi. 1, etc.,	[468]
15.	The objection to join the Church on account of the diversityof Heresies answered,	[472]
16.	Scripture the Criterion by which Truth and Heresy are distinguished,	[476]
17.	The Tradition of the Church prior to that of the Heresies,	[485]
18.	The Distinction between Clean and Unclean Animals in theLaw symbolical of the Distinction between the Church,and Jews, and Heretics,	[488]
BOOK VIII.
1.	The object of Philosophical and Theological Inquiry—theDiscovery of Truth,	[490]
2.	The necessity of Perspicuous Definition,	[491]
3.	Demonstration defined,	[492]
4.	To prevent Ambiguity, we must begin with clear Definition,	[496]
5.	Application of Demonstration to Sceptical Suspense of Judgment,	[500]
6.	Definitions, Genera, and Species,	[502]
7.	On the Causes of Doubt or Assent,	[505]
8.	The Method of classifying Things and Names,	[506]
9.	On the different kinds of Causes,	[508]
Indexes—Index of Texts,		[515]
Index of Subjects,		[525]

THE MISCELLANIES.