OE the Swaniatiis:
PISTIS, GNOSIS, COSMOLOGY, AND THEOLOGY i PISTIS, GNOSIS, The first two meanings concern some definite epistemological ) be involved in an infi questions; the third meaning belongs to the religious sphere, tion itself will be ove They are, however, closely related to one another.! It will be i are themselves trustwor best to examine each of them, together with its philosophical
. are undemonst sources,? and then to show their mutual relations. In this way, ; sane hall calso: be able to: wniderstand better what Clementiexactl stration, there must n oe : = oe ae ad ahoars lati é I :
Y trustworthy and whic thought: about patsiand aboutsts relations with geass. ml Therefore every demo y strated belief.
1. The first meaning of pistis occurs in the following passage 7) OE the Swaniatiis:
¥ Here Clement (or, mor | which represents his sou Strom. vii. 95. 6 (iii. 67. 25f.): etxdrws roivuy miore weprhaBdvtes be based on undemonst dvardSeuxrov tiv dpyiy ..
« | trustworthy (ra é€ atr&v :
; end of the passage, he The idea which underlies this passage is expounded at some amés Pease length in the so-called eighth book of the Stromateis, which conCPOTRDEUETOU SPR: TEOIRY, eng 'al d fo * ieartinidaic antl if lercloia | 7. 2 (iii, 83. 23-4), and Pains ROTAE MaterBS ACANg Maun Y Wilh OB} ANS SPSieme oer possible to assume the e The following passage is particularly worth noticing:
: ciple, eixeétws roivuv mic Strom. viii. 6. 7-7. 2 (iii. 83. 16-24): either everything needs a ™ Strom. vii. 95. 6 (iii. 55. demonstration, or something is itself trustworthy. In the first case
| The same conception, we, by requiring the demonstration of each demonstration, shall in some definitions of de Strom. viii. i a x 2 A better comprehension of Clement's doctrine ofpistis can only be attained
SCOPES OUTCEA by means of a detailed inquiry into its sources, which has not yet been made.
Daskalakis, 33-5, refers to the Stoic and Epicurean doctrine of zpéAnyus as well i TpwTwY TIS els TO Cn as to the Stoic ovyxard@eors;Camelot, 29ff., does not go much beyond the results
P, f aaa id Danie Primm — pee'i pes toning oe Sine coc , To the existence of an a of mpéAnyus and of the xowwal vor (p. 23) and to speaking of an 'Einbau der j + :
Glaubensdefinition in die stoische Erkenntnislehre' (p. 25) and of an 'Unbeweisbara the dialectic pr OCEsS att keit der obersten Prinzipien .
. ganz im Sinne des Aristotcles "(p. 27). Vélker is at the end of the sixth b satisfied with a general assertion: 'Er [i.e. Clement] entlehnt reichlich aus allen q | emt rod mavros dpyiy idv, philosophischen Systemen, wobei er selbst die Schule Epikurs nicht ausschlieBt, who developed this doc er sucht Plato und Aristoteles fiir seine eigene Gedanken nutzbar zu machen' a | :
' pe J a : 'oc (pi aaa).
( maintains that it is imp 3 The view held by T. Zahn, 104-30, according to which the so-called eighth every demonstration, an book ofthe Stromateis, the Excerpta ex Theodoto, and the Eclogae propheticae represent
|) from some absolut the abridgements made in some later period of the original eighth book of the | absolute, un Stromateis as it had been composed by Clement, has been rightly criticized by I. von Arnim, who has pointed out that the material on logic which has come | * The same idea appears a ' down to us under the heading 'Stromateis, book VIII' could not form a part of the Passage, as Priimm, 28 n. 18, h eighth book ofthe Stromateis which Clement intended to write, but is mainly based f *141°3. On the Aristotelian te | on notes taken by Clement himself during his reading of some handbooks of logic
| very exact correspondences co (see particularly p. 12). That Arnim's view was the correct one has been proved gets reprint of Stahlin's editio | by Ernst, who has clearly shown that Clement used this material throughout the "pendence on Aristotle is not first seven books of the Stromateis (see especially pp. 8-11, 13-15, 24-30, 41-7). q intermediate source. hy iI i i