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The Writings of Clement of Alexandria, Volume 2

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The Miscellanies of Clement of Alexandria, volume 2.

Chapters 128
  1. CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY. ≈ 5 min
  2. CHAPTER II. THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD CAN BE ATTAINED ONLY THROUGH FAITH. ≈ 10 min
  3. CHAPTER III. FAITH NOT A PRODUCT OF NATURE. ≈ 3 min
  4. CHAPTER IV. FAITH THE FOUNDATION OF ALL KNOWLEDGE. ≈ 12 min
  5. CHAPTER V. HE PROVES BY SEVERAL EXAMPLES THAT THE GREEKS DREW FROM THE SACRED WRITERS. ≈ 9 min
  6. CHAPTER VI. THE EXCELLENCE AND UTILITY OF FAITH. ≈ 12 min
  7. CHAPTER VII. THE UTILITY OF FEAR. OBJECTIONS ANSWERED. ≈ 7 min
  8. CHAPTER VIII. THE VAGARIES OF BASILIDES AND VALENTINUS AS TO FEAR BEING THE CAUSE OF THINGS. ≈ 8 min
  9. CHAPTER IX. THE CONNECTION OF THE CHRISTIAN VIRTUES. ≈ 9 min
  10. CHAPTER X. TO WHAT THE PHILOSOPHER APPLIES HIMSELF. ≈ 3 min
  11. CHAPTER XI. THE KNOWLEDGE WHICH COMES THROUGH FAITH THE SUREST OF ALL. ≈ 8 min
  12. CHAPTER XII. TWOFOLD FAITH. ≈ 5 min
  13. CHAPTER XIII. ON FIRST AND SECOND REPENTANCE. ≈ 6 min
  14. CHAPTER XIV. HOW A THING MAY BE INVOLUNTARY. ≈ 3 min
  15. CHAPTER XV. ON THE DIFFERENT KINDS OF VOLUNTARY ACTIONS, AND THE SINS THENCE PROCEEDING. ≈ 12 min
  16. CHAPTER XVI. HOW WE ARE TO EXPLAIN THE PASSAGES OF SCRIPTURE WHICH ASCRIBE TO GOD HUMAN AFFECTIONS. ≈ 6 min
  17. CHAPTER XVII. ON THE VARIOUS KINDS OF KNOWLEDGE. ≈ 3 min
  18. CHAPTER XVIII. THE MOSAIC LAW THE FOUNTAIN OF ALL ETHICS, AND THE SOURCE FROM WHICH THE GREEKS DREW THEIRS. ≈ 28 min
  19. CHAPTER XIX. THE TRUE GNOSTIC IS AN IMITATOR OF GOD, ESPECIALLY IN BENEFICENCE. ≈ 10 min
  20. CHAPTER XX. THE TRUE GNOSTIC EXERCISES PATIENCE AND SELF-RESTRAINT. ≈ 30 min
  21. CHAPTER XXI. OPINIONS OF VARIOUS PHILOSOPHERS ON THE CHIEF GOOD. ≈ 8 min
  22. CHAPTER XXII. PLATO'S OPINION, THAT THE CHIEF GOOD CONSISTS IN ASSIMILATION TO GOD, AND ITS AGREEMENT WITH SCRIPTURE. ≈ 11 min
  23. CHAPTER XXIII. ON MARRIAGE. ≈ 14 min
  24. CAPUT I. BASILIDIS SENTENTIAM DE CONTINENTIA ET NUPTIIS REFUTAT. ≈ 4 min
  25. CAPUT II. CARPOCRATIS ET EPIPHANIS SENTENTIAM DE FEMINARUM COMMUNITATE REFUTAT. ≈ 8 min
  26. CAPUT III. QUATENUS PLATO ALIIQUE E VETERIBUS PRÆIVERINT MARCIONITIS ALIISQUE HÆRETICIS, QUI A NUPTIIS IDEO ABSTINENT QU ≈ 11 min
  27. CAPUT IV. QUIBUS PRÆTEXTIBUS UTANTUR HÆRETICI AD OMNIS GENERIS LICENTIAM ET LIBIDINEM EXERCENDAM. ≈ 16 min
  28. CAPUT V. DUO GENERA HÆRETICORUM NOTAT: PRIUS ILLORUM QUI OMNIA OMNIBUS LICERE PRONUNTIANT, QUOS REFUTAT. ≈ 7 min
  29. CAPUT VI. SECUNDUM GENUS HÆRETICORUM AGGREDITUR, ILLORUM SCILICET QUI EX IMPIA DE DEO OMNIUM CONDITORE SENTENTIA, CONTIN ≈ 13 min
  30. CAPUT VII. QUA IN RE CHRISTIANORUM CONTINENTIA EAM QUAM SIBI VINDICANT PHILOSOPHI ANTECELLAT. ≈ 4 min
  31. CAPUT VIII. LOCA S. SCRIPTURÆ AB HÆRETICIS IN VITUPERIUM MATRIMONII ADDUCTA EXPLICAT; ET PRIMO VERBA APOSTOLI ROM. VI. 1 ≈ 2 min
  32. CAPUT IX. DICTUM CHRISTI AD SALOMEN EXPONIT, QUOD TANQUAM IN VITUPERIUM NUPTIARUM PROLATUM HÆRETICI ALLEGABANT. ≈ 5 min
  33. CAPUT X. VERBA CHRISTI MATT. XVIII. 20, MYSTICE EXPONIT. ≈ 3 min
  34. CAPUT XI. LEGIS ET CHRISTI MANDATUM DE NON CONCUPISCENDO EXPONIT. ≈ 8 min
  35. CAPUT XII. VERBA APOSTOLI 1 COR. VII. 5, 39, 40, ALIAQUE S. SCRIPTURÆ LOCA EODEM SPECTANTIA EXPLICAT. ≈ 16 min
  36. CAPUT XIII. JULII CASSIANI HÆRETICI VERBIS RESPONDET; ITEM LOCO QUEM EX EVANGELIO APOCRYPHO IDEM ADDUXERAT. ≈ 2 min
  37. CAPUT XIV. 2 COR. XI. 3, ET EPH. IV. 24, EXPONIT. ≈ 2 min
  38. CAPUT XV. 1 COR. VII. 1; LUC. XIV. 26; ISA. LVI. 2, 3, EXPLICAT. ≈ 4 min
  39. CAPUT XVI. JER. XX. 14; JOB XIV. 3; PS. L. 5; 1 COR. IX. 27, EXPONIT. ≈ 3 min
  40. CAPUT XVII. QUI NUPTIAS ET GENERATIONEM MALAS ASSERUNT, II ET DEI CREATIONEM ET IPSAM EVANGELII DISPENSATIONEM VITUPERAN ≈ 4 min
  41. CAPUT XVIII. DUAS EXTREMAS OPINIONES ESSE VITANDAS: PRIMAM ILLORUM QUI CREATORIS ODIO A NUPTIIS ABSTINENT; ALTERAM ILLOR ≈ 7 min
  42. CHAPTER I. ORDER OF CONTENTS. ≈ 4 min
  43. CHAPTER II. THE MEANING OF THE NAME STROMATA [MISCELLANIES]. ≈ 4 min
  44. CHAPTER III. THE TRUE EXCELLENCE OF MAN. ≈ 8 min
  45. CHAPTER IV. THE PRAISES OF MARTYRDOM. ≈ 8 min
  46. CHAPTER V. ON CONTEMPT FOR PAIN, POVERTY, AND OTHER EXTERNAL THINGS. ≈ 6 min
  47. CHAPTER VI. SOME POINTS IN THE BEATITUDES. ≈ 23 min
  48. CHAPTER VII. THE BLESSEDNESS OF THE MARTYR. ≈ 18 min
  49. CHAPTER VIII. WOMEN AS WELL AS MEN, SLAVES AS WELL AS FREEMEN, CANDIDATES FOR THE MARTYR'S CROWN. ≈ 17 min
  50. CHAPTER IX. CHRIST'S SAYINGS RESPECTING MARTYRDOM. ≈ 8 min
  51. CHAPTER X. THOSE WHO OFFERED THEMSELVES FOR MARTYRDOM REPROVED. ≈ 2 min
  52. CHAPTER XI. THE OBJECTION, WHY DO YOU SUFFER IF GOD CARES FOR YOU, ANSWERED. ≈ 4 min
  53. CHAPTER XII. BASILIDES' IDEA OF MARTYRDOM REFUTED. ≈ 11 min
  54. CHAPTER XIII. VALENTINIAN'S VAGARIES ABOUT THE ABOLITION OF DEATH REFUTED. ≈ 9 min
  55. CHAPTER XIV. THE LOVE OF ALL, EVEN OF OUR ENEMIES. ≈ 2 min
  56. CHAPTER XV. ON AVOIDING OFFENCE. ≈ 4 min
  57. CHAPTER XVI. PASSAGES OF SCRIPTURE RESPECTING THE CONSTANCY, PATIENCE, AND LOVE OF THE MARTYRS. ≈ 8 min
  58. CHAPTER XVII. PASSAGES FROM CLEMENT'S EPISTLE TO THE CORINTHIANS ON MARTYRDOM. ≈ 8 min
  59. CHAPTER XVIII. ON LOVE, AND THE REPRESSING OF OUR DESIRES. ≈ 9 min
  60. CHAPTER XIX. WOMEN AS WELL AS MEN CAPABLE OF PERFECTION. ≈ 8 min
  61. CHAPTER XX. A GOOD WIFE. ≈ 5 min
  62. CHAPTER XXI. DESCRIPTION OF THE PERFECT MAN, OR GNOSTIC. ≈ 9 min
  63. CHAPTER XXII. THE TRUE GNOSTIC DOES GOOD, NOT FROM FEAR OF PUNISHMENT OR HOPE OF REWARD, BUT ONLY FOR THE SAKE OF GOOD I ≈ 16 min
  64. CHAPTER XXIII. THE SAME SUBJECT CONTINUED. ≈ 8 min
  65. CHAPTER XXIV. THE REASON AND END OF DIVINE PUNISHMENTS. ≈ 3 min
  66. CHAPTER XXV. TRUE PERFECTION CONSISTS IN THE KNOWLEDGE AND LOVE OF GOD. ≈ 9 min
  67. CHAPTER XXVI. HOW THE PERFECT MAN TREATS THE BODY AND THE THINGS OF THE WORLD. ≈ 13 min
  68. CHAPTER I. ON FAITH. ≈ 24 min
  69. CHAPTER II. ON HOPE. ≈ 2 min
  70. CHAPTER III. THE OBJECTS OF FAITH AND HOPE PERCEIVED BY THE MIND ALONE. ≈ 7 min
  71. CHAPTER IV. DIVINE THINGS WRAPPED UP IN FIGURES BOTH IN THE SACRED AND IN HEATHEN WRITERS. ≈ 11 min
  72. CHAPTER V. ON THE SYMBOLS OF PYTHAGORAS. ≈ 10 min
  73. CHAPTER VI. THE MYSTIC MEANING OF THE TABERNACLE AND ITS FURNITURE. ≈ 15 min
  74. CHAPTER VII. THE EGYPTIAN SYMBOLS AND ENIGMAS OF SACRED THINGS. ≈ 4 min
  75. CHAPTER VIII. THE USE OF THE SYMBOLIC STYLE BY POETS AND PHILOSOPHERS. ≈ 20 min
  76. CHAPTER IX. REASONS FOR VEILING THE TRUTH IN SYMBOLS. ≈ 7 min
  77. CHAPTER X. THE OPINION OF THE APOSTLES ON VEILING THE MYSTERIES OF THE FAITH. ≈ 13 min
  78. CHAPTER XI. ABSTRACTION FROM MATERIAL THINGS NECESSARY IN ORDER TO ATTAIN TO THE TRUE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD. ≈ 17 min
  79. CHAPTER XII. GOD CANNOT BE EMBRACED IN WORDS OR BY THE MIND. ≈ 9 min
  80. CHAPTER XIII. THE KNOWLEDGE OF GOD A DIVINE GIFT, ACCORDING TO THE PHILOSOPHERS. ≈ 9 min
  81. CHAPTER XIV. GREEK PLAGIARISMS FROM THE HEBREWS. ≈ 69 min
  82. CHAPTER I. PLAN. ≈ 5 min
  83. CHAPTER II. THE SUBJECT OF PLAGIARISMS RESUMED. THE GREEKS PLAGIARIZED FROM ONE ANOTHER. ≈ 30 min
  84. CHAPTER III. PLAGIARISM BY THE GREEKS OF THE MIRACLES RELATED IN THE SACRED BOOKS OF THE HEBREWS. ≈ 12 min
  85. CHAPTER IV. THE GREEKS DREW MANY OF THEIR PHILOSOPHICAL TENETS FROM THE EGYPTIAN AND INDIAN GYMNOSOPHISTS. ≈ 7 min
  86. CHAPTER V. THE GREEKS HAD SOME KNOWLEDGE OF THE TRUE GOD. ≈ 7 min
  87. CHAPTER VI. THE GOSPEL WAS PREACHED TO JEWS AND GENTILES IN HADES. ≈ 17 min
  88. CHAPTER VII. WHAT TRUE PHILOSOPHY IS, AND WHENCE SO CALLED. ≈ 12 min
  89. CHAPTER VIII. PHILOSOPHY IS KNOWLEDGE GIVEN BY GOD. ≈ 13 min
  90. CHAPTER IX. THE GNOSTIC FREE OF ALL PERTURBATIONS OF THE SOUL. ≈ 15 min
  91. CHAPTER X. THE GNOSTIC AVAILS HIMSELF OF THE HELP OF ALL HUMAN KNOWLEDGE. ≈ 6 min
  92. CHAPTER XI. THE MYSTICAL MEANINGS IN THE PROPORTIONS OF NUMBERS, GEOMETRICAL RATIOS, AND MUSIC. ≈ 19 min
  93. CHAPTER XII. HUMAN NATURE POSSESSES AN ADAPTATION FOR PERFECTION; THE GNOSTIC ALONE ATTAINS IT. ≈ 15 min
  94. CHAPTER XIII. DEGREES OF GLORY IN HEAVEN CORRESPONDING WITH THE DIGNITIES OF THE CHURCH BELOW. ≈ 4 min
  95. CHAPTER XIV. DEGREES OF GLORY IN HEAVEN. ≈ 12 min
  96. CHAPTER XV. DIFFERENT DEGREES OF KNOWLEDGE. ≈ 31 min
  97. CHAPTER XVI. GNOSTIC EXPOSITION OF THE DECALOGUE. ≈ 26 min
  98. CHAPTER XVII. PHILOSOPHY CONVEYS ONLY AN IMPERFECT KNOWLEDGE OF GOD. ≈ 22 min
  99. CHAPTER XVIII. THE USE OF PHILOSOPHY TO THE GNOSTIC. ≈ 11 min
  100. CHAPTER I. THE GNOSTIC A TRUE WORSHIPPER OF GOD, AND UNJUSTLY CALUMNIATED BY UNBELIEVERS AS AN ATHEIST. ≈ 7 min
  101. CHAPTER II. THE SON THE RULER AND SAVIOUR OF ALL. ≈ 14 min
  102. CHAPTER III. THE GNOSTIC AIMS AT THE NEAREST LIKENESS POSSIBLE TO GOD AND HIS SON. ≈ 17 min
  103. CHAPTER IV. THE HEATHENS MADE GODS LIKE THEMSELVES, WHENCE SPRINGS ALL SUPERSTITION. ≈ 9 min
  104. CHAPTER V. THE HOLY SOUL A MORE EXCELLENT TEMPLE THAN ANY EDIFICE BUILT BY MAN. ≈ 5 min
  105. CHAPTER VI. PRAYERS AND PRAISE FROM A PURE MIND, CEASELESSLY OFFERED, FAR BETTER THAN SACRIFICES. ≈ 12 min
  106. CHAPTER VII. WHAT SORT OF PRAYER THE GNOSTIC EMPLOYS, AND HOW IT IS HEARD BY GOD. ≈ 32 min
  107. CHAPTER VIII. THE GNOSTIC SO ADDICTED TO TRUTH AS NOT TO NEED TO USE AN OATH. ≈ 4 min
  108. CHAPTER IX. THOSE WHO TEACH OTHERS, OUGHT TO EXCEL IN VIRTUES. ≈ 5 min
  109. CHAPTER X. STEPS TO PERFECTION. ≈ 10 min
  110. CHAPTER XI. DESCRIPTION OF THE GNOSTIC'S LIFE. ≈ 17 min
  111. CHAPTER XII. THE TRUE GNOSTIC IS BENEFICENT, CONTINENT, AND DESPISES WORLDLY THINGS. ≈ 28 min
  112. CHAPTER XIII. DESCRIPTION OF THE GNOSTIC CONTINUED. ≈ 7 min
  113. CHAPTER XIV. DESCRIPTION OF THE GNOSTIC FURNISHED BY AN EXPOSITION OF 1 COR. VI. 1, ETC. ≈ 12 min
  114. CHAPTER XV. THE OBJECTION TO JOIN THE CHURCH ON ACCOUNT OF THE DIVERSITY OF HERESIES ANSWERED. ≈ 9 min
  115. CHAPTER XVI. SCRIPTURE THE CRITERION BY WHICH TRUTH AND HERESY ARE DISTINGUISHED. ≈ 27 min
  116. CHAPTER XVII. THE TRADITION OF THE CHURCH PRIOR TO THAT OF THE HERESIES. ≈ 5 min
  117. CHAPTER XVIII. THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN CLEAN AND UNCLEAN ANIMALS IN THE LAW SYMBOLICAL OF THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN THE CH ≈ 5 min
  118. CHAPTER I. THE OBJECT OF PHILOSOPHICAL AND THEOLOGICAL INQUIRY—THE DISCOVERY OF TRUTH. ≈ 3 min
  119. CHAPTER II. THE NECESSITY OF PERSPICUOUS DEFINITION. ≈ 3 min
  120. CHAPTER III. DEMONSTRATION DEFINED. ≈ 8 min
  121. CHAPTER IV. TO PREVENT AMBIGUITY, WE MUST BEGIN WITH CLEAR DEFINITION. ≈ 13 min
  122. CHAPTER V. APPLICATION OF DEMONSTRATION TO SCEPTICAL SUSPENSE OF JUDGMENT. ≈ 4 min
  123. CHAPTER VI. DEFINITIONS, GENERA, AND SPECIES. ≈ 10 min
  124. CHAPTER VII. ON THE CAUSES OF DOUBT OR ASSENT. ≈ 2 min
  125. CHAPTER VIII. THE METHOD OF CLASSIFYING THINGS AND NAMES. ≈ 5 min
  126. CHAPTER IX. ON THE DIFFERENT KINDS OF CAUSES. ≈ 19 min
  127. I. INDEX OF TEXTS. ≈ 57 min
  128. II.—INDEX OF SUBJECTS FORMALLY OR INCIDENTALLY CONSIDERED. ≈ 162 min
AuthorClement of Alexandria
LanguageEnglish
EraClassic
CategoriesEarly Church · Christian Classics
Length128 chapters · ≈ 25 h 57 min read
FormatsWeb Book · PDF
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