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Stromata

Clement of Alexandria, ANF 2

Book 1, Preface-The Author’s Object-The Utility of Written Compositions
Book 1, Objection to the Number of Extracts from Philosophical Writings in These Books…
Book 1, 3. Against the Sophists
Book 1, 4. Human Arts as Well as Divine Knowledge Proceed from God
Book 1, 5. Philosophy the Handmaid of Theology
Book 1, 6. The Benefit of Culture
Book 1, 7. The Eclectic Philosophy Paves the Way for Divine Virtue
Book 1, 8. The Sophistical Arts Useless
Book 1, Human Knowledge Necessary for the Understanding of the Scriptures
Book 1, 10. To Act Well of Greater Consequence Than to Speak Well
Book 1, 11. What is the Philosophy Which the Apostle Bids Us Shun?
Book 1, 12. The Mysteries of the Faith Not to Be Divulged to All
Book 1, 13. All Sects of Philosophy Contain a Germ of Truth
Book 1, 14. Succession of Philosophers in Greece
Book 1, The Greek Philosophy in Great Part Derived from the Barbarians
Book 1, 16. That the Inventors of Other Arts Were Mostly Barbarians
Book 1, On the Saying of the Saviour, “All that Came Before Me Were Thieves and Robbers.”
Book 1, He Illustrates the Apostle’s Saying, “I Will Destroy the Wisdom of the Wise.”
Book 1, That the Philosophers Have Attained to Some Portion of Truth
Book 1, In What Respect Philosophy Contributes to the Comprehension of Divine Truth
Book 1, The Jewish Institutions and Laws of Far Higher Antiquity Than the Philosophy of…
Book 1, 22. On the Greek Translation of the Old Testament
Book 1, 23. The Age, Birth, and Life of Moses
Book 1, 24. How Moses Discharged the Part of a Military Leader
Book 1, 25. Plato an Imitator of Moses in Framing Laws
Book 1, Moses Rightly Called a Divine Legislator, And, Though Inferior to Christ, Far…
Book 1, The Law, Even in Correcting and Punishing, Aims at the Good of Men
Book 1, 28. The Fourfold Division of the Mosaic Law
Book 1, 29. The Greeks But Children Compared with the Hebrews
Book 2, 1. Introductory
Book 2, 2. The Knowledge of God Can Be Attained Only Through Faith
Book 2, 3. Faith Not a Product of Nature
Book 2, 4. Faith the Foundation of All Knowledge
Book 2, He Proves by Several Examples that the Greeks Drew from the Sacred Writers
Book 2, 6. The Excellence and Utility of Faith
Book 2, 7. The Utility of Fear. Objections Answered
Book 2, The Vagaries of Basilides and Valentinus as to Fear Being the Cause of Things
Book 2, 9. The Connection of the Christian Virtues
Book 2, 10. To What the Philosopher Applies Himself
Book 2, 11. The Knowledge Which Comes Through Faith the Surest of All
Book 2, 12. Twofold Faith
Book 2, 13. On First and Second Repentance
Book 2, 14. How a Thing May Be Involuntary
Book 2, On the Different Kinds of Voluntary Actions, and the Sins Thence Proceeding
Book 2, How We are to Explain the Passages of Scripture Which Ascribe to God Human…
Book 2, 17. On the Various Kinds of Knowledge
Book 2, The Mosaic Law the Fountain of All Ethics, and the Source from Which the Greeks…
Book 2, The True Gnostic is an Imitator of God, Especially in Beneficence
Book 2, 20. The True Gnostic Exercises Patience and Self-Restraint
Book 2, 21. Opinions of Various Philosophers on the Chief Good
Book 2, Plato’s Opinion, that the Chief Good Consists in Assimilation to God, and Its…
Book 2, 23. On Marriage
Book 3, The Valentinians, who hold that the union of man and woman is derived from the…
Book 3, But the followers of Carpocrates and Epiphanes think that wives should be common …
Book 3, If Plato himself and the Pythagoreans, as indeed later also the followers of…
Book 3, Of the heretics we mentioned Marcion of Pontus as forbidding the use of this…
Book 3, It is not our aim to pursue this subject in further detail and to mention further…
Book 3, To those, on the other hand, who under a pious cloak blaspheme by their…
Book 3, The human ideal of continence, I mean that which is set forth by Greek…
Book 3, Those who hold that for them there is no difference between right and wrong force…
Book 3, Those who are opposed to God’s creation, disparaging it under the fair name of …
Book 3, But who are the two or three gathered in the name of Christ in whose midst the…
Book 3, The demonstration of these matters being concluded, let us now quote all the…
Book 3, If by agreement marriage relations are suspended for a time to give opportunity…
Book 3, Such are the arguments of Julius Cassianus, the originator of docetism. At any…
Book 3, He then does violence to Paul, making him hold that birth originated from deceit…
Book 3, And again when the apostle says, “It is good for a man not to touch a woman; but…
Book 3, When Jeremiah says, “Cursed be the day in which I was born, and let it not be…
Book 3, If birth is something evil, let the blasphemers say that the Lord who shared in…
Book 3, Some, then, as we have shown, have tried to go beyond what is right and the…
Book 4, 1. Order of Contents
Book 4, 2. The Meaning of the Name Stromata or Miscellanies
Book 4, 3. The True Excellence of Man
Book 4, 4. The Praises of Martyrdom
Book 4, 5. On Contempt for Pain, Poverty, and Other External Things
Book 4, 6. Some Points in the Beatitudes
Book 4, 7. The Blessedness of the Martyr
Book 4, Women as Well as Men, Slaves as Well as Freemen, Candidates for the Martyr’s Crown
Book 4, 9. Christ’s Sayings Respecting Martyrdom
Book 4, 10. Those Who Offered Themselves for Martyrdom Reproved
Book 4, The Objection, Why Do You Suffer If God Cares for You, Answered
Book 4, 12. Basilides’ Idea of Martyrdom Refuted
Book 4, 13. Valentinian’s Vagaries About the Abolition of Death Refuted
Book 4, 14. The Love of All, Even of Our Enemies
Book 4, 15. On Avoiding Offence
Book 4, Passages of Scripture Respecting the Constancy, Patience, and Love of the Martyrs
Book 4, Passages from Clement’s Epistle to the Corinthians on Martyrdom
Book 4, 18. On Love, and the Repressing of Our Desires
Book 4, 20. A Good Wife
Book 4, 21. Description of the Perfect Man, or Gnostic
Book 4, The True Gnostic Does Good, Not from Fear of Punishment or Hope of Reward, But…
Book 4, 23. The Same Subject Continued
Book 4, 24. The Reason and End of Divine Punishments
Book 4, 25. True Perfection Consists in the Knowledge and Love of God
Book 4, How the Perfect Man Treats the Body and the Things of the World
Book 5, 1. On Faith
Book 5, 2. On Hope
Book 5, 3. The Objects of Faith and Hope Perceived by the Mind Alone
Book 5, Divine Things Wrapped Up in Figures Both in the Sacred and in Heathen Writers
Book 5, 5. On the Symbols of Pythagoras
Book 5, 6. The Mystic Meaning of the Tabernacle and Its Furniture
Book 5, 7. The Egyptian Symbols and Enigmas of Sacred Things
Book 5, 8. The Use of the Symbolic Style by Poets and Philosophers
Book 5, 9. Reasons for Veiling the Truth in Symbols
Book 5, The Opinion of the Apostles on Veiling the Mysteries of the Faith
Book 5, Abstraction from Material Things Necessary in Order to Attain to the True…
Book 5, 12. God Cannot Be Embraced in Words or by the Mind
Book 5, The Knowledge of God a Divine Gift, According to the Philosophers
Book 5, 14. Greek Plagiarism from the Hebrews
Book 6, 1. Plan
Book 6, The Subject of Plagiarisms Resumed. The Greeks Plagiarized from One Another
Book 6, Plagiarism by the Greeks of the Miracles Related in the Sacred Books of the…
Book 6, The Greeks Drew Many of Their Philosophical Tenets from the Egyptian and Indian…
Book 6, 5. The Greeks Had Some Knowledge of the True God
Book 6, 6. The Gospel Was Preached to Jews and Gentiles in Hades
Book 6, 7. What True Philosophy Is, and Whence So Called
Book 6, 8. Philosophy is Knowledge Given by God
Book 6, 9. The Gnostic Free of All Perturbations of the Soul
Book 6, The Gnostic Avails Himself of the Help of All Human Knowledge
Book 6, The Mystical Meanings in the Proportions of Numbers, Geometrical Ratios, and Music
Book 6, Human Nature Possesses an Adaptation for Perfection; The Gnostic Alone Attains It
Book 6, Degrees of Glory in Heaven Corresponding with the Dignities of the Church Below
Book 6, 14. Degrees of Glory in Heaven
Book 6, 15. Different Degrees of Knowledge
Book 6, 16. Gnostic Exposition of the Decalogue
Book 6, 17. Philosophy Conveys Only an Imperfect Knowledge of God
Book 6, 18. The Use of Philosophy to the Gnostic
Book 7, The Gnostic a True Worshipper of God, and Unjustly Calumniated by Unbelievers as…
Book 7, 2. The Son the Ruler and Saviour of All
Book 7, The Gnostic Aims at the Nearest Likeness Possible to God and His Son
Book 7, The Heathens Made Gods Like Themselves, Whence Springs All Superstition
Book 7, The Holy Soul a More Excellent Temple Than Any Edifice Built by Man
Book 7, Prayers and Praise from a Pure Mind, Ceaselessly Offered, Far Better Than…
Book 7, What Sort of Prayer the Gnostic Employs, and How It is Heard by God
Book 7, The Gnostic So Addicted to Truth as Not to Need to Use an Oath
Book 7, 9. Those Who Teach Others, Ought to Excel in Virtues
Book 7, 10. Steps to Perfection
Book 7, 11. Description of the Gnostic’s Life
Book 7, The True Gnostic is Beneficent, Continent, and Despises Worldly Things
Book 7, 13. Description of the Gnostic Continued
Book 7, Description of the Gnostic Furnished by an Exposition of 1 Corinthians 6:1, Etc
Book 7, The Objection to Join the Church on Account of the Diversity of Heresies Answered
Book 7, Scripture the Criterion by Which Truth and Heresy are Distinguished
Book 7, 17. The Tradition of the Church Prior to that of the Heresies
Book 7, The Distinction Between Clean and Unclean Animals in the Law Symbolical of the…
Book 8, The Object of Philosophical and Theological Inquiry-The Discovery of Truth
Book 8, 2. The Necessity of Perspicuous Definition
Book 8, 3. Demonstration Defined
Book 8, 4. To Prevent Ambiguity, We Must Begin with Clear Definition
Book 8, Application of Demonstration to Sceptical Suspense of Judgment
Book 8, 6. Definitions, Genera, and Species
Book 8, 7. On the Causes of Doubt or Assent
Book 8, 8. The Method of Classifying Things and Names
Book 8, 9. On the Different Kinds of Cause
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