Some Account of the Writings and Opinions of Clement of AlexandriaJ.G. & F. Rivington, 1835 - 476 pages |
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Page 322 - Mars' hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious. For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.
Page 383 - Then the twelve called the multitude of the disciples unto them, and said, It is not reason that we should leave the word of God, and serve tables.
Page 12 - Moses and all the prophets, and miracles of the merciful and beneficent kind, open the eyes of the blind and the ears of the deaf...
Page 13 - Hebrews like a servant maid: he spoke to them by Moses, and Isaiah, and the whole prophetic choir. — But he speaks to us directly by himself. He is made man, that we may learn from man how man may become God. Is it not then strange that God should invite us to virtue, and that we should slight the benefit, and put aside the proffered salvation ?
Page 55 - When I WAS a child, I thought as a child, — I spake as a child, — I understood as a child; but when I became a man, I put away childish things.
Page 260 - By salvation I mean, not barely, according to the vulgar notion, deliverance from hell, or going to heaven : but a present deliverance from sin, a restoration of the soul to its primitive health, its original purity ; a recovery of the divine nature ; the renewal of our souls after the image of God, in righteousness and true holiness, in justice, mercy, and truth.
Page 81 - The eternal regions. Lowly reverent Towards either throne they bow, and to the ground With solemn adoration down they cast Their crowns inwove with amarant and gold ; Immortal amarant, a flower which once In Paradise, fast by the tree of life, Began to bloom...
Page 190 - ... which the Gnostic edifice is reared, but knowledge is superior to faith, and this is his distinguishing possession. This knowledge Clement makes almost boundless. It is " conversant with things beyond the world, the objects of the intellect, and even with things more spiritual, which eye hath not seen, nor ear heard, nor had it entered into the heart of man to conceive until our Teacher revealed the truth concerning them to us.
Page 12 - converted stones and beasts into men." " He who sprang from David, yet was before David, the Word of God, disdaining inanimate instruments, the harp and lyre, adapts this world, and the little world, man, both his soul and body, to the Holy Spirit, and thus celebrates God. — What then does the instrument, the Word of God, the Lord, the New Song mean ? To open the eyes of the blind, and the ears of the deaf; to guide the lame and the wanderer to righteousness; to show God to foolish man ; to put...
Page 371 - Binding his foal unto the vine, and his ass's colt unto the choice vine ; he washed his garments in wine, and his clothes in the blood of grapes: his eyes shall be red with wine, and his teeth white with milk.